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Oral History Interview with Alexander Bate, September 19, 1986

Description: Interview with retired schoolteacher Alexander Bate. The interview includes Bate's personal experiences about the African American business community in Sherman, Texas, and the lynching of George Hughes. Bate also talks about being an African-American educator, and local race relations in Sherman.
Date: September 19, 1986
Creator: Kumler, Donna & Bate, Alexander
Partner: UNT Oral History Program

Oral History Interview with Alma Box, August 19, 1993

Description: Transcript of an interview with Alma Box concerning her views on the impact and significance of women on the development of the Republican Party in Texas (1960-1990). Box discusses her work for U.S. Congressman Jim Collins, the first senatorial campaign of John Tower, her personal political philosophy, the activities of the Texas Federation of Republican Women, and her views on the Religious Right, abortion, and the Eagle Forum.
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Date: August 19, 1993
Creator: Strickland, Kristi Throne & Box, Alma, 1930-
Partner: UNT Oral History Program

Oral History Interview with Barton B. Wallace, Jr., September 19, 2003

Description: Interview with Barton B. Wallace, Jr., engineer and Army veteran (Quartermaster Corps Graves Registration Service-China Zone), concerning his experiences with Recovery Team No. 4 in the recovery of the remains of American military personnel in China, 1945-46. Appendix consists of letters, chronology, Separation Qualification Record, and extracts from various forms.
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Date: September 19, 2003
Creator: Marcello, Ronald E. & Wallace, Barton B., Jr.
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 Bob Murphey, April 19, 1969

Description: Interview with attorney and former Sergeant-at-Arms of the Texas House of Representatives Bob Murphey, who is from Nacogdoches, Texas. Mr. Murphey is also an accomplished public speaker and the nephew of former Governor Coke Stevenson, who he comments on. In the interview, he discusses his experiences while serving as Sergeant-at-Arms. Mr. Murphey also describes his thoughts and personal views on the Stevenson-Johnson senatorial race of 1948.
Date: April 19, 1969
Creator: Odom, E. Dale & Murphey, Bob
Partner: UNT Oral History Program

Oral History Interview with Bobby Jones, June 19, 2014

Description: Interview with Dr. Bobby Jones, a veterinarian and epidemiologist from Southlake, Texas, whose family was prominent in the development of the community. Jones discusses his family history, growing up in a rural, segregated community, education at T. M. Terrell, race relations in Southlake, the Jones Annual Picnic, the Jones Gate cafe, the Civil Rights Act and desegregation, and the development of Southlake.
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Date: June 19, 2014
Creator: Fichera, Aaron & Jones, John Dolford "Bobby"
Partner: UNT Oral History Program

Oral History Interview with Brenda Major, December 19, 2019

Description: Interview with Dr. Brenda Major, a psychologist from Truckee, California. Major discusses her background, education, the influence of the women's movement, attribution theory, abortion psychology, traumatic post-abortion syndrome, and research on postpartum depression and other mental illnesses related to pregnancy.
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Date: December 19, 2019
Creator: Moran, Rachel Louise & Major, Brenda
Partner: UNT Oral History Program
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Oral History Interview with Carl Hatcher, May 19, 1974

Description: Interview with Carl Hatcher, U.S. Navy WWII veteran, concerning his experiences at Ford Island Naval Air Station with the Assembly and Repair Department during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
Date: May 19, 1974
Creator: Marcello, Ronald E. & Hatcher, Carl, 1921-
Partner: UNT Oral History Program

Oral History Interview with Charles W. Lindberg, February 19, 1998

Description: Transcript of an interview with Charles W. Lindberg, a Marine Corps veteran (3rd Platoon, E Company, 2nd Battalion, 28th Marine Regiment, 5th Marine Division), concerning experiences during the battle for Iwo Jima, February-March, 1945, in the Pacific Theater during World War II. Appendix includes a photocopy of a map of Iowa Jima and copies of multiple photographs of Mr. Lindberg with other Marines on and around Mt. Suribachi.
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Date: February 19, 1998
Creator: Marcello, Ronald E.; Chalkley, John & Lindberg, Charles W., 1920-2007
Partner: UNT Oral History Program

