His experiences while aboard the tanker USS Neosho during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
Member of the United States Army. Reasons for joining. Experiences at the New Mexico Military Institute. What it was like being stationed in Kuwait. Missions with the Texas National Guard. ROTC recruiter at the University of North Texas.
His experiences while aboard the tanker USS Neosho during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
For the DFW Metroplex Immigrants Oral History Project. Chinese-born immigrant to Denton, Texas. Childhood and education in China; family life; parents’ role in decision-making; decision to enter U.S. to study accounting; practice of Christianity in China; immigration process; religious freedom in U.S. vs. China; struggles to acculturate.
His experiences at Fort Kamehameha with the Coast Artillery during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
His experiences as a B-17 pilot in the European Theater during World War II. Primary, basic, and advanced training in the U.S., 1942-43; assignment to the B-17; stationing at Thorpe-Abbotts, England, 1943; his first combat mission; subsequent missions; German antiaircraft defenses and fighter tactics; raid to Bremen, October 8, 1943; defensive…
His experiences while aboard the battleship USS California during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
For Richard Rafes dissertation, “The Historical Development of Texas College of Osteopathic Medicine as a State Medical School, 1960-1975.” TCOM co-founder.
For the DFW Metroplex Immigration Oral History Project. He discusses his family’s immigrant history from Vietnam to North Texas, his identity as a Texan, how he found his way to working in the culinary world, and what he hopes to see in the future of Vietnamese American cuisine.
African-American former student of North Texas State University. Remembrances about childhood and early education in South Dallas, Texas; decision to enroll at North Texas in 1964; off-campus life in “Shack Town” and support from black citizens of Denton; social life among African-American students and relations with white students and faculty;…
His experiences while aboard the target battleship USS Utah during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
Executive. Educational background; early employment; employment with Standard Oil Company of California; transfer to Caltex, 1938; expansion before World War II; Caltex during World War II; Bapco’s refinery expansion; financing postwar refinery expansion; foreign exchange problems; banking syndicates; accounting methods; tanker construction;…
For the Desegregating DFW Oral History Project. Telephone operator and EEOC member and activist. Childhood as a white Mississippi sharecropper; experiences of discrimination against poor and women; move to Dallas for war work; experiences of segregation; sympathizing with African Americans’ experiences with discrimination; public reaction to the…
For the Arms Along the Border Oral History Project. Longtime resident of Redford, Texas. Childhood and early education in Redford; attendance at University of Texas-Austin; family’s farming and mercantile history in the Big Bend area; involvement with Texas Historical Commission; experiences of mother, Lucia Rede Madrid, as a rural librarian;…
For the Dallas DREAMers Oral History Project. DREAM Team activist. Family’s decision to leave Mexico; immigration to Dallas, Texas, at seven years old; life as undocumented; discovering the North Texas DREAM Team; DACA; activism; current immigration policy.
His experiences at Hickam Field with the 31st Bombardment Squadron during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
Sisters’ recollections of life in Texarkana, Texas, and parents; Junior Service League; family entertainment; women’s suffrage and political activities; church activities; Current Topic Club; Wednesday Music Club; women’s household chores.
Farmer. His experiences while aboard the submarine USS Pilotfish in the Pacific Theater during World War II. Submarine School, New London, Connecticut, 1944; assignment to the Pilotfish, 1945; his responsibilities as a torpedoman striker; patrol off Marcus Island; also his observations concerning the Japanese surrender in Tokyo Bay on September 2…
Musician. His recollections about the personal life and professional career of Colonel Earl D. Irons. His student days at North Texas Agricultural College under Irons; Irons’s role in the development of the high school band movement in Texas; Irons’s teaching philosophy; Irons’s relationship with the Texas Music Educators Association; Irons’s…
Novelist. His various reminiscences based on his experiences in the Philippines during World War II. Comments about Army life in general; jungle patrols; observations on the Japanese surrender in Tokyo Bay, September 2, 1945; the role of his wartime experiences in his novel, The Naked and the Dead.
For the Dallas LGBT Oral History Project. President and CEO at AIDS Service of Dallas, lawyer, and longtime activist in the Dallas LGBT community. Childhood in Michigan; move to Chicago, Illinois, and then to the Dallas, Texas area for college; work for Dallas County Juvenile Department; law school in San Antonio, Texas; coming out; involvement…
Major, Brenda: For the Postpartum Depression and Maternal Mental Health Oral History Project. Brenda Major discusses her training and work in psychology, including her research into women and achievement. Then the majority of the interview is on her work studying women’s psychological causal attributions around abortion, research conducted in…
For the DFW Immigration Oral History Project. Assistant Professor of History, World War II scholar at UNT. Childhood in Belgrade, Serbia and Toronto, Canada. Education at York and Toronto Universities. Childhood immigration to Canada, life and work in Canada and Moscow. Immigration to the United States. Multicultural childhood and…
For the DFW Metroplex Immigrants Oral History Project. Mexican-born immigrant to Dallas, Texas; North Texas DREAM Team Lobbyist. Childhood in Mexico; development of leadership skills as a child; effects of NAFTA on the Mexican economy and standards of living; thoughts on NAFTA’s role in driving illegal immigration; immigration to McKinney, Texas…
For the Tarrant County War Veterans Oral History Project. Childhood and education in Fort Worth; decision to drop out of high school; decision to enlist in U.S. Army; experiences in basic training at Ft. Sill, Oklahoma; deployment to Kuwait and Iraq; experience of being reunited with sister at Balad Air Base outside of Baghdad; duties guarding and…
