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VARNELL, Lawrence (b. 1922)

Interview ID#
OH 0717
His experiences while aboard the battleship USS Maryland during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.

WEDDINGTON, Sarah (b. 1945)

Interview ID#
OH 0303
Attorney, member of the Texas Legislature from Austin, Democrat. Her experiences and personal views as a member of the Sixty-fourth Legislature. Decision to enter politics; personal political philosophy; House speakership race; committee appointments; constitutional revision; Equal Rights Amendment; public school financing; public utilities…

WILDE, Earle (b. 1919)

Interview ID#
OH 1419
His experiences as a B-17 bombardier in the European Theater during World War II. Service in the U.S. Navy, 1936-40; employment with the Cincinnati Police Department, 1940-42; enlistment in the Aviation Cadet Program, October 15, 1942; basic training, Fresno, California, 1943; College Training Detachment, University of Montana, 1943; pre-flight…

WOOD, Charles E. (b. 1923)

Interview ID#
OH 1307
His experiences as a B-24 gunner in the European Theater during World War II. Enlistment in the Aviation Cadet Program, 1942; gunnery school, Tindall Field, Florida, and Biggs Field, El Paso, Texas, 1943; assignment to the 493rd Bomb Group, 1943; stationing at Debach, England, April, 1944; operations on D-Day; mission to Merseberg, Germany,…

ZANGARI, Samuel (b. 1915)

Interview ID#
OH 0062
Postal clerk. His experiences with the 24th Infantry Division at Ala Moana Crater during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.

PATRICK, Theresa A. (b. 1951)

Interview ID#
OH 0925
Her experiences while growing up in Hamilton Park, Texas, 1957-70. Hamilton Park School and desegregation.

PETERS, Walter H. (b. 1923)

Interview ID#
OH 0745
His experiences aboard the cruiser USS Detroitduring the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.

SCOTT, Tom (b. 1953)

Interview ID#
OH 1535
Businessman. His experiences while attending the Texas International Pop Festival, Lewisville, Texas, August 30-September 1, 1969. His parents’ expectations for their children; influence of attending Walden Preparatory School, Dallas, Texas; his difficulty in fitting in at Highland Park High School; his teenage activities at Lee Park, Dallas, and…

SHIVERS, Allan (b. 1907)

Interview ID#
OH 0006
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Former state senator, lieutenant governor, and governor of Texas, 1950-57. Career in the Texas Senate, 1934-45; liquor control issue; pari-mutuel betting; lobbyists; oil politics; labor relations; comments about Governors James Allred and W. Lee O’Daniel; race for lieutenant governor, 1946; views on the operation of state government; education;…

SMITH, Leslie A. (b. 1909)

Interview ID#
OH 0659
Executive, Caltex Petroleum Corporation. Educational background; banking business in London; employment with Caltex and assignment with Bapco on Bahrain, 1937; Bahraini royal family; Bapco policies; World War II; post-World War II developments on Bahrain; assignment to Caltex (New York), 1957; Caltex reorganization, 1957; Caltex West Fiscal; OPEC…

SPECHT, Lyle (b. 1918)

Interview ID#
OH 0928
His experiences in the Pacific Theater during World War II. Guadalcanal, 1942-43; Tarawa, 1943; and Okinawa, 1945.

STINES, James T. (b. 1921)

Interview ID#
OH 0880
Plumber. His experiences while employed by the Civilian Conservation Corps during the Great Depression. Childhood in Arkansas; joining the CCC; assignment to Company 742 at Camp Shady near Mena, Arkansas; transfer to Company 4782 at Camp Flint Creek near Phillipsburg, Montana; description of camps; life in camps.

RASBURY, Lester C. (b. 1917)

Interview ID#
OH 0438
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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 Prison Camp, Batavia, 1942; Changi Prison Camp, Singapore, 1942; building the Burma-Thailand Death Railway, 1942-44; Tamarkan, Thailand, 1944; railroad maintenance in Burma, 1944-45; liberation.