Oral History Interview with Charlye Heggins, February 19, 2013

Description: Interview with former Denton City Council member Charlye Heggins as part of the UNT African American Remembrance Project. The interview includes Heggins' personal experiences about her childhood, raising a family, doing volunteer work in Denton, and being involved with Texas politics. She particularly talks about discrimination and race issues in Denton during the 1970s and '80s. It includes an appendix with photographs and an article about her death.
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Date: February 19, 2013
Creator: Stallings, Chelsea & Heggins, Charlye
Partner: UNT Oral History Program

Oral History Interview with Dana Lodge, March 19, 2013

Description: Interview with Dana Lodge, an employee of the Denton Conventions and Visitors Bureau from Dallas, Texas. Lodge discusses growing up, her education, her work in the restaurant industry, entering the hospitality industry and her work with the Bureau, festivals and events in Denton, local history, and plans for the future of Denton. In appendix are pictures of the Denton County Courthouse and the Confederate Soldiers memorial. Includes an appendix.
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Date: March 19, 2013
Creator: Stallings, Chelsea & Lodge, Dana
Partner: UNT Oral History Program

Oral History Interview with David Webb, December 19, 1991

Description: Interview with Dr. David Webb, a librarian, concerning his experiences as Director of Libraries, Director of Library Services, and Professor of Library Services at North Texas State College and North Texas State University from 1953 to 1982.
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Date: December 19, 1991
Creator: Dickey, Richard & Webb, David A.
Partner: UNT Oral History Program

Oral History Interview with Dionne Bagsby, November 19, 2018

Description: Transcript of an interview with Dionne Phillips Bagsby, former member of the Tarrant County Commissioners Court. Bagsby shares memories of childhood and education in Markham, Illinois; marriage to Jim Bagsby; participation in the Arkansas civil rights movement; move to Fort Worth, Texas; career as an educator in the Fort Worth public schools; Jim Bagsby's political career; her own decision to enter politics and winning campaign strategies; issues she had to face as a county commissioner; her tr… more
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Date: November 19, 2018
Creator: Moye, J. Todd & Bagsby, Dionne Phillips, 1936-
Partner: UNT Oral History Program

Oral History Interview with Douglas Chadwick, July 19, 2012

Description: Interview with Douglas Chadwick, former executive director of the UNT Foundation from Dallas, Texas. Chadwick discusses his family background and education at Southern Methodist University, his career in administration, work as Director of Planned Giving at UNT, involvement with the UNT Foundation and work as executive director, building connections and financial support, changes in the Foundation through the years, thoughts on the future of the Foundation and University, and his retirement.
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Date: July 19, 2012
Creator: Kilgore, Deborah K. & Chadwick, Douglas
Partner: UNT Oral History Program

Oral History Interview with Emre Ersin Ozer, January 19, 2013

Description: Interview with Emre Ersin Ozer, a software engineer and immigrant to Texas from Sivas, Turkey. Ozer discusses his family background, his education, his marriage, Turkish culture and community in the US, the effect of the 2008 financial crisis, immigration, graduate school, work, and citizenship.
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Date: January 19, 2013
Creator: Hedrick, Amy & Ozer, Emre Ersin
Partner: UNT Oral History Program

Oral History Interview with Frank Curre, Jr., April 19, 2002

Description: Interview with Navy veteran Frank Curre Jr. The interview includes Curre's personal experiences about joining the Navy, boot camp, being aboard the battleship USS Tennessee during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor, and his subsequent experiences in the Pacific Theater during World War II. Additionally, Curre talks about pre-war shipboard life and training exercises, his activities during the attack on Pearl Harbor, aftermath of the attack, his transfer to the yard minesweeper YMS-102 at Breme… more
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Date: April 19, 2002
Creator: Marcello, Ronald E. & Curre, Frank, Jr.
Partner: UNT Oral History Program
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Oral History Interview with George Fukui, October 19, 1980

