Interview by the Denton County Historical Commission. Childhood memories growing up during the Depression; Veteran, military service, occupations and marriage; reflections on Bonnie & Clyde; donating his family’s log cabin to Denton County, TX.
Maynard, Donald: Pilot (first pilot hired that wore glasses), Flight Engineer worked for Braniff and Braniff II. 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, ground crew, executives…
For the American History: Voluntary Simplicity Oral History Project. Childhood memories growing up in China and Japan. Masanobu’s music career. Tomoko’s early work as a midwife. Spiritual life and practices. Their married life together in simple living community.
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 for Perinatal Mental…
Administrative Coordinator at UNT. Childhood in Germany, education at University of York, England, career with UNT administration. Experience as a “third-culture kid” being born in Germany, moving to the USA at 30 years old.
His experiences and personal views as a member of the Sixty-seventh Legislature. Elections of 1980; initiative-referendum; interest rates; tax relief; state water plan; property tax legislation; law-and-order issues; comments about Governor William Clements; redistricting; Speaker Bill Clayton and Brilab; fish and game laws.
Community activist. Her experiences as an activist in the Mexican-American community of Denton, Texas; family background; comments about the lack of discrimination against Hispanics in Denton; her education in the Denton schools; her first experience with discrimination at the train station in Denison, Texas, at age seventeen; her acceptance to…
For the Skylab Oral History Project. NASA engineer. Education at Texas A&M University and South Texas School of Law; decision to join NASA; work in flight control operations and communications support on Apollo program; Skylab “wet workshop”; problem-solving on Skylab mission launches; monotony inherent in Skylab work-shift schedules and…
Businessman, Army veteran, survivor of the Bataan campaign. His experiences as a prisoner-of-war of the Japanese during World War II. Japanese bombing of Clark Field; fall of Bataan and capture; Camp O’Donnell, 1942; Cabanatuan, 1942; hell ship to Japan, 1942; Yawata steel mill, Honshu; Miyazu, Honshu, 1944-45, and American air raids; liberation.
His experiences as an Army nurse in Vietnam. Assignment to the 93rd Evacuation Hospital, 935th Medical Detachment, Long Binh; living conditions; morale problems; recreation; medical treatment of enemy POWs; racial problems.
His experiences in the Southwest Pacific Theater during World War II. His youth in rural Mississippi; his move to Texas in 1939; his decision to join the 112th Cavalry, 1940; mobilization of the Texas National Guard, November, 1940; Louisiana Maneuvers as part of the 3rd Army, Summer, 1941; training at Fort Bliss, El Paso, Texas, and Fort Clark,…
His experiences while employed by the Civilian Conservation Corps during the Great Depression. Childhood in Mesquite, Texas; joining the CCC; assignment to Company 819 at Camp NP-2-A in Grand, Canyon, Arizona; description of camp; life in camp.
For the Weatherford Oral History Project. Longtime resident and school administrator of Weatherford, Texas. Family history; birth, childhood, and education in Collin County, Texas; farm life in the Great Depression; World War II service in U.S. Navy; education at UNT under the GI Bill; career as a teacher, administrator, and coach in various…
College instructor. His experiences while equipment manager for the football team during the desegregation of athletics at North Texas State College, 1956.
Former commander-in-chief of Strategic Air Command (SAC). His experiences and association with General Curtis LeMay. LeMay’s uncanny judgment; LeMay’s handling of people in his command; LeMay’s penchant for discipline; the Soviet military’s assessment of LeMay; testing Soviet air defenses; LeMay’s organizational talents.
Educator. His experiences as a resident of Hamilton Park, Texas, 1956-90. Youth in East Texas; military service in World War II; employment with Dallas Independent School District; segregated housing in Dallas; decision to purchase home in Hamilton Park; home improvements; zoning problems; activities with Civic League; shopping areas;…
Labor representative, member of the “Lost Battalion.” His experiences as a prisoner-of-war of the Japanese during World War II. Fall of Java and capture; imprisonment in Surabaja, 1942; hell ship to Japan, 1942; Tokyo docks; Nagasaki; Fukuoka Prison Camp No. 9, Kyushu, 1945; liberation.
His experiences in the Pacific Theater as a combat pilot in the Royal New Zealand Air Force during World War II. Fall of Singapore; Guadalcanal operations; air combat against Japanese Zeros; release from duty, December 1943.
Labor official. His experiences as a member of the Dallas council of AFL-CIO. Early experiences in International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers at Dallas Power and Light; union steward in Meter Service Division, 1958; union president, 1960; union business manager, 1962-65; secretary-treasurer, Dallas AFL-CIO, 1965-79; problems of labor…
Businessman, survivor of the siege of Corregidor. His experiences as a prisoner-of-war of the Japanese during World War II. Destruction of Cavite Navy Base by Japanese bombers; fall of Corregidor and capture; damage to eyes due to phosphorous bomb; Bellbird Prison, Manila, 1942; Cabanatuan, 1942; transfer to Formosa, 1942; hell ship to Japan, 1942…
