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HALE, L. Dewitt (b. 1917)

Interview ID#
OH 0013
Attorney, member of the Texas House of Representatives from Corpus Christi, Democrat. His experiences from his career as a member of the Texas Legislature (1939-40; 1953-62; 1964-67). Biographical information and decision to enter politics; influence of lobbyists; revenue legislation; changes in House rules; evolution of House membership; comments…

HARDING, Warren G. (b. 1921)

Interview ID#
OH 0524
His experiences while aboard the battleship USS California during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.

HAVENHILL, Jessie “Jackye” Hall (b. *)

Interview ID#
OH 1651
For the Denton County Historical Commission. Longtime Denton resident. History of family farm at present-day intersection of I-35W and Bonnie Brae Ave.; farm’s connection to Belo family; details of dairy and grain farming operations; domestic life on the farm; local history; education at NTSC “lab school” and NTSC.

HEYER, Anna H. (b. ca. 1908)

Interview ID#
OH 0851
Librarian. Her experiences in the development of the Music Library at North Texas State College, 1940-65.

HOOPER, W. R. (b. 1942)

Interview ID#
OH 0869
Anesthetist. His experiences as an Army nurse in Vietnam, 1969-70. Civilian and military education; 18th Surgical Hospital at Camp Evans; Quang tri City; battle casualties; social life; relations with Vietnamese civilians; civilian casualties; North Vietnamese POWs; family relationships; personal thoughts about U.S. involvement in Vietnam.

HUTCHENS, Ted (b. 1953)

Interview ID#
OH 1533
Businessman. His experiences while attending the Texas International Pop Festival, Lewisville, Texas, August 30-September 1, 1969. Conflicts with his parents about the counterculture of the 1960s; his youth in Springfield, Missouri; his high school experiences and friends; his attractions to the counterculture; influence of the Beatles and the “…

JAMISON, Alonzo (b. 1918)

Interview ID#
OH 0032
His experiences and personal views as a member of the Special Session of the Sixtieth Legislature. Appropriations; revenue bills; comments about budget-making process; legislature’s relationship with Governor John Connally; liquor legislation; urban-rural conflict.

JONES, Roy (b. 1897)

Interview ID#
OH 1438
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For the Ray Roberts Lake Oral History Project. Farmer. Miscellaneous reminiscences about rural life, agriculture, neighbors, and homesteads in Denton County, Texas, 1900-1987. A walking tour of his farm with descriptions of buildings and agricultural equipment; rural social life and recreation; folk remedies and medicines; food preservation; the…

KENNER, Jack W. (b. 1920)

Interview ID#
OH 0513
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; hell ship to Japan, 1942; Hakodate, Sapporo, and Muroran, Hokkaido, 1942-45; liberation.

KLINGENBERG, Elmo (b. 1917)

Interview ID#
OHB 0074
President and general manager, Fort Worth Stockyards Company, Fort Worth, Texas. Family background; dairy farming in Washington County, Illinois; experiences teaching in one-room school, Washington County, 1935; military service during World War II; employment with United Stockyards Corporation and placement as management trainee at Fort Worth…

LAWLIS, Frank (b. 1940)

Interview ID#
OH 1276
Psychologist. His experiences developing the Behavioral Medicine Program at the University of North Texas.

LINDQUIST, Theodore (b. 1923)

Interview ID#
OH 1491
Copy of his flight log book listing activities as a PBJ (B-25) gunner in the Southwest Pacific Theater during World War II. Gunnery training in the States, 1944; flight from the West Coast to Green Island; bombing missions to New Ireland, Kavieng, and New Britain; night missions, strafing missions, and air-sea rescue missions; comments about…

MARTIN, Lonnie E. (b. 1912)

Interview ID#
OH 1432
His experiences as an administrative officer in the Southwest Pacific Theater during World War II. His education at Georgia Military College and the University of Georgia, 1934-38; his career as a journalist, 1938-40; enlistment in the Army Air Forces as an infantry officer and training at Fort Benning, Georgia, 1940; his transfer to the 36th…

