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Interview with Richard A. Crane about his experiences while employed by the Civilian Conservation Corps during the Great Depression. He discusses his childhood in Mesquite, Texas; joining the CCC; assignment to Company 819 at Camp NP-2-A in Grand, Canyon, Arizona; description of camp; life in camp.
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Interview with William Havel, an army veteran from Staten Island, New York. This interview recounts his experiences as an adopted child in a farm family and then as a corpsman at Tripler General Hospital during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
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Interview with Darrell Harrington, an anesthetist and Army veteran of the Vietnam War. In the interview, Harrington describes his experiences while serving as an Army nurse, and includes details on his assignments to Chu Lai, Da Nang, and the 91st Evacuation Hospital in An Khe. Harrington also discusses the treatment of wounded troops and enemy soldiers, relationships between doctors and nurses, general morale problems, and recreational activities. He recalls his return to the States on thirty-…
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Interview with Jose Gonzalez, an anesthetist and Army veteran of the Vietnam War. In the interview, Gonzalez describes his experiences while serving as an Army nurse in Vietnam. Gonzalez discusses what life was like during his assignment to the 24th Evacuation Hospital, and includes details concerning relationships between doctors and nurses, morale, American relations with Vietnamese civilians, recreational activities, entertainment, and his Bronze Star award. He also recalls the adjustments t…
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Interview with William Dunphy, an anesthetist and Army veteran from the Vietnam War. In the interview, Dunphy describes some of his experiences while serving as an Army nurse during the Vietnam War. Dunphy discusses what it was like working at the Army hospital in Saigon, Vietnam, and includes details that concern general living accommodations, hospital facilities, relationships between doctors and nurses, work schedules, alcohol abuse by military personnel, drug problems, and American relation…
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Interview with Carl Horton, an operating room nurse and Vietnam Army veteran. In the interview, Horton describes his experiences while serving as an Army nurse during the Vietnam War. He goes in depth about his assignments, which include Yokohama, Japan and Dong Tam and Can Tho with the 3rd Surgical Hospital. Horton also discusses living accommodations, hospital facilities, American relations with the South Vietnamese military personnel and civilians, "short time" and out-processing, leisure ti…
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Interview with Aletha Barsanti regarding her experiences as the wife of U. S. Army General Olinto Barsanti. They married in 1942. She remembers their courtship in San Antonio; their assignments in Europe, Japan, and Washington, D.C.; raising their children; his activities in the Korean War; his promotion to general; military protocol for the wives of general officers; and his one-year tour in the Vietnam War as the commander of the 101st Airborne Division. He was diagnosed with stomach cancer a…
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Interview with William E. Moore Jr., a Army WWII veteran from Temple, Texas, who was present at the attack on Pearl Harbor. Moore discusses his time in the Corps of Cadets at Texas A&M, assignment to 24th Division Artillery at Schofield Barracks, Hawaii, training and alerts, the attack at Wheeler Field and taking defensive positions around Oahu, and service afterwards.
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Interview with Pauline Dixon, a teacher and longtime resident of Hamilton Park from Pittsburg, Texas. Dixon discusses her education, her father's work as assistant sheriff in segregated Pittsburg, the Classroom Teachers of Dallas, moving to Hamilton Park, development of the area, the "buy out" of the neighborhood, the Civic League, desegregation and busing, and her political work.
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Interview with Charles M. Lagow, a Army WWII veteran from Dallas, Texas. Lagow discusses his family history, attending Texas A&M, joining the CCC, the lead up to war, activation and training with the 352nd Engineer Battalion, deployment to Khorramshahr, Iran, building roads, delivering supplies to the Soviets, crash landing in a B-17 in Palestine, returning to the States and transfer to the 1346th Eng. Bat., deployment to Okinawa, occupation duty and Japanese holdouts, thoughts on Hideki Tojo, …
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October 11, 2000
Creator:
Ripley, Christopher & Lagow, Charles Marshall
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Interview with Freddie and Ola Lee Allen, a married couple living in Hamilton Park, both from Marshall, Texas. The Allens discuss their family backgrounds and education, Mr. Allen's service in the Navy during WWII and work in the construction business, Mrs. Allen's work with Richardson ISD and Richland College, their children, moving to Hamilton Park, the neighborhood's development, organizational activities with the Civic League and others, the schools, desegregation, and the "buy out."
