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McINTIRE, J. E. (b. 1917)

Interview ID#
OH 1113
His experiences aboard the destroyer USS Dale during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.

MILLER, John M. (b. 1905)

Interview ID#
OH 1462
Pioneer aviator. His reminiscences from his career in aviation, 1920-63. Influence of the early aircraft designer Glenn Curtiss; his meeting with the aviatrix Ruth Law; influence of the book Aerobatics by Horatio Barber; his meeting with barnstorming pilot “Swanee” Taylor; Taylor’s gift of his aircraft to Miller; teaching himself to fly without…

MORRIS, JoEarl (b. 1919)

Interview ID#
OH 1337
His experiences as a B-24 bombardier in the European Theater during World War II. His education and employment in the oil industry; enlistment in the Aviation Cadet Program, 1942; basic training, Kelly Field, San Antonio, Texas, 1942; primary flight training, Victory Field, Vernon, Texas, 1942; his washing out of pilot training; ground school,…

NEVILL, Gale E. (b. 1906)

Interview ID#
OH 1391
Mechanical engineer. His experiences with the Corps of Engineers in the Pacific Theater during World War II. Pre-war job experiences; enlistment in the Corps of Engineers Reserve, 1933; service with the Civilian Conservation Corps in Arizona and Colorado, 1933-34; active duty, December, 1941; assignment to Headquarters, 3rd Army, Fort Sam Houston…

TEASLEY, Elizabeth K. (b. 1919)

Interview ID#
OH 0899
Librarian. Her experiences as a student at the Library School at North Texas State College and as a public school librarian.

TOWERY, R. Kenneth (b. 1923)

Interview ID#
OH 1075
Journalist, 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; Cabanatuan, 1942; Mukden, Manchuria, 1942-45; liberation by Russian troops.

VIVIAN, Joseph (b. 1911)

Interview ID#
OH 1006
His experiences while employed by the Civilian Conservation Corps during the Great Depression. Childhood in Central Texas; joining the CCC; assignment to Company 1803 at F-4-T near Ratcliff, Texas; description of camp; life in camp.

WELLS, Thelma (b. 1941)

Interview ID#
OH 0903
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Schoolteacher, secretary. Her experiences as a resident of Hamilton Park, Texas, 1963-79. Education; decision to buy home in Hamilton Park; substitute teaching at Hamilton Park School; church activities; desegregation and closing of Hamilton Park High School; Pacesetter; Interorganizational Council; president of Civic League; traffic access…

WILLIAMS, Joseph R. (b. 1920)

Interview ID#
OH 0871
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Physician. His experiences as a resident of Hamilton Park, Texas, in 1950s and 1960s. Childhood and education in Dallas; medical school at Meharry Medical College, Nashville, Tennessee, 1942-45; Army career; segregated housing in Dallas; discrimination against African-American physicians; dealing with the white power structure in Dallas; civil…

WOOTEN, Ben (b. 1894)

Interview ID#
OH 0029
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Banker, public servant, philanthropist. His observations on the growth and development of banking and finance in the Southwest. Service in World War I; assistant cashier of the Alba National Bank, Alba, Texas; cashier of the Farmers and Merchants Bank, Farmersville, Texas; state bank examiner; Federal Home Loan Banking System; vice-president and…

OELSCHALAEGER, Max (b. 1943)

Interview ID#
OH 1202
College professor. His experiences concerning the development of the Women's Studies Program at the University of North Texas. Early interest in women's issues; views concerning environmental ethics, eco-philosophy, and eco-feminism; ideas concerning the components for a quality women's studies program.

PEACE, Erma B. (b. 1919)

Interview ID#
OH 0907
Her experiences as a student at the Frederick Douglass Colored School, Denton, Texas, 1925-36. Family background; school facilities; school extra-curricular activities; physical layout of Frederick Douglass Colored School; comments about teachers and Principal Fred Moore; church activities; segregated public facilities in Denton.

SAVAGE, George (b. 1923)

Interview ID#
OH 1141
His experiences as a B-29 pilot in the Pacific Theater during World War II. Bombing missions from Guam to Japan, 1945; Japanese fighter and flak opposition; fire bomb raids.