Description: Interview with George Fukui, a biologist from San Francisco, California. Fukui discusses his experiences as a Japanse-American during World War Two, including his family's background and their business, its closure, their forced relocation to Tanforan internment camp, the quality of life there, relocation to Topaz War Relocation Center in Utah, ranchwork there, securing a job outside the camp, continuing his higher education, and his career after the war.
Date: October 19, 1980
Creator: Mayfield, Cecile Benson & Fukui, George
Partner: UNT Oral History Program

Oral History Interview with Gloria Villanueva-Anderson, April 19, 2004

Description: Interview with community activist Gloria Villanueva-Anderson. The interview includes Villanueva-Anderson's personal experiences about being an activist in the Mexican-American community of Denton, Texas, education in Denton schools, discrimination at the train station in Denison, Texas, being accepted to the work-scholarship program of the FBI in 1952, opening her telephone answering exchange business, turning toward Republican politics, and her activities with George H.W. Bush's Texas Statewid… more
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Date: April 19, 2004
Creator: Ray, Dulce Ivette & Villanueva-Anderson, Gloria
Partner: UNT Oral History Program

Oral History Interview with Harold Corey, November 19, 2003

Description: Interview with businessman Harold Corey. The interview includes Corey's personal experiences about the Texas International Pop Festival. Corey talks about his parents' reaction to the social, political, and cultural changes of the Sixties, his early interest in popular music, protests against the Vietnam War, conflicts with the redneck culture, the influence of the Beatles on the music of the Sixties, the influence of the "British Invasion," meeting the Grand Funk Railroad at the festival, Hog … more
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Date: November 19, 2003
Creator: Tittle, Dennis & Corey, Harold
Partner: UNT Oral History Program
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Oral History Interview with Jack Kelley, April 19, 1978

Description: Interview with Navy veteran Jack Kelley. The interview includes Kelley's personal experiences while aboard the battleship USS Tennessee during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
Date: April 19, 1978
Creator: Marcello, Ronald E. & Kelley, Jack
Partner: UNT Oral History Program
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Oral History Interview with Jack Moss, July 19, 1970

Description: Interview with Jack Moss, a Texas National Guard WWII veteran from Amarillo, Texas, who served and was captured with the 2nd Battalion, 131st Field Artillery (the "Lost Battalion.") Moss discusses joining the the Guard and deployment to the Pacific, the fall and capture of Java, his experiences in internment at Bicycle Camp in Batavia, internment at Changi Camp in Singapore, partaking in forced labor on the Burma-Thailand "Death" Railway, and liberation.
Date: July 19, 1970
Creator: Marcello, Ronald E. & Moss, Jack
Partner: UNT Oral History Program

Oral History Interview with James Dietz, September 19, 1995

Description: Interview with Dr. James Dietz, former medical director of the Kaiser Permanente-Prudential Insurance joint venture from Cleveland, Ohio. Dietz discusses his educational background, joining Kaiser Permanente and being part of a pre-paid group practice, becoming medical director of the Permanente-Prudential partnership and moving to Texas, recruiting practitioners, boards, business, reception of the company in Texas, costs and competition, and the end of the joint venture.
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Date: September 19, 1995
Creator: Pinkney, Kathryn & Dietz, James
Partner: UNT Oral History Program

Oral History Interview with James I. Gipson, February 19, 1991

Description: Interview with James Gipson about his experiences while employed by the Civilian Conservation Corps during the Great Depression. He discusses his childhood in West Texas; joining the CCC; assignment to Company 3892 camp at the Colorado National Monument (NP-8-C) near Grand Junction, Colorado; transfer to a side camp in Glenwood Springs, Colorado; description of camps; life in camps.
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Date: February 19, 1991
Creator: Houser, Cindy & Gipson, James I.
Partner: UNT Oral History Program
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Oral History Interview with James R. Kanaman, September 19, 1977

Description: Interview with James Kanaman, U.S. Navy veteran, concerning his experiences aboard the destroyer-minelayer USS Tracy during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
Date: September 19, 1977
Creator: Marcello, Ronald E. & Kanaman, James R.
Partner: UNT Oral History Program
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