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Oral History Interview with Admiral J. Lloyd Abbot, Jr., March 14, 1998
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Transcript of an interview with Admiral J. Lloyd Abbot, Jr., a Navy veteran, comments about his service in the Pacific Theater during World War II. Abbot discusses the U. S. Naval Academy, 1935-39; assignment to USS Enterprise, 1939; assignment to USS Gilmer, 1939-41; flight training at Pensacola, 1941; assignment to Advanced Carrier Training Group (Pacific), 1941-42; assignment to VF-6 (Fighting 6) aboard the USS Enterprise, 1942; assignment to VS-1D-14 in the South Pacific, 1942-43; commandin…
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Date:
March 14, 1998
Creator:
Alexander, William J. & Abbot, J. Lloyd, Jr.
Oral History Interview with Albert L. Fickel, May 14, 1976
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Interview with Albert Fickel, U.S. Navy veteran, concerning his experiences aboard the battleship USS Pennsylvania during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
Date:
May 14, 1976
Creator:
Marcello, Ronald E. & Fickel, Albert L.
Oral History Interview with Alvin O. Berg, Jr., May 14, 2005
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Interview with Alvin O. Berg, Jr., World War II-era Army Air Forces veteran, as part of the Tarrant County War Veterans History Project. The interview includes Berg's personal experiences of childhood and education, enlisting in the Army Air Forces, training as an aviation cadet and service at various stateside bases, fighting in the Pacific theater, having a postwar career in minor league baseball, returning to service during the Korean conflict, and having a career as a pilot for American Air…
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Date:
May 14, 2005
Creator:
Johnston, Glenn T. & Berg, Alvin O., Jr.
Oral History Interview with Ben Barnes, 1967-1968
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Interview with Ben Barnes, who was the Speaker of the Texas House of Representatives in 1964-68, the lieutenant governor in 1968-72, and a Democrat from Austin, Texas. In the interview, Barnes shares his thoughts and opinions on several procedures, laws, and political decisions, including reapportionment, the “one-man, one vote” decision of U.S. Supreme Court, state water systems, and state employee pay raise. He also comments on federal-state relations, revisions of Code of Criminal Procedures…
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Date:
August 14, 1967
Creator:
Gantt, Fred; Kamp, H. W. & Barnes, Ben
Oral History Interview with Bob and Ada Reed Brewer, March 14, 1984
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Interview with Ada Reed and Bob Brewer, owners and operators of A. B. McGill and Company General Merchants. In the interview, the Brewers discuss their family backgrounds, marriage, losses on charge accounts during the Great Depression, the change from clerk-service to self-service operation of the store, the credit business, purchasing clothes at the Dallas fashion market, customer interests, changes in product lines, commercial and residential growth in the Bertram area, using direct mail and…
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Date:
March 14, 1984
Creator:
Jenkins, Floyd; Brewer, Ada Reed & Brewer, Bob
Oral History Interview with Burlyce Logan, March 14, 2006 and February 6, 2017
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Interview with Burlyce Logan, one of the first African American students at North Texas, and UNT alumna whose college education began in 1956 and concluded in 2011. She recalls her childhood and education in Dallas and New York City; love of piano and musical education; decision to become one of the first African American students at North Texas; experiences as a college student, including racist incidents on campus, and as a boarder in Southeast Denton; decision to drop out in 1958; marriage t…
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2006-03-14/2017-02-06
Creator:
Thompson, Mark; Stallings, Chelsea & Logan, Burlyce
Oral History Interview with C. Shephard, July 14, 1988
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Interview with May Shephard, a teacher and a member of the Denton Christian Women's Interracial Fellowship from Tyler, Texas. Shephard explains her background and family, integration in schools, the history of race relations in Denton, her involvement with the group, their voting registration projects, demographics in the group, and how they performed outreach.
Date:
July 14, 1988
Creator:
Byrd, Richard W. & Shephard, MaeDell
Oral History Interview with Carol Blocker, October 14, 2022
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Interview with Carol Blocker, an activist from Chicago, Illinois. Blocker discusses postpartum activism, her experience with her daughter Melanie, the difference between postpartum psychosis and postpartum depression, the Melanie Blocker Stokes Act, and the lack of detailed information available about postpartum mental illnesses.
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Date:
October 14, 2022
Creator:
Moran, Rachel Louise & Blocker, Carol
Oral History Interview with Cece Cox, March 14, 2012
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Interview with Cece Cox, Executive Director of Resource Center of Dallas and longtime activist in the LGBT community. The interview includes Cox's personal experiences of childhood in Bartlesville, Oklahoma, her college years at Northwestern University, and coming out the family, friends, and co-workers. Cox talks about the awareness of her sexual orientation, the supportive reactions of family, her decision to move to Dallas, Texas for a job, her involvement in the Dallas LGBT community, thoug…
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March 14, 2012
Creator:
Mims, Michael & Cox, Cece
Oral History Interview with Charles A. Cates, March 14, 1974
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Interview with Charles A. Cates, a businessman, U.S. Army veteran (2nd Battalion, 131st Field Artillery, Texas National Guard), and a member of the "Lost Battalion," concerning his experiences as a prisoner-of-war of the Japanese during World War II. Cates talks about the fall of Java and his capture, Bicycle Camp in Batavia (1942), Changi Prison Camp in Singapore (1942), building the Burma-Thailand Death Railway (1943-1944), Kanchanaburi, Thailand (1944), Bangkok, Thailand (1945), and his libe…
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Date:
March 14, 1974
Creator:
Marcello, Ronald E. & Cates, Charles A., 1908-
Oral History Interview with Clark L. Taylor, September 14, 1979
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Interview with Captain Clark Taylor, an Army veteran (2nd Battalion, 131st Field Artillery, Texas National Guard) and a member of the "Lost Battalion," concerning his experiences as a prisoner-of-war of the Japanese during World War II. Taylor discusses the fall of Java and his capture, Bicycle Camp in Batavia (1942), Changi Prison Camp in Singapore (1942), building the Burma-Thailand Death Railway (1942-1944), Kanchanaburi and Tamarkan, Thailand (1944), American air raids, Bangkok, Thailand (1…
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Date:
September 14, 1979
Creator:
Marcello, Ronald E. & Taylor, Clark L., 1915-
Oral History Interview with Clay H. Musick, May 14, 1976
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Interview with Clay Musick, a Navy WWII veteran from Weslaco, Texas. Musick discusses his experiences aboard the USS Arizona during the attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7th, 1941, including joining the Navy in 1940, training, life and work aboard the Arizona, the bombing and sinking of the ship, his wounding and recovery, and work after discharge.