RETZLOFF, Henry (b. 1922)

Interview ID#
OH 0452
His experiences at Kaneohe Naval Air Station withthe Base Transportation Department during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7,1941.

ROCH, Herbert (b. 1911)

Interview ID#
OH 0357
His experiences at Schofield Barracks with the MP detachment during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.

ROGERS, Richard (b. 1943)

Interview ID#
OHB 0004
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President, Mary Kay Cosmetics. Recollections of his mother’s (Mary Kay. selling career and its impact on her own company; relations with sales personnel; their decision to form own company; marketing and sales motivation; wig business; pricing; dual management system; legal aspects and government regulations; views on government regulation, self-…

TOULOUSE, Robert B. (b. 1918)

Interview ID#
OH 1787
For Richard Rafes’s dissertation, “The Historical Development of Texas College of Osteopathic Medicine as a State Medical School, 1960-1975.” Former UNT employee. History of TCOM.

MARTÍNEZ-EBERS, Dr. Valerie (b. 1956)

Interview ID#
OH 1853
Professor of Political Science at the University of North Texas and former UNT student. Childhood as an Army brat; education; family background; discrimination against Mexican Americans; attending UNT with a Mexican American ancestry; growing awareness of ethnicity and ethnic identity; student activism; differences in treatment and attitudes…

FITZGERALD, Diane (b. 1940)

Interview ID#
OH 1882
For the American History: Voluntary Simplicity Oral History Project. Homesteader and simple life advocate. Childhood; early experiences with farming and outdoors; move to Maine; discovery of the Nearings; decision to homestead; memories of the Nearings.

STILES, John (b. 1946)

Interview ID#
OH 1909
For the Air America Oral History Project. Fighter pilot and U.S. Air Force veteran. Recounts his training as a fighter pilot during the war in Vietnam. Shares how he and a fellow pilots planes were shot down in Northern Laos and how Air America rescued them.

HUYNH, Thanh Kim (b. 1953)

Interview ID#
OH 1827
For the DFW Metroplex Immigration Oral History Project. Vietnamese-born immigrant to Carrollton, Texas. Childhood in Vietnam; memories of Vietnam War; experiences as a helicopter pilot for the South Vietnamese Army; evacuation to Guam; transfer to the U.S.; life in America; culture shock; settlement in Dallas-Fort Worth area; immigration process…

WAYBOURN, William (b. 1947)

Interview ID#
OH 1808
For the Dallas LGBT Oral History Project. Businessman and pioneering Dallas LGBT activist. Childhood in West Texas; journalism career; coming out; Resource Center of Dallas; Dallas gay community; Dallas Gay Political Caucus; Crossroads Market and the “gayborhood;” gay rights activism; 1979 March on Washington; Dallas Gay Alliance and off-shoot…

BAGSBY, Dionne Phillips (b. 1936)

Interview ID#
OH 1942
Former member of the Tarrant County Commissioners Court. Memories of childhood and education in Markham, Illinois; marriage to Jim Bagsby; participation in the Arkansas civil rights movement; move to Fort Worth, Texas; career as an educator in the Fort Worth public schools; Jim Bagsby’s political career; her own decision to enter politics and…

DICKINSON, Mary (b. 1980)

As the Regional Sustainable Design Leader for the Texas offices of Perkins and Will, a member of the firm’s Sustainable Design Council, and Co-Director with Max Richter of the Materials Performance Research Lab, Mary Dickinson integrates research thinking, advanced sustainable technologies, healthy material protocols, and evidence-based processes…

WEHRELL, William "Jake" (b. 1935)

Interview ID#
OH 2020
For the Air America Oral History Project. Marine Corps veteran and Air America pilot. Childhood and education in New Jersey and Central College; decision to enlist in the Marine Corps during the Korean War; experiences while stationed at El Toro, California, Japan, Cherry Point, NC, Parris Island, SC, and Beaufort, SC, and aboard an aircraft…