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

His experiences as a B-17 pilot in the European Theater during World War II.

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

College professor. His experiences while chair of the faculty search committee that was responsible for the selection of C. C. (“Jitter”) Nolen as president of North Texas State University.

Attorney, member of the Texas State Senate from Galveston, Democrat. His experiences and personal views as a member of the Sixty-second Legislature. Revenue bills; corporate profits tax; Sharpstown stock-fraud scandal; redistricting.

Attorney, member of the Texas State Senate from Galveston, Democrat. His experiences and personal views as a member of the Sixty-first Legislature. One-year versus two-year budget; revenue bills; welfare spending; need for constitutional revision; urban-rural conflict; minimum wages for migrant workers; education legislation; unrest on college campuses; personal legislation; comments about Governors John Connally and Preston Smith.

Survivor of the sinking of 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; Tamarkan, and Nakhon Pathom, Thailand, 1944-45; Saigon and Da Lat, French Indo-China, 1945; liberation.

His experiences while aboard the destroyer USS Downes during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.

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

Attorney. His experiences as a B-17 pilot in the European Theater during World War II.