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Oral History Interview with Clyde C. Childress, February 8, 1972 (open access)

Oral History Interview with Clyde C. Childress, February 8, 1972

Interview with Clyde C. Childress, an Army WWII veteran who served with Filipino guerrillas. Childress discusses joining the army, deployment to the Philippines before the war, the Japanese invasion, forming guerrilla groups, operations and survival on Mindanao, and the Allied invasion and liberation. In appendix are a congressional recognition of Childress and others guerrillas' service in the war, an autobiographical account written by Childress, and a series of action briefs reporting the guerrillas' operations.
Date: February 8, 1971
Creator: Marcello, Ronald E.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Alonzo W. Jamison, July 30, 1965 (open access)

Oral History Interview with Alonzo W. Jamison, July 30, 1965

Interview with former Democratic member of the Texas House of Representatives Alonzo W. Jamison, Jr., a college professor and farmer-stockman from Denton, Texas. The interview includes Jamison's experiences and personal views as a member of the Texas House of Representatives, as well as House speakerships and lobbyist activities.
Date: February 8, 1966
Creator: Kamp, H. W. & Jamison, Alonzo W.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Jack Guin, February 8, 1989 (open access)

Oral History Interview with Jack Guin, February 8, 1989

Interview with Jack Guin, a United States Navy veteran from Guin, Alabama, regarding his experiences and memories of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor of December 7, 1941 while aboard the hydrographic vessel USS Sumner, originally called the Bushnell.
Date: February 8, 1989
Creator: Randall, George & Guin, Jack
System: The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Edna Gardner Whyte, February 8, 1979 (open access)

Oral History Interview with Edna Gardner Whyte, February 8, 1979

Interview with Edna Gardner Whyte, a competitive pilot and flight instructor from Garden City, Minnesota. Whyte discusses her family history, her childhood and education, moving to Oregon, her initial interests in flying, her training in nursing, taking up flying, winning her first race, teaching others to fly, becoming a flight instructor full-time, Prohibition bootlegging, races, a crash, Amelia Earhart, the growth of women in aviation, service as a Army Air Corps nurse during World War Two, being a flying salesman, flying helicopters, and building the Aero Valley Flying School.
Date: February 8, 1979
Creator: Jenkins, Floyd & White, Edna Gardner
System: The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with A. R. Schwartz, May 6, 1970 (open access)

Oral History Interview with A. R. Schwartz, May 6, 1970

Interview with former Democratic Texas Senator A. R. Schwartz, an attorney from Galveston, Texas. The interview includes Schwartz's experiences as a member of the Sixty-first Legislature, as well as his personal views on issues such as one-year versus two-year budgets, revenue bills, welfare spending, constitutional revisions, urban-rural conflicts, minimum wages for migrant workers, education legislation, unrest on college campuses, and personal legislation. The former Senator's comments about Governors John Connally and Preston Smith are also included in the interview.
Date: February 8, 1971
Creator: Marcello, Ronald E. & Schwartz, Aaron Robert, 1926-
System: The UNT Digital Library