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Oral History Interview with Sidney C. Matlock, September 9, 1981

Description: Interview with Sidney Matlock, an Army veteran (2nd Battalion, 131st Field Artillery, Texas National Guard) and a member of the "Lost Battalion," concerning his experiences as a prisoner-of-war of the Japanese during World War II. Matlock discusses the fall of Java and his capture, Bicycle Camp in Batavia (1942), Changi Prison Camp in Singapore (1942), building the Burma-Thailand Death Railway (1942-1944), Kanchanaburi, Thailand (1944), railroad maintenance work in Burma (1944), Phet Buri, Thai… more
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Date: September 9, 1981
Creator: Marcello, Ronald E. & Matlock, Sidney C., 1917-
Partner: UNT Oral History Program

Oral History Interview with Clark L. Taylor, September 14, 1979

Description: Interview with Captain Clark Taylor, an Army veteran (2nd Battalion, 131st Field Artillery, Texas National Guard) and a member of the "Lost Battalion," concerning his experiences as a prisoner-of-war of the Japanese during World War II. Taylor discusses the fall of Java and his capture, Bicycle Camp in Batavia (1942), Changi Prison Camp in Singapore (1942), building the Burma-Thailand Death Railway (1942-1944), Kanchanaburi and Tamarkan, Thailand (1944), American air raids, Bangkok, Thailand (1… more
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Date: September 14, 1979
Creator: Marcello, Ronald E. & Taylor, Clark L., 1915-
Partner: UNT Oral History Program

Oral History Interview with Marvin E. Tilghman, September 6, 1978

Description: Interview with Marvin Tilghman, an Army veteran (2nd Battalion, 131st Field Artillery, Texas National Guard) and a member of the "Lost Battalion," concerning his experiences as a prisoner-of-war of the Japanese during World War II. Tilghman discusses the fall of Java and his capture, Bicycle Camp in Batavia (1942), Changi Prison Camp in Singapore (1942), building the Burma-Thailand Death Railway (1942-1944), Kanchanaburi, Thailand (1944), Saigon and Da Lat, French Indo-China (1944-1945), Americ… more
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Date: September 6, 1978
Creator: Marcello, Ronald E. & Tilghman, Marvin E., 1917-
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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[News Script: News]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story of soldiers who battled Cambodian rebels on two sides of Kampong Cham as the insurgents launched 200 mortar shells into the city. Police in Birmingham, England who said that another bomb was discovered by two boys.
Date: September 4, 1973, 6:30 a.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Hobby]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story of Lieutenant Governor who invoked broad state powers to deal with problems caused by tropical storm Delia.
Date: September 4, 1973, 6:30 a.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Space Champ]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story of mission commander of Skylab became the world champion of space flight.
Date: September 5, 1973, 12:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Hunt]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story of the leader of the Japanese expedition that plans to hunt the Loch Ness Monster who has claimed Scottish feelings by promising not to shoot the legendary creature.
Date: 1973-09-06T24:00:00
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Douglas]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story of supreme court justice who is arriving at Seattle, Washington after a 3-week vacation in Japan and was rushed from then airport.
Date: September 6, 1973, 10:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Hughes Retiring]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story of democratic senator Harold Hughes of Iowa who is quitting politics.
Date: September 6, 1973, 12:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Cambodia]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story of communist-led insurgents who renewed their attacks on Kompong Cham.
Date: September 9, 1973, 10:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Plane Found]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story of the wreckage of a missing jet cargo plane which was found by search parties on a mountain inside near Cold Bay, Alaska.
Date: September 9, 1973, 10:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Aircraft Down]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story of a World Airways DC-8 who has leased to the Air Force is missing and presumed down near Cold Bay, Alaska.
Date: September 8, 1973, 10:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Hobby]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story of Lt. governor Bill Hobby who offered to have state employees help administer a federal allocation program for propane gas.
Date: September 7, 1973, 6:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: United Fund]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story of Tarrant County's 1973 Crusade of Hope fund drive got off to a swinging start with a luncheon in the grand ballroom of the Fort Worth Sheraton Hotel.
Date: September 7, 1973, 6:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Briscoe]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story of Texas governor Dolph Briscoe who says the governors of the Mexican States of Nuevo Leon, Jalisco and Yucatan will be his guest in Austin.
Date: September 11, 1973, 8:25 a.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Jeffrey]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story of Air Force Major who spent 7 years as a prisoner of war in North Vietnam, where he and his fellow prisoners secretly taught each other languages to pass the time and to keep their minds active.
Date: September 10, 1973, 6:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Cambodia]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story of insurgents who held on to the southern part of the beleaguered city of Kampong Cham in Cambodia.
Date: September 10, 1973, 12:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Pompidou /Chairman MAO]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story of French president Pompidou who met with Chinese Communist Party chairman Mao Tse Tung for sometime.
Date: September 12, 1973, 12:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Castro in Hanoi]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story of official Vietnam News Agency reports Cuba's Fidel Castro which arrived in Hanoi from the Conference of Unaligned nations in Algiers.
Date: September 12, 1973, 12:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Cambodia]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story of Cambodian government troops at the besieged city of Kampong Cham are reported advancing from the north and east in an attempt to trap insurgent forces along the southwest edge of the city.
Date: September 13, 1973, 12:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Cambodia]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about the Cambodian military command who says its forces have recaptured most of Kompos Cham, the provincial capital besieged by reels.
Date: September 13, 1973, 6:30 a.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Laos peace agreement]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about the United states which has welcomed the political peace agreement signed in Laos between the Vientiane government and the communists Pathet Tao.
Date: September 14, 1973, 12:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

Oral History Interview with John Lloyd Ruddick, September 9, 1994

Description: Transcript of an interview with John Ruddick, a Navy veteran, concerning his experiences while aboard the destroyer USS Melvin during World War II in the Pacific Theater. Ruddick discusses the Marianas invasion, the Carolines invasion, the Battle of Leyte Gulf, the Battle of Surigao Strait, Iwo Jima, Okinawa, Kurile operations, and the occupation of Japan.
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Date: September 9, 1994
Creator: Marcello, Ronald E. & Ruddick, John Lloyd, 1923-
Partner: UNT Oral History Program
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