Airline executive. Education; background in accounting; executive experiences with Trans-Texas airways; American Airlines, Southern Airways, Central Airlines (merged with Frontier), Universal Airlines; presidency of Southwest Airlines; legal battles; growth and expansion; advertising; relations with Dallas and Fort Worth city governments;…

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 aboard the cruiser USS Helena during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.

Pastor. His experiences as a resident of Hamilton Park, Texas, 1954-91. Youth in South-central Texas; Marine Corps experience in World War II; early employment in Dallas; African-American housing problems in Dallas; decision to buy home in Hamilton Park; home improvements; shopping; social activities; church activities; Hamilton Park School; Civic…

Owner and operator, B. F. Warden Grocery Store, Bertram, Texas. Family background; work on family farm in Bertram; educational experiences in Bertram schools; employment as a teller in A. B. McGill’s bank and D. C. Reed’s bank, Bertram;comments concerning D. C. Reed’s business activities; employment as cashier with Briggs State Bank, Burnet County…

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 Surabaya, 1942; Changi Prison Camp, Singapore, 1942; hell ship to Japan, 1943; Nagasaki shipyards, 1943-45; Orio, Kyushu, 1945, and American air raids; liberation; description of damage at Nagasaki…

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

Her experiences as an employee of the Red River Army depot in Texarkana, Arkansas, during World War II and the postwar years. Hiring and promotion practices; relations between male and female workers; social activities; social and economic effects of depot on Texarkana.

OWENS, C. B. Founder and chairman of board, Owens Country Sausage, Family background; farm life; education; starting part-time home delivery sausage business from home farm; early productions methods; first wholesale account with Wyatt Stores, 1933; first processing "plant," full-time business retail store, butcher shop; expansion of territory,…

Trucker. His experiences while employed by the Civilian Conservation Corps during the Great Depression.

Businessman, Holocaust survivor. His experiences during the Holocaust. Family background; youth in Krakow, Poland; prewar anti-Semitism; reaction to German invasion; forced-labor battalions; formation of Krakow Ghetto; ghetto life; smuggling activities; transports to concentration camps and deportation of parents in July, 1942; his marriage in the…

His experiences with the 5th Bomb Group at Hickam Field during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.

Her experiences as a riveter at Armstrong Cork and Rubber Company, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, during World War II. Effects of the Great Depression on her family; her first job experience in a knitting mill; incentives to seek a job as a riveter with Armstrong, 1942; transportation problems; shift work; wage discrimination; length of the workday and…

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;…

His experiences while employed by the Civilian Conservation Corps during the Great Depression. Childhood in Texas; joining the CCC; assignment to Company 856 in Palisades Park at Palo Duro Canyon near Amarillo, Texas; company move to Bowie, Texas; description of camps; life in camps.

His experiences while aboard the auxiliary repair ship USS Vestal during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.

Farmer-rancher, Robstown, Texas. Family background; farming and social activities near Hillje, Texas; comments on preserving meat; description of family farm auction, 1924; employment as cottonseed culler operator, Robstown, 1925; establishment of meat delivery route, 1925; operation of cafe; comments on leasing farm, 1926; purchase of farm, 1928…

His experiences concerning his association with General Roger Ramey, 1937-57. Operations against Rabaul in the Pacific Theater during World War II; atomic bomb tests at Kwajalein and Eniwetok, 1946 (Project CROSSROADS); relationship between Ramey and Fort Worth, Texas, promoter Amon Carter; his personal and professional relations with Ramey; Ramey…

For the DFW Metroplex Immigration Oral History Project. West German-born Colombian immigrant to Denton, Texas. Childhood in West Germany; life in Colombia during the 1990s violence; family’s immigration to Texas; expectations of the U.S.; culture shock in the U.S.; transition to American life; attending college as an international student;…

His experiences aboard the cruiser USS Phoenix during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.

For the Dallas LGBT Oral History Project. Educator, politician, and LGBT rights advocate. Graduate school experience; gay community; memories of Donald Baker; discrimination against gay men in the public school system; struggle for LGBT civil rights; childhood and young adult years; family history; work within the gay community; Dallas Women’s…

For the Dallas LGBT Oral History Project. President and CEO at AIDS Service of Dallas, lawyer, and longtime activist in the Dallas LGBT community. Childhood in Michigan; move to Chicago, Illinois, and then to the Dallas, Texas area for college; work for Dallas County Juvenile Department; law school in San Antonio, Texas; coming out; involvement…

For the Denton Women’s Interracial Fellowship Oral History Project. Contemporary state of civil rights progress; Denton Women’s Interracial Fellowship; discrimination; poverty; Quakertown; continued community involvement; women’s rights; educational and professional background; activism; contemporary civil rights issues; contemporary politics;…

For the DFW Metroplex Immigrants Oral History Project. Australian-born immigrant to Fort Worth, Texas. Childhood in Australia; interaction with American soldiers during World War II; Japanese invasion of Australia; first visit to the U.S.; first impressions of America; first marriage to an American; return to Australia for immigration process;…

Physician, Holocaust survivor. His experiences during the Holocaust. Childhood in Budapest; family’s practice of Judaism; anti-Semitism before Nazi invasion; anti-Jewish laws in 1930s; Hungarian declaration of war against Soviet Union and formation of Jewish labor battalions, 1941; German occupation of Hungary, 1944; deportations from countryside…