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Oral History Interview with Alan Lee Briscoe, November 22, 2006

Description: Interview with Alan Lee Briscoe, NASA engineer, as part of the Skylab Oral History Project. The interview includes Briscoe's personal experiences about education at Texas A&M University and South Texas School of Law, joining NASA, working in flight control operations and communications support on the Apollo program, and problem-solving on Skylab missions. Briscoe also speaks about the Skylab "wet workshop," the monotony inherit in Skylab work-shift schedules and efforts to break it, and Skylab'… more
Date: November 22, 2006
Creator: Johnson, Michael & Briscoe, Alan Lee

Oral History Interview with Harve D. King, May 22, 2001

Description: Interview with Harve D. King, a Army WWII veteran from Copeville, Texas, who served in the 350th Engineer Regiment. King discusses his upbringing on a cotton farm, school in Farmersville, discrimination as an African-American, attending Texas College, joining the Army, training, assignment at Camp Shelby, deployment to New Guinea, operations at Hollandia, building a hospital, recreation, visiting Australia, returning to the United States and discharge, and life after the war.
Date: May 22, 2001
Creator: Marcello, Ronald E. & King, Harve D.

Oral History Interview with Reverend Michael Piazza, March 22, 2007

Description: Transcript of an interview with Reverend Michael Piazza, pastor of the Dallas Cathedral of Hope. Reverend Piazza discusses conversion from Catholicism to the Methodist Church, decision to enter ministry, the process of coming out, volunteer work, and development of outreach and social justice ministries, and decision to leave and affiliate with United Church of Christ denomination.
Date: March 22, 2007
Creator: Mims, Michael & Piazza, Michael, 1954-

Oral History Interview with Gladys Barnes Lawhon, May 22, 2008

Description: Interview with long-time Denton resident Gladys Barns Lawhon for the Denton Historical Commission Museum. The interview includes Lawhon's family history, personal experiences about her childhood, life in Denton, impressions of neighbors, teaching music, and her travels for the National Guild of Piano Teachers.
Date: May 22, 2008
Creator: Nelson, Martha Len & Lawhon, Gladys Barnes
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