Date:
May 14, 1976
Creator:
Marcello, Ronald E. & Musick, Clay H.
Oral History Interview with Clifton B. Huff, May 14, 1982
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Interview with Clifton B. Huff, a United States Army veteran from McDade, Texas. Huff describes his recollections as a member of the 11th Field Artillery Brigade, Headquarters Battery, stationed at Schofield Barracks during the Japanese attack there and on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
Date:
May 14, 1982
Creator:
Marcello, Ronald E. & Huff, Clifton B.
Oral History Interview with Curtis O. Greer, Jr., February 14, 1991
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Interview with Curtis O. Greer, Jr., a former member of the Civilian Conservation Corps from Fort Worth, Texas, regarding his experiences and memories of participating in the CCC during the Great Depression. An appendix with an outline for the interview is included.
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Date:
February 14, 1991
Creator:
Maschino, Ellen & Greer, Curtis O., Jr.
Oral History Interview with Dan Wentrcek, December 14, 1976
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Interview with Navy veteran Dan Wentrcek. The interview includes Wentrcek's personal experiences while aboard the battleship USS Nevada during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
Date:
December 14, 1976
Creator:
Marcello, Ronald E. & Wentrcek, Dan
Oral History Interview with Diego Echevarria, October 14, 2015
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Interview with Diego Echevarria, an Mexican-American immigrant from Mexico City. Echevarria discusses his childhood, life in Mexico City, living in Piedras Negras, Coahuila, moving to Texas City, experiences in school, moving to Irving, Texas, ESL, reflections on Mexico City, the visa process, the DREAM Act, employment, and immigration rhetoric in America.
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Date:
October 14, 2015
Creator:
Nichols, Cynthia & Echevarria, Diego
Oral History Interview with Donald E. Francisco, April 14, 2022
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Interview with Donald E. Francisco, a University of North Texas graduate and a University of North Carolina emeritus professor of Environmental Sciences and Engineering. Francisco discusses his background, education, his experience as a lab assistant at UNT, segregation and integration in Denton history, his involvement in the civil rights movement, working at a foundry, religion, teaching at and family.
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Date:
April 14, 2022
Creator:
Moye, Todd & Francisco, Donald E.
Oral History Interview with Doris Groves, July 14, 2014
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Interview with Doris Groves, a homesteader from Pequannock, New Jersey. Groves discusses growing up, school, her first marriage, moving to Maine, discovering Scott and Helen Nearing's work and meeting Helen, her second marriage and children, purchasing a stead, the family's lifestyle, the Good Life Center, gender, vegetarianism, and the Nearings.
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Date:
July 14, 2014
Creator:
Pomerleau, Clark A. & Groves, Doris
Oral History Interview with Estel G. Burns, October 14, 2009
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Interview with Estel G. Burns, World War II veteran and B-17 pilot, as part of the Tarrant County War Veterans Project. The interview includes Burns' personal experiences of childhood and education in Missouri, farm life in the Great Depression, basic training, and training for aviation mechanics at Sheppard Field, Texas. Additionally, Burns talks about his family history, his 1942 enlistment in Army Air Corps, being accepted into pilot training, marriage to Dorothy Perrin, life at Deenethorpe …
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Date:
October 14, 2009
Creator:
Hegi, Benjamin P. & Burns, Estel G.
Oral History Interview with Eugene Callahan, October 14, 1976
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Interview with Eugene Callahan, U.S. Navy WWII veteran, concerning his experiences aboard the destroyer USS Worden during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
Date:
October 14, 1976
Creator:
Marcello, Ronald E. & Callahan, Eugene, 1914-
Oral History Interview with Eugene Camp, October 14, 1977
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Interview with Eugene Camp, U.S. Army WWII Veteran. Camp discusses his experiences at Camp Malakole with Battery B, 251st Coast Artillery, during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
Date:
October 14, 1977
Creator:
Marcello, Ronald E. & Camp, Eugene C., 1920-
Oral History Interview with Eugene Camp, October 14, 1977
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Transcript of audio interview with Eugene Camp, a United States Army veteran, regarding his experiences during the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor of December 7, 1941, while stationed at Camp Malakole. Camp discusses receiving survivors from the minesweeper Oglala and seeing the battleship Nevada run aground.
Date:
October 14, 1977
Creator:
Marcello, Ronald E. & Camp, Eugene
Oral History Interview with Fred Agnich, November 14, 1977
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Interview with Fred Agnich, businessman and member of the Texas House of Representatives from Dallas, Republican. The interview includes Agnich's personal views concerning the development of water resources in Texas.
Date:
November 14, 1977
Creator:
Marcello, Ronald E. & Agnich, Fred
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