Attorney. His experiences in the Southwest Pacific Theater during World War II; also his experiences as a prosecuting attorney of Class C war criminals for International Military Tribunal for the Far East after World War II. Assignment to New Guinea, 1944, and legal work there; assignment to an Army tugboat and operations around Mindinao,…
For the Ray Roberts Lake Oral History Project. Farmer. His description of buildings and families during a driving tour of Denton County, Texas.
Vietnamese-American immigrant and entrepreneur based in Dallas, Texas. Born in Saigon, Vietnam, Ngo and his family fled postwar Vietnam in 1979, surviving a perilous journey by sea and nearly a year in a refugee camp in the Philippines before resettling in the United States. Ngo reflects on his family’s early struggles, the preservation of…
His experiences while aboard the battleship USS California during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
Stage director. His recollections of his father, the artist Perry Nichols. Growing up at the family house/studio on Forest Park Road, Dallas, Texas, in the 1940s; his father’s first wife, Mary Nell Brooks; his description and identification of the arts people who visited his father’s studio; his father’s conversion of a church on Cole Avenue in…
His experiences at Kaneohe Naval Air Station during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
For the Tarrant County War Veterans Project. Childhood in Bonham, Texas; family life in the Great Depression; reaction to Pearl Harbor; decision to enlist in U.S. Navy; basic and advanced training; assignment as a range finder operator/electrician on the USS Drayton; Battles of Tassafaronga, Guadalcanal, San Pedro Bay, and others; strategies of…
University professor. Her experiences concerning the formation and development of the Women's Studies Program at the University of North Texas, 1988-95. Early interest in women's studies; organizing the Woman's Studies Program on campus; opponents and proponents; teaching methods; views on feminism.
His experiences as a prisoner-of-war of the Japanese during World War II. Struggle for Corregidor; surviving the Palawan massacre, 1944.
His experiences at Schofield Barracks with the 27th Infantry during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941; comments about the author James Jones (From Here to Eternity).
Nitchke, Pattie South: Daughter of Charles S. South, former Vice President and Administrative Head of Braniff’s Latin-American Division. The in-flight and ground experiences of Braniff International Airways by Abra Schnur through a collection of former Braniff employee interviews. Interviewees include flight attendants, pilots, ticket agents,…
His experiences as a student at the Frederick Douglass Colored School, Denton, Texas, 1926-32.
Schoolteacher. Her experiences at the Frederick Douglass Colored School, Denton, Texas, 1949-69. Relationship with students; church activities; comments about Principal Fred Moore.
For the Texas Textile Mill Oral History Project. Former employee of the Texas Textile Mill and longtime resident of McKinney, Texas. Nature of clerical work at the mill; memories of various mill products; memories of various mill employees.
Banker. Family background; boyhood work experiences; education; first job in banking; rise to bank president; early banking practices, equipment, laws; evolution of banking business; Depression; retirement and move to Denton, Texas, 1951; membership on bank boards; comments on banking in Denton through 1978; other business interests.
His experiences while employed by the Civilian Conservation Corps during the Great Depression. Childhood in Brazos, Texas; joining the CCC; assignment to BR-83-W in Veteran, Wyoming; reenlistment to F-2-N in Apache Creek, New Mexico; transfer to Conchas Dam near Tucumcari, New Mexico; description of camps; life in camps.
His experiences at Fort Shafter with the 64th Coast Artillery during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
Owner and operator of Joe’s Cleaners, Denton, Texas. Family background; early work experiences; education; work as youth in cleaning shop; opening Joe’s Cleaners, 1944; decline of dry cleaning business; his unique credit system; importance of self-employment; other business ventures; dealings with City of Denton; history of his business.
For the DFW Immigration Oral History Project. Research lab animal manager at UNT. Childhood in Indonesia, education at Airlangga University, Surabaya, Indonesia. Career with Merck as poultry veterinarian, marriage, move to Denton and career with UNT. Experience as an immigrant living and working in the United States.
For the Crisis at Mansfield Online Archive. Longtime African American resident of Mansfield, Texas. Childhood memories of Mansfield; segregation in social life and in public education; attendance at I.M. Terrell; desegregating Mansfield High; memories of Mansfield Crisis; education at UT-Arlington; career in Mansfield ISD; organizing Juneteenth…
Nuby, Marquis. Participant in Our Stories, Our Justice, a participatory storytelling project that centers individuals and their communities in a collective effort to (re)produce oral and visual histories that shine light on a continuum of radical leadership by BIPOC and marginalized women.
His experiences with the 11th Bomb Group at Hickam Field during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
For the DFW Metroplex Immigrants Oral History Project. Zimbabwean-born immigrant to North Texas. Politics in Zimbabwe; Robert Mugabe; Rhodesia; farm seizures; HIV-AIDS; English as a Second Language; U.S. immigration policy; education at Richland College; modern Africa, Zimbabwe independence, 1980.
His experiences while aboard the cruiser USS San Francisco during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
O'Hara, Michael: For the Postpartum Depression and Maternal Mental Health Oral History Project. Michael O’Hara has been a leading researcher in the psychology of postpartum depression since the late-1970s/early-1980s. We discussed his entry into psychology and perinatal mental health issues in particular, his involvement in the Marcé Society…
