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[News Script: Protest remains peaceful] (open access)

[News Script: Protest remains peaceful]

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story.
Date: May 9, 1970, 10:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Script
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Mayor Justin] (open access)

[News Script: Mayor Justin]

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the return of Fort Worth Mayor Justin, who traveled with 22 other US mayors to West Berlin, and spent time in East Berlin.
Date: October 5, 1961
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Script
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Clip: E. German Doctor] captions transcript

[News Clip: E. German Doctor]

Video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story.
Date: October 2, 1990, 6:00 p.m.
Creator: KXAS-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Video
System: The UNT Digital Library

Storming the City: U.S. Military Performance in Urban Warfare from World War II to Vietnam

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Book describing military philosophy before and after WWII, with full chapters analyzing how the U.S. Army and Marine Corps engaged in urban warfare during four specific battles: Aachen (October 1944), Manila (February 1945), Seoul (September 1959), and Hue (February 1968). Index starts on page 363.
Date: October 2015
Creator: Wahlman, Alec
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Clip: Berlin Wall] captions transcript

[News Clip: Berlin Wall]

Video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story.
Date: November 9, 1990, 5:00 p.m.
Creator: KXAS-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Video
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Clip: Wall - Dallas] captions transcript

[News Clip: Wall - Dallas]

B-roll video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story.
Date: November 9, 1990, 10:00 p.m.
Creator: KXAS-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Video
System: The UNT Digital Library

Oral History Interview with Dolphus Edward Rowan, July 17, 2007

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Interview with Ed Rowan, a Army Air Corps WWII veteran from Gadsden, Alabama. Rowan discusses his family background, education, work, purchasing an airplane, flying over the the wreck of the Hindenburg, joining the National Guard and flying coastal patrols, becoming a bomber pilot, his B-17 crew, the various missions they flew in the European Theater, fighters, flak, equipment, tactics, leaving the service, and working as an airline pilot. In appendix is a photo of Rowan's civilian plane, his Distinguished Flying Cross citation, his appointment to the Reserves, a list of missions, flight logs, and a fact sheet about the 381st Bomb Group,
Date: July 17, 2007
Creator: Hegi, Benjamin & Rowan Jr., Dolphus Edward
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library

Oral History Interview with William H. Haugh, January 12, 1999

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Interview with William H. Haugh, a Army WWII veteran from Wrightsville, Pennsylvania. Haugh discusses growing up in Wrightsville, getting his own farm, the wartime economy, being drafted into the Army, becoming a machine gunner in the 35th Infantry Division, arrival in Metz and advancing to the Battle of the Bulge, artillery, experiences in combat, the Rhineland Campaign, the Ruhr Valley, being wounded, the German surrender and the Army of Occupation, reflections on combat, and returning to civilian life.
Date: January 12, 1999
Creator: Marcello, Ronald E. & Haugh, William H.
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library

Oral History Interview with Lisa Jane Lachance-Skier, March 14, 2013

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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 and her post-Air Force career, her involvement in the Grace After Fire program for assisting female veterans, problems facing female veterans and lack of support, the 2014 lifting of the combat ban on women in the US armed forces, the WASPs, and advice for servicewomen. In appendix is a summary of Lachance-Skier's USAF career, three photos of her Meritorious Service Medal certificates, and a Grace After Fire booklet.
Date: March 14, 2013
Creator: Hedrick, Amy & Lachance-Skier, Lisa Jane
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library

Oral History Interview with Gail Halvorsen, March 21, 2016

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Interview with Col. Gail Halvorsen, a Air Force veteran from Salt Lake City, Utah, who took part in the Berlin Airlift. Halvorsen discusses his family background, growing up, learning to fly, joining the Air Corps and flying various missions around the Atlantic during WWII, experiences in the Berlin Airlift, and relationships with Germans he affected. In appendix are various photos of and by Halvorsen from throughout his career, and letters he received from German children.
Date: March 21, 2016
Creator: Moody, Kimberly & Halvorsen, Gail Seymour
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library

Oral History Interview with William P. Schiff, January 12, 1990

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Interview with William Schiff, a Holocaust survivor from Kraków, Poland. Schiff discusses his family, antisemitism before the war, the invasion of Poland, being put into forced labor by the Germans and Poles, the ghetto and survival there, getting married, experiences in internment at Kraków-Płaszów, Auschwitz, Gross-Rosen, and Buchenwald concentration camps, liberation, returning to Kraków and finding his wife, and life afterwards.
Date: January 12, 1990
Creator: Rosen, Keith & Schiff, William P.
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library

Oral History Interview with Inga Pennock, January 27, 1990

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Interview with Inga Pennock, a Holocaust survivor from Berlin. Pennock discusses her family background, experiencing antisemitism and the start of Nazi rule, trying to leave Germany and hiding, increasing violence, Kristallnacht, losing family, fleeing to Shanghai, Japanese occupation and the ghetto, working as a nurse for the Japanese, living conditions, liberation, and life afterwards.
Date: January 27, 1990
Creator: Rosen, Keith G. & Pennock, Inga
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library

Oral History Interview with Harold Salfen, February 14, 2000

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Interview with Harold Salfen, a Army Air Force WWII veteran from O'Fallon, Missouri. Salfen discusses his hometown and family background, his childhood and education, working in St. Louis, attending the University of Missouri, joining the Army Air Force and training, operating a ground radar in the European Theater, liberating Buchenwald Concentration Camp, the end of the war, and returning home. In appendix is a biography/resumé of Salfen's.
Date: February 14, 2000
Creator: Alexander, William J. & Salfen, Harold
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library
[Letter from June Yates to Cal Yates] (open access)