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1991-02/1991-03
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Wilson, William H.; Allen, Freddie & Allen, Ola Lee
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Interview with Marilyn Jean Johnson, an African-American resident of Fort Worth, Texas, from Champaign, Illinois, who moved to Texas during the civil rights era. Johnson, accompanied by her neighbor Exie Jean Alaman Morne'y, discusses the differences between life in Illinois and the segregated South, her first instances of discrimination, desegregation in Fort Worth, the Wright Amendment, Juneteenth, neighborhoods and housing, differences between Dallas and Fort Worth, persistent racism, and Ca…
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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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June 19, 2014
Creator:
Fichera, Aaron & Jones, John Dolford "Bobby"
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Interview with William Waybourn, an LGBT activist from Matador, Texas. Waybourn discusses his early life and education, his work in journalism, his partner, the Dallas Times Herald, his family, working for Market Center, the relationship between the gay community and Dallas community figureheads, the Dallas Gay Alliance, the Dallas "gayborhood," Texas Penal Code 21.06 (the "homosexual conduct" law), police harassment, the Fifth Circuit Court, the AIDS epidemic, fighting medical discrimination, …
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Interview with Sheila Allen, an attorney and longtime resident of Hamilton Park from Dallas, Texas. Allen discusses attending school in Hamilton Park, integration in Richardson ISD and relations between white and black students, discrimination, attending East Texas State and Sam Houston University, struggles finding work afterwards, law school, church life, reflections on the Hamilton Park community, resisting "Buy Out," the Civic League, and thoughts on the future.
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Interview with General John Roberts, a Air Force WWII veteran from Arkansas, who served for over twenty years with General Roger Ramey of Denton, Texas. Roberts discusses Ramey's background and his own, Army Air Corps pilot training, the start of the war and assignment under Ramey, changing commands and transition to the B-29, Curtis LeMay, the atomic bomb, postwar work, Ramey's health and death, his relationships with various figures, Douglas MacArthur and Harry Truman, the racial integration …
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April 27, 1999
Creator:
Lane, Peter B.; Garland, Terry & Roberts, John A.
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Interview with Exie Jean Alaman Morne'y, a teacher from Fort Worth, Texas, who lived during the end of the Jim Crow era. Morne'y discusses her family background, attending grade school in Fort Worth, experiences with segregation and discrimination in the 1950s and 60s, attending North Texas State College, working at Parkland Hospital, her marriages and children, moving to California and back to Texas, her career with Fort Worth ISD, church activities and faith, thoughts on child education, and …
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February 26, 2014
Creator:
Travis, Sarah & Alaman Morne'y, Exie Jean
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Interview with Lisa Jane Lachance-Skier, a Air Force veteran from Phoenix, Arizona. Lachance-Skier discusses growing up, participating in Junior ROTC, enlisting in the Air Force in 1976, experiences as a woman in a newly integrated Air Force, sexual harassment and assault in the military, service in England, attending ROTC and becoming an officer, her marriage, service in Germany, her work during the Gulf War, being forced out as part of a personnel drawdown, transitioning to the civilian world…
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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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Interview with Jack Evans and George Harris, LGBT activists and a couple of over fifty years from Denton, Texas. They discuss Evans' time in the Coast Guard, Harris' time in and expulsion from the CIA, realizing their sexuality, meeting one another, moving to Dallas, police harassment, their wedding in 2014, involvement with United Methodist Church, the North Texas GLBT Chamber of Commerce and involvement in the Dallas LGBT community, and the AIDS epidemic.
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Date:
January 20, 2016
Creator:
Wisely, Karen; Evans, Jack & Harris, George
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Interview with Barbara Darden, a nurse and resident of Hamilton Park from Dallas, Texas. Darden discusses her upbringing and education, nursing, her family, moving to Hamilton Park and the neighborhood's development, school involvement, desegregation and busing, and the Interorganizational Council and the Civic League.
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Interview with Richard Vincent, a member and former pastor of the Metropolitan Community Church from Kirksville, Missouri. Vincent discusses his education and religious background, the Circle of Friends in Dallas and discovering the Metropolitan Community Church, establishing MCC Dallas, ministering to prisoners, becoming the first pastor of MCC Dallas, cooperation with bars and other LGBT community establishments, the congregation, moving the church, his theology, succeeding pastors, and refle…
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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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Interview with Cleon Stewart, a Texas National Guard WWII veteran and POW from Tulia, Texas, who served and was captured with the 2nd Battalion, 131st Field Artillery (known as the "Lost Battalion"). Stewart discusses joining the National Guard, training and the Louisiana Maneuvers, deployment to the Pacific in November, 1941, diversion to Java after December 7th, Japanese air strikes and the invasion, the American surrender and initial internement by the Japanese, experiences in internment at …
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