For the Tarrant County War Veterans Oral History Project. Veteran of Operation Iraqi Freedom. Childhood in Savannah, Georgia; education at Valdosta State College; acceptance to U.S. Navy aviation officer candidate school; training at Pensacola,…

For the Tarrant County War Veterans Oral History Project. Veteran of Operation Iraqi Freedom. Childhood and education in Athens, Tex.; decision to enlist in U.S. Army; family’s tradition of military service; basic training at Ft. Benning, Ga.,…

For the Tarrant County War Veterans Oral History Project. Childhood and education in Fort Worth; decision to drop out of high school; decision to enlist in U.S. Army; experiences in basic training at Ft. Sill, Oklahoma; deployment to Kuwait and Iraq…

For the Tarrant County War Veterans Oral History Project. World War II veteran. Childhood and education in Fort Worth; decision to drop out of high school to play professional softball; decision to enlist in Women’s Army Corps in 1944; basic…

For the Tarrant County War Veterans Oral History Project. Childhood and education in California and Gatesville and White Settlement, Texas; decision in enlist in U.S. Army; basic training and advanced training as motor transport operator at Ft.…

For the DFW Metroplex Immigrants Oral History Project. Iranian-born immigrant to suburban Allen, Texas. Family history; memories of Iran; decision to immigrate to the U.S. in 1978; first impressions of the U.S.; opinions about the Iranian Revolution…

For the DFW Metroplex Immigrants Oral History Project. Mexican national and immigrant to suburban Princeton, Texas. Childhood and education in Mexico City; family’s decision to immigrate to Provo, Utah, in 1995; first impressions of the U.S.;…

For the DFW Metroplex Immigrants Oral History Project. Mexican-born immigrant to Arlington, Texas and UNT graduate student. Family history; childhood and education in Cuauhtémoc, Mexico; college experience at the University of Chihuahua; interest in…

Younger sister of Gen. Curtis LeMay. Family history; Ohio farm life during the Great Depression; brother’s visits, including a fly-over in a B-36 aircraft; Lemay’s World War II service and work in the Pentagon thereafter; feelings about his vice-…

For the DFW Metroplex Immigrants Oral History Project. Russian-born immigrant to suburban Plano, Texas. Childhood and education in Kazan, Russia, Poland, and Izhevsk, Russia; parents’ work as geophysicists; perceptions of glasnost and perestroika;…

For the DFW Metroplex Immigrants Oral History Project. German-born immigrant to Denton, Texas, and adjunct professor of Music at Texas Woman’s University. Childhood and education in Kiel and Hamburg, Germany; family history; parents’ move to South…

For the Weatherford Oral History Project. Family history; Parker County farming history; childhood and education in Weatherford; Depression-era struggles; enlistment in U.S. Navy; World War II service; studies at Weatherford College, Duke University…

For the Weatherford Oral History Project. Longtime resident of Weatherford, Texas. Family history; birth, childhood and education in Weatherford; Depression-era struggles; father's work with the Works Progress Administration; Weatherford during…

For the DFW Metroplex Immigrants Oral History Project. Thai-borne immigrant to Denton, Texas, and restaurateur. Childhood and education in rural Suphan Buri and urban Ranong and Bangkok, Thailand; decision to immigrate to U.S.; enrollment at North…

For the Weatherford Oral History Project. Longtime resident of Weatherford, Texas. Family history; birth, childhood, and education in Weatherford; 1961 enlistment in U.S. Army; service at various stateside bases; career in banking industry; changes…

For the Weatherford Oral History Project. Longtime resident and school administrator of Weatherford, Texas. Family history; birth, childhood, and education in Collin County, Texas; farm life in the Great Depression; World War II service in U.S. Navy…

For the DFW Metroplex Immigrants Oral History Project. Chinese-born immigrant to Denton, Texas. Childhood in Sichuan Province; family life; marriage; decision to give up high-powered, well-paying job to immigrate to U.S.; difficulties of immigration…

For the DFW Metroplex Immigrants Oral History Project. Director of Marketing and Sales Administration, Peterbilt Motors Company, and Italian immigrant. Purpose of migration to the United States; family background in Rome, Italy; education;…

For the Tarrant County War Veterans Oral History Project. Decision to drop out of college to join the U.S. Marine Corps; boot camp and training; assignment to combat unit; combat in Korea; combat at Hill 749 and Hill 884; battlefield injury at “the…

Executive director of Resource Center Dallas. Childhood in Ohio and Bartlesville, Oklahoma; education at Northwestern University; decision to move to Dallas; career as a photojournalist and studio photographer; “coming-out” narrative; involvement…

For the DFW Metroplex Immigrants Oral History Project. Mexican-born immigrant to Dallas, owner of Javier’s Gourmet Mexicano, a restaurant in Dallas. Childhood in Mexico City; how Mexico City has changed since he lived there; why his family decided…

For the DFW Metroplex Immigrants Oral History Project. Mexican-born immigrant to Dallas; chef, maintenance director for 2011 Cedar Springs building. Born in Durango, Mexico; early life with family in agriculture in the 1960s; educated in Mexico;…

For the DFW Metroplex Immigrants Oral History Project. Mexican-born immigrant to Denton, Texas, and UNT professor. Childhood in Mexico City; parents’ desire to relocate family to U.S.; decision to attend Graceland College in Lamoni, Iowa; culture…

For the DFW Metroplex Immigrants Oral History Project. Iranian-born immigrant to Dallas, Texas, restaurant owner and real estate investor. Coming to U.S. from Tehran, Iran; driving taxi cab and working in restaurants in Dallas; acquiring his…

Proprietor of Jack’s Backyard, a Dallas bar and restaurant. Childhood and education in Shreveport, Louisiana, and Dallas; “coming-out” narrative; social life in Dallas’s gay and lesbian bars; effects of AIDS epidemic on Dallas gay community; career…