Ronald E. Marcello | Oral History

Ronald E. Marcello

OH 0792

His experiences aboard the battleship USS West Virginia during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.

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.

OH 0082

His experiences and personal views as a member of the Regular and First Special Session of the Sixty-second Legislature. Revenue bills; corporate profits tax; Sharpstown stock-fraud scandal; legislative ethics; “Dirty Thirty”; appropriations; redistricting; personal legislation.

OH 0049

Businessman, member of the Texas House of Representatives from Carrollton, Democrat. His experiences and personal views as a member of the Sixty-first Legislature. Personal political philosophy; one-year versus two-year budget; Caveness Plan; social legislation; establishment of University of Texas at Dallas; creation of new four-year colleges; college campus unrest; revenue legislation; beer and liquor lobby; comments about Governor Preston Smith; personal legislation.

OH 0065

Survivor of the Bataan Death March. His experiences as a prisoner-of-war of the Japanese during World War II. Fall of Bataan and capture; Bataan Death March; Camp O’Donnell, 1942; Bilibid Prison, Manila, 1942; Cabanatuan, 1942-44; hell ship to Japan, 1944; Onomichi, Honshu, 1944-45; liberation.

OH 0501

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

OH 0975

His experiences at Kaneohe Naval Air Station with VP-14 during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.

OH 0386

Navy wife. Her experiences while living at Kaneohe Naval Air Station with her husband, Lieutenant Commander Oliver Billingsley, during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.