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PARRY, Barbara L. (b. 1952)

Interview ID#
OH 2057

For the Postpartum Depression and Maternal Mental Health Oral History Project. Barbara L. Parry is a professor of psychiatry focused on women's mood disorders, especially postpartum depression and premenstrual disorders. She discusses her training and early research in the field, her work with light therapy and with sleep and circadian rhythms…

HAMMICK, Lazayvion (OH 2088)

Interview ID#
OH 2088

UNT alumnus (class of 2021). The interview was created to accommodate a comparison of the collegiate experience of UNT’s African American students during 2018-2021 with the experiences of African American students of the 1950s and 1960s.

AGNICH, Fred (b. 1913)

Interview ID#
OH 0553
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.

ANDERSON, Gloria Villanueva (b. 1935)

Interview ID#
OH 1563
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…

BACHNER, Joel (b. 1918)

Interview ID#
OH 0198
His experiences while aboard the battleship USS California during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.

BATEMAN, Willa Mae (b. ca. 1918)

Interview ID#
OH 0951
Her recollections concerning the Crater of Diamonds and diamond mining near Murfreesboro, Arkansas, 1940-50.

BIERSCHWALE, William (b. 1921)

Interview ID#
OH 0247
His experiences while aboard the battleship USS Maryland during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.

BOUNDS, Ivan (b. 1926)

Interview ID#
OH 1503
For the Denton County Historical Commission. Aircraft worker. His experiences as a longtime resident of Denton County, Texas, 1926-2002.

BRISCOE, Alan Lee (b. 1945)

Interview ID#
OH 1607
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…

BUNCH, William P. (b. 1921)

Interview ID#
OH 0091
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.

CANFIELD, Larry (b. 1941)

Interview ID#
OH 0863
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.

CHENNAULT, James R. (b. 1915)

Interview ID#
OH 1508
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,…

COFFEY, William W. (b. 1918)

Interview ID#
OH 0583
His experiences at Hickam Field with the Finance Detachment during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.

CRANE, Richard A. (b. 1916)

Interview ID#
OH 0994
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.

CURTIS, Raymond E. (b. 1927)

Interview ID#
OH 1707
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…

DEFOOR, Ira T. (b. 1919)

Interview ID#
OH 0601
College instructor. His experiences while equipment manager for the football team during the desegregation of athletics at North Texas State College, 1956.

DOUGHERTY, Russell E. (b. 1920)

Interview ID#
OH 1558
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.

EDMOND, William J. (b. 1924)

Interview ID#
OH 0918
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;…

EVANS, Peter (b. 1923)

Interview ID#
OH 0624
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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.

FISKEN, Geoffrey B. (b. 1915)

Interview ID#
OH 0998
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.

FREELAND, Gene (b. 1928)

Interview ID#
OH 0515
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…

GEAR, Joe B. (b. 1922)

Interview ID#
OH 0055
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…

GONZALES, Emilio “Popo” (b. 1936) and Guadalupe “Lupe” Elizondo (b. 1941)

Interview ID#
OH 1562
Hair stylists, community volunteers/activists. His youth working in the cotton fields and gins of South and West Texas; his decision to go to barber school, 1957; his marriage to Guadalupe (“Lupe”), 1960; decision to move to Denton, Texas, 1964; her decision to attend beauty school; their activities with Immaculate Conception catholic Church in…

GRIFFIN, Doyle (b. 1916)

Interview ID#
OHB 0076
Owner and operator, R & R Motor Supply, Inc., Denton, Texas. Family background; comments concerning work on Will Evers’s pecan farm and hiring out to pick cotton, Denton; employment in Bailey Mullins’s machine shop and auto parts store, 1935; description of merchandise and prices; employment with Public Construction Company building defense…

HALE, L. Dewitt (b. 1917)

Interview ID#
OH 0277
His experiences and personal views while serving as a member of the Texas Constitutional Convention, 1974. Need for constitutional revision; Constitutional Revision Commission; Joint Constitutional Convention Planning Committee; Price Daniel, Jr., as chairman of the Constitutional Convention; Judiciary Committee; right-to-work provision; failure…