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

Stage director. His recollections of his father, the artist Perry Nichols. Growing up at the family house/studio on Forest Park Road, Dallas, Texas, in the 1940s; his father’s first wife, Mary Nell Brooks; his description and identification of the…

Business executive. His experiences as a mechanic in the Southwest Pacific Theater during World War II. His family background and education; influence of the Great Depression on his military and civilian careers; his decision to enlist in the Marine…

Telephone technician. His experiences while employed by the Civilian Conservation Corps during the Great Depression. Childhood in Fort Worth, Texas; joining the CCC; assignment to a camp near Nogales, Arizona; relocation to Company 1826 at F-30…

His experiences while employed by the Civilian Conservation Corps during the Great Depression. Childhood in Limestone County, Texas; joining the CCC; assignment to Fort Parker in Springfield, Texas; description of camp; life in camp.

His experiences as an instructor pilot and ferry pilot, and missions flying cargo over “the Hump” (the Himalayas) during World War II.

Test pilot, aviation executive, and Deputy Secretary of Defense. Childhood in Oklahoma, Kansas, and Illinois; work as a young man in the oil fields; family’s experience in the Great Depression; matriculation at Kansas University; enrollment in…

For the Tarrant County War Veterans Oral History Project. Childhood in North Fort Worth and vocational education received at Technical High School; enlistment in U.S. Navy at age of seventeen; assignment to USS Rockaway and USS Wyandot, USS Paiute,…

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…

Civilian Conservation Corps veteran. Childhood in western Pennsylvania; father’s work as a farmer, coal miner, and WPA blacksmith; life on farms and in mining towns during the Great Depression; decision to enroll in CCC before eighteenth birthday;…

Banker, chairman of board, First State Bank of Denton. Family background; father’s role in founding First State Bank of Denton; education; work with various federal and state agencies; early experiences in banking; presidency of Texas Bankers…

President, Tex-Tan Western Leather Company, Yoakum, Texas. Father’s development of leather tanning business in Yoakum; line of leather products; comments on effects of Depression and World War II on business; tanning processes; saddletree production…