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MAJOR, Brenda (b. 1950)

Interview ID#
OH 2056
For the Postpartum Depression and Maternal Mental Health Oral History Project. Brenda Major discusses her training and work in psychology, including her research into women and achievement. Then the majority of the interview is on her work studying women’s psychological causal attributions around abortion, research conducted in the 1980s. Major…
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WILLIAMS, Alec (b. 1948)

Interview ID#
OH 2096

For the Denton County Historical Commission. Ancestry of the Williams family, Denton County history. 

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ROTH, Alyssah Vielka (b. 1992)

Interview ID#
OH 2152

Alyssah describes their relationship to food and how it has changed over time. Alyssah describes family traditions and how their attendance at the Border Health Network's camp for kids shaped her relationship to food, especially around issues of body image.

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ABBITT, Raymond E. (b. 1912)

Interview ID#
OH 0282
Episcopalian missionary. His experiences as a civilian internee of the Japanese in the Philippines during World War II. Capture on Mindanao; Davao internment camp, 1942-43; Santo Tomas, Manila, 1943; fall of Manila and liberation, 1945.
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ALLEN, Robert M. (b. 1923)

Interview ID#
Oh 1083
His experiences while temporarily assigned to the Submarine Base during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. (His permanent assignment was aboard the aircraft tender USS Avocet. He was attending signalman school at the Submarine Base).
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ARMSTRONG, Bob (b. 1932)

Interview ID#
OH 0606
Attorney, former Texas Land Commissioner. His views concerning water policy in Texas. Early political activities; race for Land Commissioner; multiple use environmentalism; land use planning; environmentalism vs. economics; coastal zone management; water resource development; Trinity Barge Canal; strip mining legislation; forest management; Carter…
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BANKS, John T. (b. 1916)

Interview ID#
OH 0828
Welder. His experiences while employed by of the Civilian Conservation Corps during the Great Depression. Childhood in the Dallas-Fort Worth area; joining the CCC; assignment to camps near Laramie, Wyoming (Camp 3876); Santa Paula, California; Coquille, Oregon; and Lake Worth, Texas (Camp 1816); description of camps; life in camps; post-CCC work.
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BEKKER, Pola (b. 1918)

Interview ID#
OH 1157
Homemaker, Holocaust survivor. Her experiences during the Holocaust. Youth in Warsaw, Poland; pre-Nazi anti-Semitism; German invasion of Poland and family's decision to flee to the Soviet Union, 1941; life in Orsk; return to Poland after World War II; emigration to Israel and then to the United States [Note: Portions of Mrs Bekker's responses are…
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BLANTON, Jack (b. 1921)

Interview ID#
OH 0141
His experiences and personal views as a member of the Second, Third, and Fourth Special Sessions of the Sixty-second Legislature. House speakership race; House rules reform; appropriations bill; insurance legislation; comments about Governor Preston Smith.
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BRADLEY, J. D. (b. 1927)

Interview ID#
OH 1502
Postmater. His experiences and observations as a guard during the International Military Tribunal for the Far East in Tokyo after World War II. Enlistment in the Army, October 3, 1946; basic training, Fort Dix, New Jersey, 1946; voyage across the Pacific to Japan, February, 1947; stopovers at Oahu and Guam; assignment to the 720th MP Battalion at…
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BROWN, Evelyn (b. 1942)

Interview ID#
OH 1667
For the Tarrant County War Veterans Oral History Project. Vietnam War-era veteran of the US Navy. Childhood and education in Pennsylvania; decision to attend nursing school; “coming out” experience; decision to enlist in Navy Nurse Corps in 1969; assignment to facilities in Florida, Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, Camp Lejeune, N.C., and Quantico, Va.;…
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BUTTON, R. F. (b. 1910)

Interview ID#
OH 0253
His experiences as a former Denton County, Texas, whiskey maker.
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CASON, Otis (b. 1897)

Interview ID#
OH 1443
For the Ray Roberts Lake Oral History Project. Farmer. His experiences and observations concerning rural life in Denton County, Texas, 1900-1987. Breaking mules; rural school; sheep and goat raising; hog killing; charcoal making.
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CLARY, Alla (b. 1889)

Interview ID#
OH 0048
Former secretary to Representative Sam Rayburn. Her personal recollections and experiences from her many years of service in the office of Congressman Rayburn in Washington, D. C.
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COOK, James (b. 1923)

Interview ID#
OH 0734
His experiences while aboard the repair ship USS Rigel during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
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CRONE, Michael (b. 1976)

Interview ID#
OH 1679
For the Tarrant County War Veterans Oral History Project. Childhood in Wichita Falls and Arlington, Tex.; family’s tradition of military service; decision to enlist in U.S. Marine Corps Reserves in 1995; experiences in boot camp at Camp Pendleton, Cal.; training as diesel mechanic; realization that he would be activated and shift in reservist…
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DANIELS, Rosa Lee (b. 1904)

Interview ID#
OH 0932
Her experiences as a student at the Frederick Douglass Colored School, Denton, Texas, 1910-21. School facilities; comments about her teachers; discipline; school equipment and facilities; segregation and Klan activities in Denton.
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DETRE, George E. (b. 1918)

Interview ID#
OH 0475
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 Death Railway, 1942-44; Kanchanaburi, Thailand, 1944; Singapore, 1944-45; hell ship…
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DUNN, A. J. (b. 1922)

Interview ID#
OH 0431
His experiences while aboard the heavy minelayer USS Ogallala during the Japanese attack Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
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ELMORE, Odis (b. 1918)

Interview ID#
OH 0229
His experiences at Hickam Field with the post medical detachment during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
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FENDELL, Ed (b. 1932)

Interview ID#
OH 1592
For the Skylab Oral History Project. NASA communications engineer and assistant flight director. Memories of childhood in New Britain, Conn.; service in Korean War-era Air Force; 1963 decision to join NASA; communications work for Apollo, Skylab, International Space Station, and Space Shuttle program missions; trouble-shooting for Skylab missions…
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FOMBY, William W. (b. 1919)

Interview ID#
OH 0564
His experiences while aboard the battleship USS Oklahoma during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
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GALEASSI, Ernest (b. 1920)

Interview ID#
OH 0778
His experiences at Hickam Field with the 324th Signal Company during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
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GILBREATH, Walter (b.1922)

Interview ID#
OH 1688
For the Tarrant County War Veterans Project. Longtime North Texas business owner. Childhood in Navarro County, Texas, Altus, Oklahoma, and Lewisville, Texas; parents’ divorce and family break-up; struggles to survive in the Great Depression; experience working with heavy landscaping machinery in Civilian Conservation Corps at camps in Wyoming…
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GRAHAM, Larry (b. 1953)

Interview ID#
OH 1528
Businessman. His experiences while attending the Texas International Pop Festival, Lewisville, Texas, August 30-September 1, 1969. His first experiences with the Sixties counterculture at Allen’s Landing, Houston, Texas; his attraction to rock ‘n roll music; his earning the nickname “The Diller” from distributing Armadillo Comics in high school;…
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