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[Oral History Interview with P. K. Carlton, June 30, 2004, Part 3]

Description: Part 3 of an interview with U.S. Army Air Forces and U.S. Air Force veteran General P. K. Carlton. Carlton speaks about his association with General Curtis LeMay, bomber operations against Japan and Japanese occupied territory, his assignment with the Strategic Air Command Operations staff under LeMay, and the role of the SAC and the B-52 in relations with the Soviets. Additionally, Carlton speaks about LeMay's role in creating a safety program for the SAC and in building SAC's communications s… more
Date: June 30, 2004
Duration: 1 hour 2 minutes 46 seconds
Creator: Hurley, Alfred F. & Carlton, P. K.
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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Oral History Interview with Mrs. Fred H. Ferguson, March 13, 1970

Description: Interview with Hattie Bell McKamey Ferguson (Mrs. Fred H. Ferguson), farmer and homemaker, who shares her observations on the land speculation, settlement, and development in the Coastal Bend area of South Texas from 1910 to 1970. She also discusses small town social life, the agrarian life, Mexican-Anglo relations, and King Ranch.
Date: March 13, 1970
Creator: Stephens, A. Ray & Ferguson, Hattie Bell McKamey, 1911-
Partner: UNT Oral History Program

Oral History Interview with Paula Doress-Worters, February 10, 2020

Description: Interview with Paula Doress-Worters, founding member of the Boston Women’s Health Collective (1969) and author of the postpartum chapters in the booklet, Women and their Bodies (1969), and the book Our Bodies, Ourselves (1970). She discusses her own postpartum illness and hospitalization in 1966, and her experience with the Boston Women’s Collective and Our Bodies, Ourselves.
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Date: February 10, 2020
Creator: Moran, Rachel Louise & Doress-Worters, Paula B. (Paula Brown)
Partner: UNT Oral History Program
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Oral History Interview with Ben Barnes, January 5, 1970

Description: Interview with former Democratic Speaker of the Texas House of Representatives, Lieutenant Governor Ben Barnes. The interview includes Barnes' personal experiences while serving as a member of the Sixty-first Legislature, as well as his thoughts on issues such as one-year versus two-year budgets, the creation of four-year colleges, the influence of beer and liquor lobbyists, sales tax exemptions, revenue legislation, annual legislative sessions, and future political ambitions. The interview als… more
Date: January 5, 1970
Creator: Marcello, Ronald E. & Barnes, Ben
Partner: UNT Oral History Program
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Oral History Interview with L. DeWitt Hale, October 16, 1970

Description: Interview with former Democratic member of the Texas House of Representatives L. DeWitt Hale, an attorney from Corpus Christi, Texas. The interview includes Hale's personal experiences as a member of the Sixty-first Legislature, as well as his views on one-year versus two-year budgets, revenue bills, corporate income tax, welfare legislation, state minimum wage law, education legislation, the creation of new four-year colleges, beer and liquor lobbies, changes in state sales tax base, personal … more
Date: October 16, 1970
Creator: Marcello, Ronald E. & Hale, L. DeWitt
Partner: UNT Oral History Program
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Oral History Interview with O. H. "Ike" Harris, September 7, 1977

Description: Interview with O. H. ("Ike") Harris, an attorney and a Republican member of the Texas Senate from Dallas, Texas, concerning his experiences and personal views as a member of the Sixty-fifth Legislature. Harris discusses the budget surplus, appropriations, the highway bill, public school financing, his personal legislation, and Governor Dolph Briscoe.
Date: September 7, 1977
Creator: Marcello, Ronald E. & Harris, Ike, 1932-
Partner: UNT Oral History Program
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Oral History Interview with A. R. Schwartz, May 6, 1970

