For the Desegregating DFW Oral History Project. Civil Rights activist and poet. Childhood in West Texas and Dallas-Fort Worth; family history; life during segregation; education; civil rights activism; process of desegregation; attending North Texas State University (now UNT); experiences with racism; poetry; John F. Kennedy assassination; church…

For the Air America Oral History Project. Marine veteran and Air America fixed-wing pilot. Navy flight training; experiences in peace-time Marine Corps; flying for Air America; interaction with the “Customer;” interaction with the Hmong; various missions; transfer to Southern Air Transport; rumors about Air America; thoughts on U.S. involvement in…

His experiences with the 35th Infantry Regiment at Schofield Barracks during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.

For the Mexican-American Women’s Educational Experience Oral History Project. Childhood memories of attending school; having children; attending college.

Reservations, Ticketing, Sales and Advertising. The in-flight and ground experiences of Braniff International Airways by Abra Schnur through a collection of former Braniff employee interviews. Interviewees include flight attendants, pilots, ticket agents, ground crew, executives and family members. Content includes personal reflections of…

Dr. Victor Rodriguez spotlights significant insights into his storied career through five eras: his early all-Hispanic elementary school training; his continued study and budding athletic prowess in the Edna, TX, school district; his Victoria Junior College athletic achievements and learning; his higher education, Geezle membership, and track…

Events of the week of the “Texas Blackout” (February 14 - 20, 2021) as experienced by Mari Collins, a resident of a neighborhood in North Fort Worth, Texas, that experienced a power outage for over 60 hours.

For the Women in Business Oral History Project. Entrepreneur and author. The interview spans her early life and education, as well as her changes in career from accounting, and sales, to running her own business and writing her books. She discusses her motivation to empower women in business using her tagline “Women want to be treated equally, not…

His experiences and personal views as a member of the Sixty-fourth Legislature. House speakership race; appropriations; committee appointments; strip mining bill; public school financing; public utilities legislation; constitutional revision; comments about Governor Dolph Briscoe.

For the DFW Metroplex Immigrants Oral History Project. Birth, childhood, and education in Puebla and Cholula, Mexico; family history, including grandparents’ migration from Spain and Italy; college experience at Universidad de las Americas; discovery of music history as a discipline of study; first impressions of U.S. on family visits; decision to…

Educator. His experiences and role in the desegregation of North Texas State College, 1955-56. Rejection for admission; Atkins v. Matthews; early civil rights activities with NAACP Youth Council in Dallas; comments about Juanita Craft, Thurgood Marshall, W. H. Durham, and other civil rights leaders; comments about J. C. Matthews, Arthur Sampley,…

Emeritus professor of economics, University of North Texas. Family background; educational experiences at the University of Texas, Austin; membership in League for Industrial Democracy; winter lambing in West Texas; experiences during the Great Depression; view of economics and sociology department at North Texas, 1939; experiences in U.S. Army…

Retired printer. His experiences as a prisoner-of-war of the Germans during World War II. Capture and interrogation, November, 1944; Stalag 12-A, Limburg, Germany; civilian hostility; Stalag 3-B, Furstenburg, 1944-45; forced March to Stalag 3-A; Luckenwalde, 1945; liberation by Russian troops.

His experiences while growing up in Hamilton Park, Texas, and attending the Hamilton Park School, 1951-64; the “Buy Out.”

His experiences in the China-Burma-India Theater during World War II. His volunteering for the draft, 1943; assignment to Burma, 1944; attachment to Merrill’s Marauders (5307th Composite Unit [Provisional]); combat around Myitkyina, Burma, 1944; medical evacuation to Ledo; assignment to the Mars Task Force (5332nd Brigade [Provisional]), October,…

Survivor of the siege of Corregidor. His experiences as a prisoner-of-war of the Japanese during World War II. Fall of Corregidor and capture; Bilibid Prison, Manila, 1942; Cabanatuan, 1942-44; hell ship to Japan, 1942; Ashio, Honshu, 1944-45; liberation.

Her views concerning the impact of women on the development of the Republican Party in Texas, 1960-90. John Tower’s first senatorial campaign; activities of Northwood, Texas, Republican Women’s Club; Texas Federation of Republican Women; work for U.S. Congressman Jim Collins; personal political philosophy.

Pastor. His experiences while aboard the destroyer tender USS Dobbin during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.

His experiences and personal views as a member of the Second Special Session of the Sixty-fifth Texas Legislature. Influence of Proposition 13 in California; opposition to Special Session; repeal of sales tax on utility bills; modification of inheritance tax exemptions; ad valorem tax; taxation on agricultural land; Peveto Bill.

Printer. His experiences while attending the Texas International Pop Festival, Lewisville, Texas, August 30-September 1, 1969. Generational conflicts with his parents; guitar lessons as a teenager in Lubbock, Texas; appeal of the Beatles and their music; high school friends and activities; changing clothing styles in the Sixties; enrollment at…

His experiences at the West Loch ammunition dump during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.

His experiences while aboard the battleship USS California during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.

His experiences aboard the repair ship USS Vestal during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.

His experiences while aboard the cruiser USS New Orleans during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.

Operator of grocery store, repair shop, and rental cottages, Mountain Home, Texas. Family background; education in Arkansas and Texas; training as auto mechanic; employment as ranch hand near Palacios, Texas; experiences in motor pool of Air Service at Ellington Field, Texas, 1918; employment as truck mechanic with Shriner Hodges company in…