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Oral History Interview with Frtiz E. Schwalm

Description: Interview with Dritz Schwalm, a professor at the University of North Texas from Arolsen, Hesse. Schwalm discusses his family background, the county of Waldeck, his education, moving to the United States and working in academia, his parents' laundry business, the University of Marburg, working at Texas Women's University and the University of North Texas, German culture in the United States, shopping, the Goethe Institute, American politics, thoughts on citizenship, and radical leftists in Germa… more
Date: December 4, 2012
Creator: Cox, Robert & Schwalm, Fritz E.
Partner: UNT Oral History Program

Oral History Interview with William D. Whitson, August 13, 2006

Description: Interview with William Whitman, a Army Air Force WWII veteran from Denton, Texas, who served with General Curtis LeMay. Whitman discusses flight training, becoming a heavy bomber pilot, service in the European theater, joining LeMay's staff, and stories about LeMay's work and personality.
Date: August 13, 2006
Creator: Hurley, Alfred & Whitson, William D.
Partner: UNT Oral History Program

Oral History Interview with Warren Whitson, Jr., November 22, 1995

Description: Warren Whitson, Jr., a businessman and an Army Air Corps veteran (493rd Bomb Group, 860th Bomb Squadron, 8th Air Force), concerning his experiences as a B-17 pilot in the European Theater during World War II. Whitson discusses his pre-flight and flight training in 1943, his assignment to the 493rd Bomb Group, 860th Bomb Squadron at Stone, England, the characteristics of the B-17G, his first mission in Berlin, problems with flak, tactics to counter German radar, his engine trouble and crash land… more
Date: November 22, 1995
Creator: Marcello, Ronald E. & Whitson, Warren, Jr.
Partner: UNT Oral History Program

Oral History Interview with Keith Shelton, April 27, 2017

Description: Transcript of an interview with Keith Shelton, journalist, concerning his childhood in Oklahoma; family history; journalism training and career; Cold War military service in Germany; work for Dallas Times Herald; coverage of John F. Kennedy's 1963 Texas visit and assassination; coverage of Jack Ruby's trial; UNT journalism department; teaching journalism. Appendix includes various photos of Shelton, a letter from President Lyndon B. Johnson, a copy of a press release from The White House, and c… more
Date: April 27, 2017
Creator: Moye, J. Todd & Shelton, Keith
Partner: UNT Oral History Program

Oral History Interview with Gudrun Raschen, November 1, 2009

Description: Transcript of an interview with Gudrun Raschen, a German-born immigrant to Denton, Texas, and adjunct professor of Music at Texas Woman's University. Raschen shares concerning her childhood, and education in Kiel and Hamburg, Germany; family history; parents' move to South Africa; own move to South Africa; discovery of the cello and decision to study it seriously; involvement in anti-apartheid movement; decision to move to the U.S. for graduate school; attraction of UNT Doctorate of Musical Art… more
Date: November 1, 2009
Creator: Schnur, Abra & Raschen, Gudrun
Partner: UNT Oral History Program
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