Description: Interview with former Democratic Texas Senator A. R. Schwartz, an attorney from Galveston, Texas. The interview includes Schwartz's experiences as a member of the Sixty-first Legislature, as well as his personal views on issues such as one-year versus two-year budgets, revenue bills, welfare spending, constitutional revisions, urban-rural conflicts, minimum wages for migrant workers, education legislation, unrest on college campuses, and personal legislation. The former Senator's comments about… more
Date: February 8, 1971
Creator: Marcello, Ronald E. & Schwartz, Aaron Robert, 1926-
Partner: UNT Oral History Program

Oral History Interview with Denise Bates, May 15, 2019

Description: Transcript of an interview with Denise Bates, an architect and interior designer who works at Gensler, discussing building construction and renovation that employ sustainability and resilient design, and how those concepts and codified standards have changed over time.
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Date: May 15, 2019
Creator: Bates, Denise & Stark, Johnnie
Partner: UNT Oral History Program
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Oral History Interview with Jack Blanton, June 30, 1970

Description: Interview with a Democratic member of the Texas House of Representatives Jack Blanton, who is also a businessman from Carrollton, Texas. In the interview, Blanton discusses his experiences and personal views as a member of the Sixty-first Legislature. He also expresses his opinions on issues including his personal political philosophies, one-year versus two-year budgets, the Caveness Plan, social legislation, the establishment of the University of Texas at Dallas, the creation of new four-year … more
Date: June 30, 1970
Creator: Marcello, Ronald E. & Blanton, Jack
Partner: UNT Oral History Program
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Oral History Interview with Walt Parker, February 4, 1970

Description: Interview with Democratic member of the Texas House of Representatives Walt Parker, who is also a builder and farmer-rancher from Denton, Texas. In the interview, Parker describes details from his childhood and early years. He recounts his personal views and experiences as a member of the Sixty-first Legislature, and includes comments on Governor Preston Smith. Parker also discusses his personal views on issues including revenue legislation, the influence of lobbyists, state minimum wage law, t… more
Date: February 4, 1970
Creator: Marcello, Ronald E. & Parker, Walt
Partner: UNT Oral History Program
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Oral History Interview with Uell M. Carter and George Killian, September 19, 1970

Description: Interview with Uell M. Carter and George Killian, who are both World War II veterans and members of the "Lost Battalion" from Amarillo, Texas. In the interview, the two veterans describe what it was like to be Japanese prisoners-of-war. They both discuss their experiences and memories of the fall of Java and the capture of Surabaja in 1942, and also of the bicycle camp Batavia in 1942-45.
Date: September 19, 1970
Creator: Marcello, Ronald E.; Carter, Uell M. & Killian, George
Partner: UNT Oral History Program

Oral History Interview with Robert Toulouse, July 11, 1990

Description: Interview with Robert Toulouse, Dean of the University of North Texas Graduate School from Denton, Texas. Toulouse discusses the Texas College of Osteopathic Medicine and his involvement in the merger of the college with NTSU/UNT.
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Date: July 11, 1990
Creator: Rafes, Richard & Toulouse, Robert
Partner: UNT Oral History Program

Oral History Interview with Dennie Wolf, September 9, 2019

Description: Transcript of an interview with Dennie Wolf, co-author of chapters on postpartum recovery in the 1979 book Ourselves and Our Children and the 1984 version Our Bodies Ourselves, both publications of the Boston Women’s Health Collective. This interview includes discussion of postpartum depression, the women’s health movement, second wave feminism, and development psychology. The interview is part of the postpartum depression project.
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Date: September 9, 2019
Creator: Moran, Rachel Louise & Wolf, Dennie
Partner: UNT Oral History Program
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Oral History Interview with O. H. "Ike" Harris, July 6, 1971

Description: Interview with Senator Ike Harris, a Republican Texas state legislator from Dallas, Texas. Harris discusses the first regular session of the 62nd State Legislature in early 1971, including his response to Governor Smith's bond financing plan, his thoughts on Governor Smith as a statesman, state tuition, taxation, education reform, the Sharpstown case, and redistricting.
Date: July 6, 1971
Creator: Marcello, Ronald E. & Harris, Ike, 1932-
Partner: UNT Oral History Program
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Oral History Interview with David Allred, April 7, 1970

