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McCOLM, George L. (b. 1911)

Interview ID#
OH 1095
Agricultural expert. His experiences in the Pacific Theater during World War II. Education at Kansas State College; experiences in agricultural marketing research; employment with the Production Marketing Administration of the Agricultural Adjustment Administration; employment at Topaz Relocation Center for Japanese Americans, 1942-44; induction…

MIERS, Wallace (b. 1919)

Interview ID#
OH 0726
His experiences while aboard the battleship USS Nevada during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.

MOORE, G. A. (b. 1938)

Interview ID#
OH 0559
Football coach. His experiences as a member of the football team during the desegregation of athletics at North Texas State College, 1956.

NANCE, Freddie M. (b. 1923)

Interview ID#
OH 0895
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Her experiences as a resident of Hamilton Park, Texas, 1956-90. Segregated education in Dallas; African-American housing in Dallas; employment history; decision to buy home in Hamilton Park; Hamilton Park School; home improvements; social life; church activities; school desegregation; Interorganizational Council; the “Buy Out.”

TANIGUCHI, Alan (b. 1922)

Interview ID#
OH 1078
Architect. His experiences as a Japanese-American internee at the Gila River, Arizona, relocation camp during World War II. Pre-war anti-Japanese sentiment around Fort Stockton, California; his father’s activities with Japanese patriotic organizations; liquidation of farm property; relocation to Gila River; camp life at Gila River; resettlement to…

TIPTON, A. C. (b. 1923)

Interview ID#
OH 1119
His experiences while aboard the light cruiser USS Honolulu during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.

VALENTA, Marcus (b. 1905)

Interview ID#
OH 0416
Catholic chaplain. His experiences at the post chapel at Schofield Barracks during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.

WEBB, Leonard (b. 1920)

Interview ID#
OH 0773
His experiences at Staff Headquarters, 14th Naval District, Honolulu, Hawaii, during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.

WIDMER, Robert J., Sr. (b. 1921)

Interview ID#
OH 1568
His experiences as a B-24 pilot in the European theater during World War II; also his experiences as a prisoner-of-war of the Germans. His youth during the Great Depression in Toledo, Ohio; college at the University of Toledo and Columbia University; his decision to enlist in the Aviation Cadets, December, 1941; basic training, Santa Ana,…

WOMACK, Beryl Barton (b. 1923)

Interview ID#
OH 1475
Her experiences in England during the Blitz in World War II; her courtship and marriage to Lieutenant Travis Womack, U. S. Army, 1944-45. Her early education; comments about Winston Churchill’s inspirational speeches during the Battle of Britain; wartime rationing; the bombing of her parents’ home in Nottinghamshire; attendance at Domestic Science…

ZALE CORPORATION

Interview ID#
OHB 0082
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A university of North Texas Ph.D. Dissertation written by Tommy W. Stringer and based upon oral history interviews; history of Jews and discrimination against them in Tsarist Russia; Zhid; shtetl; immigration difficulties; immigration policies of the united States; arrival of Sam Zalevsky in Texas, 1910; Jewish communities in Texas; Ku Klux Klan…

PARSONS, Sara-Jayne (b. 1969)

Interview ID#
OH 1249
Graduate student. Her experiences in working with women's issues at the University of North Texas, 1993-97. Early education on the Isle of Man and in England; family background; searching for career choices; college years at Oxford Polytechnic College; student activism at Oxford Polytechnic; origins of her interest in women's issues; scholarship…

PERRY, H. Grady (b. 1894)

Interview ID#
OH 0053
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Former member of the Texas House of Representatives, 1920-22, 1946-50; journalist; brother-in-law to former Governor Coke Stevenson. His experiences in the Thirty-seventh Legislature; comments about former Governors Pat Neff, James and Miriam Ferguson, and Coke Stevenson; comments about former Senator Joe Bailey and Sam Johnson (Lyndon Johnson’s…

SCHWARTZ, A. R. (b. 1926)