SHAPIRO, Florence (b. 1948)

Interview ID#
OH 0976
State legislator. Her views concerning the impact and significance of women on the rise of the Republican Party in Texas, 1970-93. Initial involvement in local politics; election to Plano, Texas, City Council, 1979-90; election as Mayor of Plano, 1990; election to Texas legislature, 1992; views on social and fiscal conservatism, abortion;…

SLEDGE, Ely (b. 1934) and SLEDGE, William (b. 1928)

Interview ID#
OH 1210
For the Ray Roberts Lake Oral History Project. Reminiscences and experiences concerning their father's farm near Pilot Point, Texas, 1900-1980 Comments about their African-American ancestors; their descriptions of various pieces of old farm equipment strewn about the homestead; sorghum mill and syrup- making; hog butchering and meat preservation;…

SMYTH, T. L. (b. 1913)

Interview ID#
OH 0754
His experiences with the 55th Coast Artillery at Fort Ruger during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.

STARKS, Vivian T. (b. 1907)

Interview ID#
OH 1005
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Schoolteacher. Her experiences as a resident of Hamilton Park, Texas, 1954-91. Segregated education in Bryan, Texas; Wiley College; teaching career in segregated Dallas schools; decision to buy home in Hamilton Park; transportation problems; home improvements; church activities; Civic League; the “Buy Out”; zoning problems; Interorganizational…

SULLIVAN, Mary George Billingsley (b. 1908)

Interview ID#
OH 1682
For the Denton County Historical Commission. Longtime Denton County resident. Family history; farming life, religious practice, and education in the public schools of Argyle, Texas; marriage to Carson Sullivan and 1929 move to city of Denton; work for Denton Building and Loan Association; 1951 move to Dallas and 1973 return to Argyle;…

POFF, Kenneth (b. 1913)

Interview ID#
OH 1207
Foundry worker. His experiences in the Southwest Pacific Theater during World War II. Advanced training, Camp Stoneman, 1943; stationing in New Guinea; invasion of Cape Gloucester, New Britain, and attachment to the 1st Marine Division, 1943; landings at Hollandia, 1944; invasion of Lingayen Gulf, Philippines, 1944; kamikazes; advance toward Clark…

ROBERTS, Charles H. (b. ca. 1918)

Interview ID#
OH 1201
His experiences with the Marine Guard Detachment at Kaneohe Naval Air Station during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.

PRUNTY, Luther G. (b. 1912)

Interview ID#
OH 0689
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Civil servant, member of the “Lost Battalion.” His experiences as a prisoner-of-war of the Japanese during World War II. Fall of Java and capture; Bicycle Camp, Batavia, 1942; Changi Prison Camp, Singapore, 1942; building the Burma-Thailand Death Railway, 1942-44; Tamarkan, Thailand, 1944-45, and American air raids; Phet Buri, Thailand, 1945;…

RUGG, Alma (b. 1916)

Interview ID#
OH 0224
Her experiences as a Navy wife at Hickam Field during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.

MCMILLAN, Ernest (b. 1944)

Interview ID#
OH 1839
For the Desegregating DFW Oral History Project. Long-time civil rights activist. Childhood in Dallas; memories of the black community; life during segregation; growing awareness of “race” and racism; participation in the Dallas NAACP Youth Council; Juanita Craft; interest in black history and black power; Dallas SNCC; assassination of Martin…

HICKS, John Howard (b. 1938)

Interview ID#
OH 1871

For the Crisis at Mansfield Online Archive. Longtime African American resident of Mansfield, Texas. Family history; childhood memories of Mansfield; segregation in social life and in public education; memories of teachers in Mansfield’s black school; attendance at I.M. Terrell; memories of Mansfield Crisis; NAACP activity in Mansfield; career…

CLARK, Alma (b. 1928)

Interview ID#
OH 1900
For the Denton Women’s Interracial Fellowship Oral History Project. Childhood in a mixed neighborhood in Lampasas, Texas; good race relations in Lampasas; living in a segregated neighborhood in Austin; move to Denton; Quakertown history; Denton Women’s Interracial Fellowship; efforts to pave streets; lasting friendships among Fellowship members;…