[Letter from June Yates to Cal Yates]

Letter from June Yates to Cal describing his travels across Germany after the war was over. June notes the destruction that the bombs inflicted on some of the large cities and testifies for the accuracy of the horror stories told from the concentration camps; they are still very busy as they are the only hospital for miles.
Date: 1945-05-21~
Creator: Yates, June
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Interview with Dr. Odo Turowski, May 28, 1991 captions transcript

Interview with Dr. Odo Turowski, May 28, 1991

Interview with Dr. Odo Turowski, consultant for businesses in Eastern Europe. In the interview, Dr. Turowski discusses his life growing up in east Germany, escaping to west Germany, and the reunification of his country after the fall of the Berlin Wall.
Date: May 28, 1991
Creator: Turowski, Odo & McCaleb, Gary
Object Type: Video
System: The Portal to Texas History
Interview with Gottfried Reichel, 1985 captions transcript

Interview with Gottfried Reichel, 1985

Interview with Gottfried Reichel, a radio evangelist from Munich, Germany. In the interview, Reichel discusses growing up in Germany, including being a part of the Hitler Youth as a boy, and Germany's process of recovering after World War II.
Date: 1985
Creator: Reichel, Gottfried & McCaleb, Gary
Object Type: Video
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from June Yates to his Mother] (open access)

[Letter from June Yates to his Mother]

Letter from June Yates to his mother describing his actions and activities in Germany; he says, though, that he will not be home early as he had originally planned. He also goes into detail about the weather in Germany and talks of the letters he has received from other individuals.
Date: 1945-06-22~
Creator: Yates, June
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Robert Lee Mosty, March 9, 1998 (open access)

Oral History Interview with Robert Lee Mosty, March 9, 1998

Interview with Robert Lee Mosty, World War II veteran and owner/operator of a plant nursery in Center Point, Texas. Mr. Mosty tells stories from his service in WWII, including how his unit was one of the first to meet liberated prisoners of war, as well as how he was wounded and taken prisoner. He also discusses studying at A&M, his work for the National Park Service, and running a plant nursery in the 1920s.
Date: March 9, 1998
Creator: Witt, Gerald & Mosty, Robert Lee
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Transcript of Oral History Interview with Homer James "Jim" Avery, August 14, 2008 (open access)

Transcript of Oral History Interview with Homer James "Jim" Avery, August 14, 2008

Interview with Homer James "Jim" Avery, founder of James Avery Craftsman from Kerrville, Texas. Mr. Avery discusses his childhood, education, service in World War II, and starting and developing his jewelry business. The interview includes photographs of Mr. Avery, on pages 35-41.
Date: August 14, 2008
Creator: Collins, Francelle Robison; Webb, Jeanie Archer; Leonard, Julie Mosty & Avery, Homer James
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Anna Elisabeth Sullivan Strohacker, August 31, 2001 (open access)

Oral History Interview with Anna Elisabeth Sullivan Strohacker, August 31, 2001

Interview with Anna Elisabeth "Betty" Sullivan Strohacker, a former Rations Board worker during WWII, from Kerrville, Texas. Betty talks about her family's migration to the area, her work on the Rations board, life on a ranch, and her activity in the Kerr County Historical Commission and the Republican Party.
Date: August 31, 2001
Creator: Bethel, Ann; Snodgrass, Clarabelle & Strohacker, Anna Elisabeth Sullivan
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Jack and Frances Real Stevens, January 31, 2001 (open access)

Oral History Interview with Jack and Frances Real Stevens, January 31, 2001

Interview with Jack and Frances Real Stevens, a ranching and former Navy couple from Kerrville, Texas. The couple describes their individual childhoods, growing up in town and on a ranch, as well as their travels around the world. Mr. and Mrs. Stevens also discuss their involvement with the Kerrville community. The interview includes a history of the Kerrville German Dance Club, on pages 2-4.
Date: January 31, 2001
Creator: Bethel, Ann; Snodgrass, Clarabelle; Stevens, Jack & Stevens, Frances Real
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from Daniel Webster Kempner to Isaac Herbert Kempner, September, 1898] (open access)

[Letter from Daniel Webster Kempner to Isaac Herbert Kempner, September, 1898]

Letter from Daniel Webster Kempner to Isaac Herbert Kempner discussing his stay in Berlin.
Date: September 1898
Creator: Kempner, Daniel W. (Daniel Webster), 1877-1956
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Program: Ludwig Börne Statue Dedication Ceremony, June 11, 1995] (open access)

[Program: Ludwig Börne Statue Dedication Ceremony, June 11, 1995]

Program for a dedication ceremony held by the Boerne Area Historical Preservation Society, on June 11, 1995, at 2 p.m., at the Boerne Public Library. The ceremony is for the dedication of a bronze Ludwig Börne statue, sculpted by Jonas Perkins, to the town of Boerne, Texas. the program includes an order of events, a brief history and background of Ludwig Börne, and a short bio about the statue's sculptor.
Date: 1995-06~
Creator: Boerne Area Historical Preservation Society
Object Type: Pamphlet
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Release of Vendor's Lien, Alfred Fasshauer et al. to Henry Sayles, Jr.] (open access)

[Release of Vendor's Lien, Alfred Fasshauer et al. to Henry Sayles, Jr.]

Document which releases Henry Sayles' from the vendor's lien held by Alfred and Mary Fasshauer. The lien related to Lot 6 of the Alfred and May Fasshauer Subdivision of Survey 65, Blind Asylum land in Taylor County, Texas.
Date: February 27, 1929
Creator: Fasshauer, Alfred
Object Type: Legal Document
System: The Portal to Texas History