Description: Interview with Democratic Representative and political journalist David Allred from Wichita Falls, Texas. In the interview, Dave discusses his experiences as a member of the Special sessions of the Sixty-first Legislature. He also describes his personal views on issues including one-year versus two-year budgets, increases in sales tax, the expansion of sales tax, "grocery tax", conflicts with Speaker Gus Mutscher, beer lobbying, corporate taxes, voter disillusionment, urban-rural conflicts, Wic… more
Date: April 7, 1970
Creator: Marcello, Ronald E. & Allred, David
Partner: UNT Oral History Program
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Oral History Interview with Ben H. Wooten, 1969

Description: Interview with Ben H. Wooten, a banker, public servant, and philanthropist. The interview includes Wooten's observations on the growth and development of banking and finance in the Southwest. The interview also includes his experiences in service during World War I as well as his multiple positions within the banking industry, including: assistant cashier of the Alba National Bank in Alba, Texas, cashier of the Farmers and Merchants Bank in Farmersville, Texas, state bank examiner, Federal Home… more
Date: February 19, 1970
Creator: Marcello, Ronald E. & Wooten, Ben H.
Partner: UNT Oral History Program
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Oral History Interview with Ben Barnes, 1967-1968

Description: 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… more
Date: August 14, 1967
Creator: Gantt, Fred; Kamp, H. W. & Barnes, Ben
Partner: UNT Oral History Program

Oral History Interview with Linda Pina, April 8, 2013

Description: Interview with Linda Pina, a cousin of UNT interviewer Francis Bravo from Fort Worth, Texas, interviewed for for the Mexican American Women's Educational Experience project. Pina discusses growing up, school, her parents' divorce, and her own children and their education. In appendix is Bravo and Pina's family tree.
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Date: April 8, 2013
Creator: Bravo, Francis & Pina, Linda
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Oral History Interview with Florence Shapiro, August 17, 1993

Description: Interview with Florence Shapiro, a state legislator, concerning her views of the impact and significance of women on the development of the Republican Party in Texas (1970-1993). Shapiro also discusses her initial involvement in local politics, her election to the Plano, Texas, City Council (1979-1990), her election as mayor of Plano (1990), her election to the Texas Legislature (1992), her views on social and fiscal conservatism and abortion, and the evolution of the Republican Party in Collin… more
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Date: August 17, 1993
Creator: Strickland, Kristi & Shapiro, Florence
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Oral History Interview with Zaida Basora, April 19, 2019

Description: Transcript of an interview with architect Zaida Basora about her career and her work with the Dallas Green Building program and other programs related to energy efficient design.
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Date: April 19, 2019
Creator: Stark, Johnnie & Basora-Adrian, Zaida
Partner: UNT Oral History Program

Oral History Interview with Antonio T. Chavez, October 11, 2013

Description: Interview with Antonio Chavez, a former UNT student from Sonora, Texas. Chavez discusses the desegregation of schools in Sonora, experiences in grade school and the disparity in quality between segregated schools, his father's grocery business, discrimination, majoring in elementary education, working in geophysics, attending North Texas State College, life in Denton and on campus, and raising his family.
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Date: October 11, 2013
Creator: Bynum, Katherine E. & Chavez, Antonio T.
Partner: UNT Oral History Program

Oral History Interview with George Gowen, May 3, 1993

Description: Interview with George Gowen, a Navy veteran, concerning his experiences aboard the destroyer Chevalier during the Battle of Vella Lavella in January 1943 in the Pacific Theater during World War II, and his naval career after World War II.
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Date: May 3, 1993
Creator: Byrd, Richard & Gowen, George
Partner: UNT Oral History Program
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