For the Postpartum Depression and Maternal Mental Health Oral History Project. Jeanne Watson Driscoll is a retired clinical nurse scientist with a focus on postpartum mental health. She discusses her own history of postpartum obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) in the 1970s, her work in breastfeeding counseling and the Boston Association of…

His version of the Crystal City Incident, 1963; Mexican-American relations.

SMITH, GRADY LEROY, JR., President, Antiquestone, Inc., Bertram, Texas. Family background; experiences working with father for Trafton Tile Company, Austin; self-employment in the tile installation business, 1966; description of tile installation procedures; entry into tile manufacturing business, 1967; partnership with James Dyke, Jr. And Sr. to…

His experiences while employed by the Civilian Conservation Corps during the Great Depression. Childhood near Jacksboro, Texas; joining the CCC; assignment to a camp near Cleburne, Texas; description of camp; life in camp.

For the DFW Metroplex Immigrants Oral History Project. Mexican-born immigrant to Denton, Texas, and UNT professor. Childhood in Mexico City; parents’ desire to relocate family to U.S.; decision to attend Graceland College in Lamoni, Iowa; culture shock and homesickness; marriage to Curt Beckman; decision to earn Ph.D. in Spanish Literature from…

Survivor of the Bataan Death March. His experiences as a prisoner-of-war of the Japanese during World War II. Fall of Bataan and capture; Bataan Death March; Camp O’Donnell, 1942; Bilibid Prison, Manila, 1942; Cabanatuan, 1942-44; hell ship to Japan, 1944; Onomichi, Honshu, 1944-45; liberation.

His experiences in the Southwest Pacific Theater during World War II; his youth in Dallas during the Great Depression; his decision to join the 112th Cavalry, 1939, at age sixteen; mobilization and assignment to Fort Bliss, El Paso, Texas, 1940; Louisiana Maneuvers, summer, 1941; assignment to Fort Clark, Brackettville, Texas, and duty along the…

Businessman. His experiences as an officer in the European Theater during World War II. Pre-war stateside training; forming and training the 741st Tank Battalion; amphibious training in England prior to the Normandy invasion; assignment as operations officer for the 741st; the fate of the DD tanks on D-Day; assignment as executive officer for the…

Survivor of the Bataan Death March. His experiences as a prisoner-of-war of the Japanese during World War II. Fall of Bataan and capture; Bataan Death March; Camp O’Donnell, 1942; Cabanatuan, 1942-44; Bilibid Prison, Manila, 1944; hell ship to Japan, 1944; Fukuoka, Kyushu, 1945; liberation.

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

Farmers-ranchers. Their recollections concerning the Italian immigrant experience and their life as second generation Italians around Pueblo, Colorado. Education; old world customs; nativism; development of the Ciruli Brothers produce business; farming and ranching activities.

For the Tarrant County War Veterans Oral History Project. World War II veteran. World War II veteran. Childhood in Dallas, Texas, medical school at Baylor College of Medicine in Dallas, and internship at the University of Michigan prior to enlistment in the Army Air Corp as a surgeon with the Third Air Commando Group. Experiences in the…

His experiences while employed by the Civilian Conservation Corps during the Great Depression. Childhood in Pennsylvania; joining the CCC; assignment to Camp 74 in Clearfield, Pennsylvania and Camp 70 in Renovo, Pennsylvania; description of camps; life in camps.

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

For the Quakertown Oral History Project. Local news media personality and third-generation descendant of residents of Denton’s historic all-black Quakertown neighborhood. Childhood in Denton; education in Denton public schools and at UNT; career in broadcast journalism; memories of great-grandmother Othella Hill, great-grandfather “Dollar Bill”…

His experiences while employed by the Civilian Conservation Corps during the Great Depression. Childhood in Fort Worth, Texas; joining the CCC; assignment to a camp in Redvale, Colorado; camp move to Paradox Valley, Colorado; description of camp; life in camp.

Executive, Dr Pepper Company. His and experiences concerning the development of the Dr Pepper Company. Discovery of the Dr Pepper formula and roles of Charles Cortes Alderton, Wade Morrison, and R. S. Lazenby; transfer of company headquarters from Waco to Dallas, 1922; financial difficulties during 1920s; his employment with Dr Pepper, 1931;…

His experiences at the Submarine Base during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.

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

Owner and operator, Fultz’s News Agency, Denton, Texas. Family background; comments on development of Sweetwater and Abilene; selling newspapers in West Texas; comments on Depression period in Abilene; magazine delivery business in Abilene; operation of wholesale magazine business in Denton, 1939; retail operation, 1941; business and social…

Homemaker. Her observations on the settlement and development of the Coastal Bend area of South Texas. Rural social life; Ku Klux Klan; Mexican-Anglo relations.

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

For the Tarrant County War Veterans Oral History Project. Cold War-era Air Force veteran. Childhood in El Paso, Texas, and Tucson, Arizona; memories of Great Depression and World War II; father’s service in World War I; decision to attend University of Arizona and enter the U.S. Air Force ROTC program; assignment to Lackland AFB; training in…

His experiences and personal views as a member of the Sixty-first and Sixty-second Legislatures. One-year versus two-year budget; tax legislation; University of Texas at Dallas; teacher pay raise; anti-riot legislation; state sales tax; “grocery tax”; destination tax; comments about Lieutenant Governor Ben Barnes; deficit financing; corporate…

His experiences and personal views as a member of the Sixty-third Legislature. Freshman senators; comments about Lieutenant Governor Bill Hobby; committee appointments; reform legislation; comments about Governor Dolph Briscoe.