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GEE, James (b. 1920)

Interview ID#
OH 0110
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Sales executive, survivor of the sinking of the USS Houston. His experiences as a prisoner-of-war of the Japanese during World War II. Sinking of Houston, 1942; capture and imprisonment at Serang, Java; Bicycle Camp, Batavia, 1942; Changi Prison Camp, Singapore, 1942; building the Burma Thailand Death Railway, 1942-44; Kanchanaburi, Thailand, 1944…

GORDON, Ernest (b. 1916)

Interview ID#
OH 1071
Physician. His experiences and recollections as a prisoner-of-war of the Japanese during World War II after the fall of Malaya.

GRIFFIN, Richard (b. 1919)

Interview ID#
OH 1251
His experiences while employed by the Civilian Conservation Corps during the Great Depression. Childhood in Minneapolis, Minnesota; joining the CCC; assignment to Company 708 at Camp Rabideau in Blackduck, Minnesota; description of camp; life in camp.

HALL, Blaine (b.1921)

Interview ID#
OH 1639
For the Texas Textile Mill Oral History Project. Former employee of the Texas Textile Mill and longtime resident of McKinney, Texas. Early childhood and education in McKinney; father’s work in the mill; duties as a doffer in the mill’s spinning room; union involvement; World War II service; playing career with the Textile Millers, mill-sponsored…

HARRELL, Dora Velora (b. 1911)

Interview ID#
OH 0999
Her recollections about Texarkana, Texas, 1915-50. Education; local industries; church activities; social clubs and fraternal organizations; women’s issues.

HEALEY, Marie (b. 1914)

Interview ID#
OH 0866
Home economist. Her experiences as a vocational homemaking teacher with the National Youth Administration in Crockett, Texas, 1941, during the Great Depression.

HILL, Woodrow (b. 1918)

Interview ID#
OH 0727
His experiences while aboard the battleship USS Nevada during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor in December 7, 1941.

HOUSER, Oscar (b. 1941)

Interview ID#
OH 0922
Anesthetist. His experiences as an Army nurse in Vietnam, 1972-73. Decision to enter nurse training, the military; anesthesia school at William Beaumont Medical Center, 1972; attitudes toward Vietnam War; assignment to 95th Evacuation Hospital, China Beach, Vietnam; camp living conditions; work at Da Nang and Pleiku; treatment of battle casualties…

ISAACS, Kenneth (b. 1915) and Eliza (b. 1909)

Interview ID#
OH 0248
Navy veteran and his wife. His experiences while living in Honolulu and reporting aboard the repair ship USS Dobbin during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941; her experiences while living in Honolulu during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.

JOHNSON, Eddie Bernice (b. 1934)

Interview ID#
OH 0218
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Nurse, member of the Texas House of Representatives from Dallas, Democrat. Her experiences and personal views as a member of the Sixty-third Texas Legislature. Early life in a segregated society; early political activities; campaign for the Texas House of Representatives, 1972; Black Caucus; Women’s Caucus; reform legislation; appropriations;…

KAMENICKY, Albert L. (b. 1924)

Interview ID#
OH 0816
His experiences while aboard the cruiser USS Phoenix during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.

KIBLER, Morris (b. 1921) and Lillian (b. 1924)

Interview ID#
OHB 0022
Founders, owner, and operators of Kibler Office Supplies, Denton, Texas. KIBLER, Morris. Family background; early work experience, education; work as youth in Texas Legislature; Air Force, college teaching careers; office machine salesman; purchase of own business; growth and expansion; comments on self-employment. KIBLER, Lillian. Family…

KORAN, Stephen (b. 1913) and Flora Belle (b. 1912)

Interview ID#
OH 0236
Veteran and his wife. Their experiences at Wheeler Field (he as a member of the 86th Observation Squadron) during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.

LEBER, John R. (b. 1920)

Interview ID#
OH 1274
His experiences in the China-Burma-India Theater during World War II. Stateside training in California, Nebraska, and Texas; description of trip in C-46 from Savannah to Labrador, to New Foundland, to Greenland, to Iceland, to Scotland, to southern France, to Egypt, to Saudi Arabia, to Karachi; descriptions of local culture as part of "The Great…

LOWE, John (b. 1920)

Interview ID#
OH 0436
His experiences while aboard the tanker USS Neosho during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.

MATTHEWS, J. C. (b. 1901)

Interview ID#
OH 0360
Former president of North Texas State College and North Texas State University. His experiences concerning the desegregation of North Texas State College, 1954-56. Initial period of integration on campus; attitudes of student body, faculty, townspeople, board of regents; Atkins suit; Campus Theatre incident; desegregation of local businesses;…

McGUIRE, David C. (b. 1922)

Interview ID#
OH 0803
College professor. His career in music education and recollections concerning the development of the School of Music, North Texas State University.

MILLER, Hamilton S. (b. 1919)

Interview ID#
OH 0569
His experiences while aboard the destroyer USS Farragut during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.

MORRIS, Bessie (b. 1894)

Interview ID#
OH 0119
Homemaker. Her observations on the settlement and development of the Coastal Bend area of South Texas, 1910-20. Immigration from western Kansas; clearing the land; cotton farming; race relations; hurricane of 1919; rural social life.

NELSON, Ralph (b. 1923)

Interview ID#
OH 1745
His experiences while aboard the submarines USS Batfish and USS Parche in the Pacific Theater during World War II. Submarine School, San Diego, California, 1942; early torpedo problems; his responsibilities as a fire controlman; assignment to the Batfish, 1944; various patrols in the Luzon Strait and Makassar Strait; lifeguard duty off Palau for…

TAYLOR, Robert (b. 1909)

Interview ID#
OH 0255
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Protestant chaplain, survivor of the Bataan campaign. His experiences as a prisoner-of-war of the Japanese during World War II. Fall of Bataan and capture; Bilibid Prison, Manila, 1942; Cabanatuan, 1942-44; American air raids at Manila, 1944; hell ship to Japan, 1944; Fukuoka Prison Camp, Kyushu, 1945; Mukden, Manchuria, 1945; liberation by Soviet…

TOULOUSE, Robert B. (b. 1918)

Interview ID#
OH 1080
College administrator. His experiences during the desegregation of North Texas State College, 1954-56; comments about president J. C. Matthews.

VINCENT, Richard (b. 1924)

Interview ID#
OH 1615
Founding pastor of Metropolitan Church of Christ of Dallas. Family religious history; childhood in Missouri; creation of Circle of Friends congregation and Metropolitan Community Church in Dallas, and Universal Fellowship of Metropolitan Community Churches denomination; prison ministry; challenges of establishing a Christian church in Dallas with…

WEINBERG, Robert (b. 1922)

Interview ID#
OH 1402
His experiences as a B-24 navigator; also his experiences as a prisoner-of-war of the Germans in the European Theater during World War II. Enlistment in the Aviation Cadet Program, 1942; Cadet Classification Center, San Antonio, Texas, 1943; basic training, Lackland Field, San Antonio, 1943; pre-flight training, Ellington Field, Houston, Texas,…

WILLEY, Lloyd (b. 1914)

Interview ID#
OH 1295
Survivor of the sinking of the USS Houston. His experiences as a prisoner-of-war of the Japanese during World War II. Sinking of the Houston, 1942; capture and imprisonment at Serang, Java; Bicycle Camp, Batavia, 1942; Changi Prison Camp, Singapore, 1942; building the Burma-Thailand Death Railway, 1942-44; Tamarkan, Thailand, 1944; Nakhon Pathom…