Interviewee | HILL, Jack (b. 1922) |
Interview ID # | OH 1664 |
Date(s) of interview | |
Description | For the Texas Textile Mill Oral History Project. Former employee of the Texas Textile Mill. Childhood in McKinney, Texas; family’s experience in the Great Depression; decision to drop out of school to work in the mill at age of sixteen; lay-off due to new child labor laws, and decision to go to work at Wilson’s Grocery Store and later at Cole’s Groceries; enlistment in Army Air Forces during World War II and service in China-Burma-India Theater; tornado of 1948; career in retail sales. |
Interviewer(s) | Deborah Kilgore |
Physical Description | 48 pp. |
Terms of Use | Open |