Interview ID#
OH 0060
Attorney, member of the Texas State Senate from Galveston, Democrat. His experiences and personal views as a member of the Sixty-first Legislature. One-year versus two-year budget; revenue bills; welfare spending; need for constitutional revision; urban-rural conflict; minimum wages for migrant workers; education legislation; unrest on college…

SHERRARD, Paul J. (b. 1903)

Interview ID#
OH 0756
His experiences as a pharmacist’s mate at the Ford Island Naval Air Station during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941; also includes his recollections about the sinking of the USS Panay, 1937, the U. S. Marine expedition in Nicaragua, 1925, and the Battle of Midway, 1942.

SMITH, Ikard (b. 1919)

Interview ID#
OHB 0079
President and senior chairman of board, Mcclurkan’s, Wichita Falls, Texas. Family background; father’s employment with McClurkan’s store in Denton and Krum; father’s experiences opening and managing McClurkan’s store in Wichita Falls, 1907; comments on grandfather W. S. Ikard’s ranching activities in Clay County and relationship with Comanche…

SPARKS, Mrs. Walter (b. 1905)

Interview ID#
OH 0050
Homemaker. Observations on land speculation, settlement, and development around Sinton-Portland, Texas, 1910-30. Agrarian life.

STEWART, Robert “Bob” (b. 1939)

Interview ID#
OH 1490
Jazz musician. His comments about the jazz scene in Fort Worth, Texas, 1950-2000. His early interest in music; his first drum set; his first professional job with the Shorty Clements Band, 1953-57; college at Huston-Tillotson College, Austin, Texas, 1957-60; his employment as a disk jockey in Cleburne, Texas, and Fort Worth; his definition of jazz…

REDIN, Harley (b. 1919)

Interview ID#
OH 1422
Educator. His experiences as a PBJ (B-25) pilot n the Southwest Pacific Theater during World War II. Graduation from North Texas State Teachers College, Denton, Texas, 192; enlistment in the Navy Aviation Cadet Program, 1942; Civilian Pilot Training, 1942; primary flight training, Grand Prairie Naval Air Station, Grand Prairie, Texas, 1942;…

RICHARDSON, Milroy B. (b. 1922)

Interview ID#
OH 1463
His experiences at Wheeler Field with the 6th Pursuit Squadron, 18th Fighter Group, during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.

POWELL, Steve (b. 1945)

Interview ID#
OH 1652
For the Texas Textile Mill Oral History Project. Former employee of the Texas Textile Mill and longtime resident of McKinney, Texas. Childhood and education in McKinney public schools; work as cotton picker for local farmers; parents’ jobs in the mill; family life on “the mill block;” importance of the New Deal; memories of 1948 tornado; social…

ROSER, Robert (b. 1920)

Interview ID#
OH 1067
His experiences with the 29th Division during the invasion of Normandy in World War II.

GROVES, Doris (b. 1951)

Interview ID#
OH 1795
For the American History: Voluntary Simplicity Oral History Project. Simple life advocate. Childhood in New Jersey; family losses; discovery of the Nearings and the simple life; memories of Scott and Helen Nearing; the Good Life Center.

RODRIGUEZ, Stephanie (b. 1993)

Interview ID#
OH 1862
For the Dallas DREAMers Oral History Project. DREAM Team activist. Childhood in Mexico and Dallas, Texas; family’s immigration to the United States; difficulty travelling while undocumented or on Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA); connection to Mexican heritage; American identity; becoming American; activism and North Texas DREAM Team…

HOLCOMBE, George (b. 1933) and Wanda (b. 1940)

Interview ID#
OH 1890
Methodist pastor, educator, and civil rights activists. Childhoods; exposure to racism, discrimination, and segregation; interactions with African Americans; civil rights work in Baton Rouge, Louisiana and Chicago, Illinois; Ecumenical Institute; restrictions on women and the women’s movement; run-ins with the Ku Klux Klan; developing a model for…