McLEOD, Pat N. (b. 1924)

Interview ID#
OH 1225
College professor. His experiences concerning the desegregation of North Texas State College, Denton, Texas, 1955-56. Race relations while growing up in Central Texas, 1930s and 1940s; his African-American friend, Jesse Fisher; racial climate in Denton during 1950s; comments about the role of the President of North Texas State College, James Carl…

MICHELONY, Lewis J. (b. 1920)

Interview ID#
OH 1002
His experiences in the Pacific Theater during World War II and the Korean War. Assignment to 6th Marines, 1943; Guadalcanal; Tarawa; Saipan; Tinian; also Korea and Chosin Reservoir.

MOORE, Frederick Douglass and daughters ALEXANDER, Alice (b. 1908), PUNCH, Daisy (b. ca. 1910), and YOUNG, Hazel (b. 1905); also CALHOUN, Margaret Davis (b. ca. 1910)

Interview ID#
OH 1212
Their reminiscences about the history of the African-American sections of Denton, Texas, 1910-85, and remembrances about their father, Frederick Douglass Moore, a renowned African-American educator in Denton, 1915-50. The original African- American section, “Quakertown,” and its origins; their early family history; Fred Moore's barbershop;…

NAKANO, Mei T. (b. 1924)

Interview ID#
OH 1069
College professor. Her experiences as a Japanese-American internee at the Amache, Colorado, internment camp during World War II. Childhood experiences with bigotry in rural Colorado; evacuation from Los Angeles to Amache, September, 1942; camp life; her marriage in camp; resettlement in Chicago; lasting impressions of the internment experience.

TAMPRATEEP, Numchai (b. 1955)

Interview ID#
OH 1705
For the DFW Metroplex Immigrants Oral History Project. Thai-borne immigrant to Denton, Texas, and restaurateur. Childhood and education in rural Suphan Buri and urban Ranong and Bangkok, Thailand; decision to immigrate to U.S.; enrollment at North Texas Junior College in Gainesville, Texas; first impressions of U.S. and Texas; transfer to UNT to…

TIPTON, A. C. (b. 1923)

Interview ID#
OH 1108
His experiences while employed by the Civilian Conservation Corps during the Great Depression. Childhood in Carlisle, Texas; joining the CCC; assignment to a camp near Zavalla, Texas; description of camp; life in camp.

VAESSEN, John (b. 1916)

Interview ID#
OH 0587
His experiences while trapped inside the overturned target battleship USS Utah during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.

WENDELL, Jan (b. 1932)

Interview ID#
OH 101
Schoolteacher, homemaker. Her observations concerning the cultural development of Aransas County, Texas, 1967-71. Rockport Art Association; impact of art on Aransas County; prominent local artists; art buyers.

WILLIAMS, Kenneth C (b. 1922)

Interview ID#
OH 1143
His experiences while employed by the Civilian Conservation Corps during the Great Depression. Childhood in Oklahoma; joining the CCC; assignment to a camp in Clinton, Oklahoma; description of camp; life in camp.

WOOTON, J. B., Jr. (b. 1913)

Interview ID#
OHB 0062
Owner and operator, Denton Floor Covering Company, Inc., Denton, Texas. Family background; work in grocery stores in Denton, 1930s; employment as salesman for Lone Star Gas Company, 1940; work in Denton appliance and hardware stores; hired as manager of Denton Floor Covering, 1955; history and financing of business; growth of sales; contrasts…

OFFERLE, Roy M. (b. 1921)

Interview ID#
OH 0457
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; death of his older brother; Tamarkan, Thailand, 1944; Chungkai, Thailand, 1944; railroad…

SACKER, John (b. ca. 1920)

Interview ID#
OH 0767
His experiences with the 9th Signal Service Company at Schofield Barracks during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.