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Oral History Interview with Janet St. James, 2018

Description: Interview with Janet St. James describing her motivation to become a journalist and thoughts about journalism as a field, with highlights from her career, particularly her work in Dallas reporting on health and crime stories and winning an Excellence of Journalism award from the Press Club of Dallas. She also talks about her background and education, as well as her personal life.
Date: October 26, 2018
Creator: Owens, Brittany; Reyes, Blanca; Maxwell, Bailey & St. James, Janet
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Partner: UNT Frank W. and Sue Mayborn School of Journalism

Oral History Interview with Arthur B. Clark, September 29, 2000

Description: Interview with Arhtur B. Clark, a Texas National Guard WWII veteran and POW from Abilene, Texas, who was captured with the 2nd Battalion, 131st Field Artillery. Clark discusses joining the National Guard, training and maneuvers, deployment to the Pacific, the fall of Java and surrender to the Japanese, experiences in internment at Tanjong Priok in Batavia, internment at Changi Camp in Singapore, labor on the Burma "Death" Railway, and liberation. The interview includes an appendix with a refere… more
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Date: September 29, 2000
Creator: Marcello, Ronald E. & Clark, Arthur B.
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Partner: UNT Oral History Program
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Oral History Interview with Frank Fujita, November 9, 1970

Description: Interview with Frank Fujita, a Texas National Guard WWII veteran and POW from Abilene, Texas. Fujita recounts his experiences as a captured member of 2nd Battalion, 131st Field Artillery (the "the Lost Battalion"), including: joining the Guard and deploying to East Asia; diversion to Brisbane and assignment to Malang, Java; repelling a Japanese infantry assault; attempted evasion of Japanese forces before being captured; and internment and labor at Surabaja, Bicycle Camp in Batavia, Changi Camp… more
Date: November 9, 1970
Creator: Marcello, Ronald & Fujita Jr., Frank
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Partner: UNT Oral History Program
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Oral History Interview with Cecil Minshew, February 18, 1983

Description: Interview with Cecil T. Minshew regarding his experiences in the military and as a prisoner of war of the Japanese during World War II. He was part of the Texas National Guard, 36th Division, 131st Field Artillery, 2nd Battalion, also known as the "Lost Battalion." He was captured on the island of Java in March of 1942 and spent the duration of the war thereafter as a prison of war in camps in South East Asia and in Japan.
Date: February 18, 1983
Creator: Marcello, Ronald E. & Minshew, Cecil T.
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Partner: University of North Texas
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Oral History Interviews with Pete Evans, 1984

Description: Interview with Pete Evans, a Texas National Guard veteran and POW from Hamby, Texas. Evans discusses his time as a member of 2nd Battalion, 131st Field Artillery (the "Lost Battalion") which was captured by the Japanese in March, 1942, including: his upbringing; entering the Guard and training; mobilization, the Louisiana Maneuvers, and deployment to East Asia; diversion from the Philippines to Brisbane and then Java, after December 7th, 1941; assignment to Sangosari near Malang; the Japanese i… more
Date: {1984-02-15,1984-02-29,1984-03-07}
Creator: Marcello, Ronald E. & Evans, Pete
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Partner: UNT Oral History Program
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Personal Diary of Frank Fujita, Jr.

Description: A copy of Frank Fujita Jr.'s war diary, obtained by Dr. Ron Marcello to accompany Fujita's oral history interview. Fujita was an Texas National Guard WWII veteran and POW from the 2nd Battalion, 131st Field Artillery Regiment captured on Java in March 1942. Included is Fujita's original bound diary, and a rewritten version he made in a Japanese logbook in internment and continued. They contain daily activities, doodles, lists of dozens of servicemen and captives encountered, and the key to an e… more
Date: December 19, 1970
Creator: Marcello, Ronald E. & Fujita Jr., Frank
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Partner: UNT Oral History Program

Oral History Interview with G. Marguerite Anderson, February 16, 1992

Description: Interview with G. Marguerite Anderson, a librarian, concerning her experiences as a student in the Library School at the Texas State College for Women in Denton, Texas and as a librarian. Anderson discusses her early exposure to books and libraries; her enrollment at the Texas State College for Women, 1940; comments about her college teachers and library science courses; her employment as a student at the college library; her college social life; her employment as librarian at Abilene Christian… more
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Date: February 16, 1992
Creator: Dickey, Richard & Anderson, G. Marguerite
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Partner: UNT Oral History Program
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Oral History Interview with Grant Jones, August 21, 1979

Description: Interview with Grant Jones, an insurance executive and a Democratic member of the Texas Senate from Abilene, concerning his experiences and personal views as a member of the Sixty-sixth Legislature. Jones discusses his appointment as chairman of the Finance Committee, the Legislative Budget Board and the budget-making process, Comptroller Bob Bullock, Governor William Clements, the appropriations bill, tax relief legislation, public school financing, the Peveto bill, "Killer Bees," and consumer… more
Date: August 21, 1979
Creator: Marcello, Ronald E. & Jones, Grant
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Partner: UNT Oral History Program

Oral History Interview with Jay Titus, November 9, 1996

Description: Interview with Jay Titus, an Army Air Forces veteran (457th Squadron, 330th Bomb Group, 20th Air Force), concerning his experiences as a B-29 bombardier in the Pacific Theater during World War II. Bombing missions from Guam to Japan in 1945; Japanese fighter and flak opposition; fire bombing raids. Appendix includes a photocopy of the "350th Bomb Group Digest: a summary of combat activities from April 12 to Sept. 2 1945" [21 leaves]
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Date: November 9, 1996
Creator: Byrd, Richard W. & Titus, Jay
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Partner: UNT Oral History Program
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