His experiences while employed by the Civilian Conservation Corps during the Great Depression. Childhood in Garland and Wylie, Texas; joining the CCC; assignment to Company 869 in Farmersville, Texas; camp move to Kaufman, Texas; description of camps; life in camps.
His experiences with the 55th Coast Artillery at Fort Ruger during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
His experiences while aboard the destroyer USS Cummings during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
Banker. His experiences in the Pacific Theater during World War II. Youth and education in Denton, Texas; decision to join the Navy, February 3, 1944; boot training and electrical engineering school, San Diego, California, 1944; assignment to the aircraft carrier USS Hancock, July, 1944; a description of his duties aboard the Hancock; assignment…
Cabinetmaker. His experiences in the Pacific Theater during World War II. Experiences in the Civilian Conservation Corps; employment as a machinist in south Florida, 1941-42; entry into the Marine Corps, February, 1943; boot camp experiences at Parris Island, South Carolina; training with 40-millimeter antiaircraft guns, New River, North Carolina…
Denton drag artist. Experiences with drag in Denton and DFW, pageantry, and digital drag; cultural impacts of Ru Paul’s Drag Race and how Denton serves as a place where diversity and creativity challenge such normative expectations; significance and nuances of queer spaces in Denton; Golden Boy controversy and Golden Cabaret; opinions regarding…
Banker. Observations on the settlement and development of the Coastal Bend area of South Texas, 1935-72. Subdivisions and residential developments; Canoe Lake Corporation; tourism; early hotels and motels; duck hunting; Aransas National Wildlife Refuge; shrimping; shipbuilding; Gulf Intracoastal Waterway; hurricanes; views on community growth;…
For the Tarrant County War Veterans Project. Childhood and education in Spring Green, Wisconsin; decision to enlist in U.S.Army following 1940 high school graduation; Army Air Forces basic training at Wheeler Field, Hawaii; advanced training in aircraft maintenance at Wheeler, Bellows, and Hickam Fields, Hawaii; social life on base; Pearl Harbor…
For the DFW Metroplex Immigration Oral History Project. Mexican-born immigrant to Plano, Texas. Childhood in Mexico; first experience in Plano, Texas at age seventeen; second experience in Plano, Texas as a live-in nanny; move to Abilene, Texas; return to Mexico with husband; return to Plano as an illegal immigrant; difficulties with illegal…
For the DFW Metroplex Immigration Oral History Project. Mexican-born immigrant to Plano, Texas. Childhood in Mexico; experiences during first visit to the U.S.; illegally crossing the border to live in Dallas, Texas; experiences with a coyote; experiences as an undocumented person; experiences with discrimination in the U.S.; thoughts on the DREAM…
Public school administrator. His experiences as a PBJ (B-25) pilot in the Southwest Pacific during World War II. His decision to join the Navy Aviation Cadet Program, 1942; Civilian Pilot Training Program, Sherman, Texas, 1941-42; pre-flight training, Grand Prairie Naval Air Station, Grand Prairie, Texas, 1942-43; basic and advanced flight…
Lorena Soto recounts her life through her memories of food. Her earliest food memories include those involving a nanny named Guadalupe who cooked meals for the family. Lorena also remembers becoming aware of her body through food shame. As she has gone through life she has tried to re-learn how to enjoy food.
His experiences while aboard the target battleship USS Utah during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
Experiences with the 1st Marine Division in the Pacific Theater during World War II; family life and childhood in Ohio; enlistment with Marine Corps following bombing of Pearl Harbor; boot camp at Parris Island, South Carolina, and New River (now Camp Lejeune), North Carolina; deployment to the Pacific Theater aboard the USS John Ericcson and pre-…
His experiences when caught on the number one tee at the Schofield Barracks Golf Course during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
Truck driver. His experiences as a prisoner-of-war of the Japanese during World War II. Pre-war legation duty at Peking and Tientsin, North China; surrender and imprisonment at Wusong Prison Camp, Shanghai, 1941-42; Kiangwang Prison Camp, 1942-45; Pusan, Korea, 1945; coal mining at Hakodate, Hokkaido, 1945; liberation.
His experiences while employed by the Civilian Conservation Corps during the Great Depression. Childhood in Missouri; joining the CCC; assignment to Company 1733 in Ava, Missouri; description of camp; life in camp.
Insurance executive, banker, farmer. Observations on land speculation, settlement, and development in the Coastal Bend area of South Texas, 1910-70. Cotton farming; banking; Mexican-Anglo relations; small town social life.
Homemaker. Observations on land speculation, settlement, and development around Sinton-Portland, Texas, 1910-30. Agrarian life.
District manager, Duke and Ayres Company, Denton, Texas. Family background, description of Vashti, Texas, community and farming experiences; comments on work baling hay and harvesting wheat; employment with Cabell’s Ice Cream and the Baker Hotel while attending Burns Business College, Dallas, 1935; comments on Depression in Vashti and Dallas;…
His experiences in the Pacific Theater during World War II. Guadalcanal, 1942-43; Tarawa, 1943; and Okinawa, 1945.
Speckhard, Anne: For the Postpartum Depression and Maternal Mental Health Oral History Project. Dr. Anne Speckhard is a psychologist who has written on post-abortion stress syndrome, and she has also done research on post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and on violent extremism. This interview focuses on her work on post-abortion stress,…
His experiences in the China-Burma-India Theater during World War II. His education and youth in South Texas; enlistment in the Army, September, 1942; assignment to the Courts-Martial Section, Fort Sam Houston, San Antonio, Texas, 1942-44; Officer Candidate School, Fort Lee, Virginia, 1944; Quartermaster School, Fort Lee, 1944; assignment to…
Attorney. Observations on the development of the Coastal Bend area of South Texas, 1920-71. Cotton farming; Irish settlers and the Ku Klux Klan; experiences as an attorney; gambling; development of the Aransas County Airport; oil exploration; housing subdivisions; Coastal Bend Regional Planning Commission; hurricanes; agriculture; property values…
His experiences with the 35th Infantry Regiment at Schofield Barracks during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
