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

His experiences as a P-51 pilot in the Pacific Theater during World War II. Decision to enlist, February, 1943; basic training, Jefferson Barracks, Missouri, 1943; college preparatory courses, Michigan State College, East Lansing, 1943; pre-flight training, Randolph Field, San Antonio, Texas, 1943; primary flight training, Vernon, Texas, 1943;…

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

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

Factory worker. Her experiences growing up in Wrightsville, Pennsylvania and employment at York Safe and Lock Company during World War II. Description of family farm on outskirts of Wrightsville; comments on dairy farming; attendance at Wrightsville High School; description of early work as a seamer at Standard Garment; employment at Hollis…

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

His experiences concerning the desegregation of intercollegiate athletics at North Texas State College, 1956.

Community activist. Her experiences concerning the activities of the Denton Christian Women’s Inter-Racial Fellowship during the 1960s and 1970s. Segregation in Denton; street paving in the African-American section of Denton; Denton Christian Preschool; desegregation of public schools; meeting activities; social activities; comments about former…

Judge (36th Judicial District of Texas). His observations on the development of the Coastal Bend area of South Texas, 1940-70. Criminal offenses in Aransas County; justices of the peace; appointment of county commissioners; selection of grand jurors; comments about Governors Dan Moody, James Allred, Allan Shivers, and John Connally; South Texas…

Attorney, former Sergeant-at-Arms of the Texas House of Representatives, public speaker, nephew of former Governor Coke Stevenson. His experiences as Sergeant-at-Arms, 1949-53; Stevenson-Johnson senatorial race of 1948; comments about Coke Stevenson.

His experiences as a prisoner-of-war of the Japanese during World War II. Struggle for Corregidor; surviving the Palawan massacre, 1944.

For the Skylab Oral History Project. NASA flight controller, communications officer, and manager. Childhood in Lufkin, Orange, and Huntington, Tex.; education at Stephen F. Austin State University and Lamar State College of Technology; career as mathematics teacher at Port Neches-Groves High School and in U.S. Air Force; decision to apply for a…

One of the founders of Bomber Bait Company, Gainesville, Texas. Family background; employment by father selling appliances, butane gas systems, and sporting goods in Gainesville, 1934; sale of butane business, 1944; experimentation with fish baits; partnership with Ike Walker in founding Bomber Bait Company; growth and increase in personnel; sales…

Banker. His experiences as an employee of the Dallas regional office of the Home Owners Loan Corporation during the New Deal. Mortgage buying; loan amortization; insurance; home improvements; accounting procedures; politics and patronage; taxes and appraising; foreclosures; loan servicing.

Manager, McClurkan Properties; manager, Industrial Credit Corporation; owner and operator of insurance company, Denton, Texas. Family background; education; credit manager for wholesale grocery; organizing personal (merchant endorsed) loan company, 1938, and its growth, problems, strengths; McClurkan Properties; views on local ownership vs. chain…

His experiences with G Company, 27th Infantry Regiment, at Schofield Barracks during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.

Her recollections and experiences as an employee at the Red River Army Depot, Texarkana, Arkansas, during World War II. Hiring procedures; promotion policies; civilian housing; rationing; employee morale; union activity; promotions and sexual harassment.

Banker, chairman of board, First State Bank of Denton. Family background; father’s role in founding First State Bank of Denton; education; work with various federal and state agencies; early experiences in banking; presidency of Texas Bankers Association; Depression; evolution of banking practices and laws; views on local ownership of banks vs.…

Professional economist. His experiences as one of the principal persons in the Rainey controversy at the University of Texas, 1944-45. His sympathies for New Deal labor legislation; being accused of pro-communist leanings; role of Dallas Morning News; investigations by Board of Regents and his dismissal; support by President Homer Rainey; role of…

His experiences as an Army officer in the Civilian Conservation Corps during the Great Depression. Childhood in Alabama; assignment to the CCC as a junior officer in 4th Corps, Company 441 in Greer, South Carolina; description of camp; life in camp.

For the DFW Metroplex Immigrants Oral History Project. Israeli-born immigrant to Dallas area. Her immigrant experience; Israeli history; modern Middle East; Intifada; U.S. immigration policy; education at Brookhaven College; Judaism; Jewish sects; bi-cultural relationships.

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

His experiences while employed by the Civilian Conservation Corps during the Great Depression. Childhood in Garland and Wylie, Texas; joining the CCC; assignment to Company 869 in Farmersville, Texas; camp move to Kaufman, Texas; description of camps; life in camps.

Schoolteacher. Her views concerning the significance and impact of women on the development of the Republican Party in Texas, 1946-93. Acceptance of African-American women by Texas Republicans; her political philosophy; women’s issues.

His experiences with B Company, Barracks Detachment, at the Marine Barracks between Pearl Harbor and Hickam Field during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.