Oral History Interview with Marla Bullard, December 14, 2003

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Interview with salesperson Marla Bullard. The interview includes Bullard's personal experiences about the Texas International Pop Festival. Bullard talks about her Mexican-American family values, her use of drugs and alcohol in high school, her attitudes toward the Vietnam War, hippie activities at Allen's Landing in Houston, Texas, conflicts between rednecks and hippies, her attraction to the musical groups of the Sixties, the importance of lyrics in Sixties music, her decision to attend the festival, drug use at the festival, Janis Joplin's performance, and the influence of the festival on her life.
Date: December 14, 2003
Creator: Tittle, Dennis & Bullard, Marla
System: The UNT Digital Library

Oral History Interview with Randell Fields, December 4, 2003

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Interview with Randell Fields. The interview includes Fields' personal experiences about attending the Texas International Pop Festival in Lewisville, Texas, early youth in rural Texas, and transferring high schools. Fields also talks about attendance at the "Big D Jamboree," the effects of his parent's divorce and influence of his young stepmother's interest in current music, student challenges to authority at North Texas Mesquite High School, rock 'n roll music of the Sixties, the influence of the radio station KZEW, attending the festival accompanied by his brother, sister, and father, observing the festival from outside the grounds, and the significance of the festival.
Date: December 4, 2003
Creator: Tittle, Dennis & Fields, Randell
System: The UNT Digital Library

Oral History Interview with Debbie Denmon, December 4, 2006

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Interview with Debbie Denmon, local news media personality and third-generation descendant of residents of Quakertown, as part of the Quakertown Oral History Project. The interview includes Denmon's personal experiences about childhood and education in Denton, having a career in broadcast journalism, and reporting on local efforts to capture Quakertown history. Denmon also speaks about memories of her great-grandmother Othella Hill, great-grandfather "Dollar Bill" Hill, and grandmother Norvell Williams Reed.
Date: December 4, 2006
Creator: Yancey, Sherelyn & Denmon, Debbie
System: The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Wilfred Bain, December 12, 1978 (open access)

Oral History Interview with Wilfred Bain, December 12, 1978

Interview with Wilfred Bain, dean of the North Texas State University School of Music from 1938-1947, concerning his experiences in the establishment of the NTSU School of Music as one of national prominence. Bain discusses his education and musical background, his appointment as chairman of the Department of Music, the establishment of the NTSU School of Music and his appointment as dean, the establishment of the jazz program, and his appointment as dean of the School of Music at Indiana University. He also comments on President W. Joseph McConnell, Silvio Scionti, Floyd Graham, Mary McCormic, Helen Hewitt, Walter Robert, Ralph Daniel, and the "Aces of Collegeland."
Date: December 12, 1978
Creator: Myers, Marceau & Bain, Wilfred C. (Wilfred Conwell), 1908-1997
System: The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Lillie Abbey, December 11, 1974 (open access)

Oral History Interview with Lillie Abbey, December 11, 1974

Interview with Lillie Abbey, long-time resident of Denton, Texas. The interview includes Abbey's personal experiences of the Oklahoma land rush, farm life, and life in Denton during the 1920s and 1930s.
Date: December 11, 1974
Creator: Marcello, Ronald E. & Abbey, Lillie
System: The UNT Digital Library

Oral History Interview with Foy Taylor, November 18, 2013

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Interview with Foy Taylor, a longtime resident of Denton, Texas, and donor of a antique log cabin to the Denton County Historical Commission. Taylor discusses his family background, education and career, his service in the Navy and witnessing atomic bomb tests, his family's farm in Denton, growing up in the area, prohibition and the Depression, and changes in the town over time.
Date: December 3, 2014
Creator: Carr, Barry & Taylor, Foy
System: The UNT Digital Library

Oral History Interview with Frtiz E. Schwalm

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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 Germany. In appendix are two pictures of Marburg discussed in the interview.
Date: December 4, 2012
Creator: Cox, Robert & Schwalm, Fritz E.
System: The UNT Digital Library

Oral History Interview with James Robert "Bob" Richardson, December 5, 2019

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Interview with James Robert "Bob" Richardson, North Texas State College alumnus, football player, and member of the Geezles Fraternity. Richardson discusses his childhood and education in Dallas and Garland, TX; experiences as a high school football player and recruitment to North Texas in 1956; experiences with the North Texas freshman and varsity football teams; decision to join Geezles Fraternity, experiences with and lessons learned from fraternity members; experiences in North Texas business school; career as an insurance company executive, in the Marine Corps, and volunteer work as a Stephen Minister.
Date: December 5, 2019
Creator: Pettit, John & Richardson, James Robert
System: The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Frank H. King, December 12, 1978 (open access)

Oral History Interview with Frank H. King, December 12, 1978

Interview with Frank H. King, a United States Marine Corps veteran from Shamrock, Texas. King discusses his experiences as a prisoner-of-war of the Japanese during World War II after his cruiser, the USS Houston, was sunk off the coast of Java in 1942.
Date: December 12, 1978
Creator: Marcello, Ronald E. & King, Frank H.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Catherine Bell, December 12, 1987 (open access)

Oral History Interview with Catherine Bell, December 12, 1987

Interview with Catherine Bell, a public employee and community activist, about her experiences concerning the activities of the Denton Christian Women's Interracial Fellowship during the 1960s and 1970s. Bell discusses the early organization and social activities, her experiences in a segregated environment, the street paving of the African American section of Denton, urban renewal, desegregation of public places in Denton, her political activities, desegregation of schools, and the jobs program.
Date: December 12, 1987
Creator: Byrd, R. W. (Richard W.) & Bell, Catherine, approximately 1920-
System: The UNT Digital Library