Transcript of an interview with Dr. Milan Reban, Professor emeritus of the UNT Political Science department and political activist, conducted in Richardson, Texas on April 8, 2017. Reban discusses his family background and experiences as a native of Czechoslovakia and survivor of the Nazi and Soviet invasions of that country, defection from Czechoslovakia and travel to the U.S, his education at the University of Miami and Michigan State University, and academic career at UNT.

Interview with Jess Stanbrough, a Texas National Guard WWII veteran from Wichita Falls, Texas, who served and was captured with the 2nd Battalion, 131st Field Artillery (the "Lost Battalion.") Stanbrough discusses his time in the Guard before the war, deployment to the Pacific, the fall of Java and being captured, experiences in internment at Tanjong Priok and Bicycle Camp in Batavia, operating a clandestine radio, transfer to Japan, being an iron smelter at Kamaishi, Honshu, American air and naval bombardment, and liberation.

Interview with Father Francis Fernandex, a Roman Catholic priest and a Basque from Alsasua, Navarre, discussing the role of religion in Basque culture, his pursuit of the priesthood, the Spanish Civil War, and Basque customs.

Interview with John Kirk, a United States Navy veteran from Oklahoma, regarding his experiences and memories of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor of December 7, 1941 while aboard the destroyer USS Dewey.

Interview with Albert E. Kennedy, a United States Navy veteran from East Prairie, Missouri, regarding his experiences and memories as a prisoner-of-war of the Japanese after surviving the wreck of the USS Houston during World War II.

Interview with Reby Cary, a professor, Texas State legislator, and civil rights activist from Fort Worth, Texas. Cary discusses attending Prairie View A&M, WWII service in the Coast Guard, segregation, his authorship, teaching at Dunbar HS, being the first black member of a schoolboard and the first black professor at UT Arlington, his tenure as a Texas State Congressman, experiences of discrimination, his experiences in the Civil Rights Movement, and his thoughts on Martin Luther King Jr., Barack Obama, and other black leaders. In appendix are photographs of Cary's various awards and the program for a Baptist service celebrated in his honor.

Interview with former football coach and director of athletics at the North Texas State University Fred McCain, from Denton, Texas. In the interview, McCain describes his experiences from when he worked at the college during the desegregation of intercollegiate athletics.

Transcript of an interview with Lina Mae Maddox, telephone operator and EEOC member and activist, concerning her childhood as a white Mississippi sharecropper; experiences of discrimination against poor and women; move to Dallas for war work; experiences of segregation; sympathizing with African Americans' experiences with discrimination; public reaction to the Civil Rights Act; EEOC and union activism; civil rights improvements. Appendix includes excerpts from Maddox's autobiography and various photos.

Interview with former president of the North Texas State College and the North Texas State University, J. C. Matthews from Denton, Texas. In the interview, Matthews shares his thoughts and experiences concerning the desegregation of intercollegiate athletics at North Texas State College in 1956.

Interview with James Blocklinger, a Navy veteran, concerning his experiences aboard the heavy minelayer USS Oglala during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.

Interview with Albert Kennedy, a businessman, a Navy veteran and a survivor of the sinking of the USS Houston, concerning his experiences as a prisoner-of-war of the Japanese during World War II. Kennedy talks about the sinking of the Houston (1942), his capture and imprisonment at Serang, Java, Bicycle Camp in Batavia (1942), Changi Prison Camp in Singapore (1942), building the Burma-Thailand Death Railway (1942-1944), Kanchanaburi, Thailand (1944), Saigon, French Indo-China (1944-1945), and his liberation.

Interview with Thomas Stockett, a United States Navy veteran from California, regarding his experiences and memories of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor of December 7, 1941 while aboard the destroyer USS Dale.

Interview with Sergeant Major Strimple C. ("Jim") Coyle, a Marine Corps veteran, concerning his experiences Ewa Field with VMF-211 (Marine Fighter Squadron 211) during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.

Interview with Tony Coalson, a Army Vietnam veteran and Air America pilot from Oxford-Anniston, Alabama. Coalson discusses his early interest in aviation, education and ROTC at Auburn University, becoming an Army helicopter pilot, deployment to Vietnam, missions in II Corps, return to the US and becoming an Air America pilot, returning to Vietnam, the nature of Air America and their missions, and flying into Laos and Cambodia. In appendix are several photos of Coalson during his career, mentions of him in related literature, and a letter addressed to him by a fellow chopper pilot.

Interview with Val. F. Borum, a Navy veteran, concerning his experiences while aboard the submarine USS Blower in the Pacific Theater during World War II. Submarine School,. New London, Connecticut, 1944; assignment to the Blower, 1944; his responsibilities as plotting officer, various patrols in the Java Sea and off Indo-China.

Interview with Bette Graham, inventor of Liquid Paper and founder of the Liquid Paper Corporation, which has since been sold to the Gillette Company. The interview includes a speech given by Bette Graham before the New Enterprise Club on March 9th, 1977 as well as a previous Oral History interview conducted on May 10th, 1969 and an Oral History interview on August 3, 1977. Additionally, there is a speech that was given to the Rotary Club at the Baker Hotel. Finally, there is a clip from the Dallas Morning News from May 14th, 1980 regarding the death of Bette Graham.

Interview with Walter White concerning his experiences as a federal labor mediator and conciliator. White speaks of his his thirty-year career with the U.S. Conciliation Service and the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service, as well as his early boyhood employment with International Harvester Company. He discusses the Depression and New Deal, the Kansas Employment Service, his employment with U.S. Potash Company and experiences with Mine, Mill, and Smelter Workers Union, and his employment with the U.S. Conciliation Service in 1942. White also explains labor-management relations during World War II, his personal experiences in the Omaha and Des Moines offices, the Taft-Hartley Act, the formation of Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service, and the post-World War II labor unrest. In addition, White talks about his transfer to Texas, his personal philosophy concerning labor-management relations, personal experiences with and comments about James Hoffa, Sid Richardson, and John Connally, and Eugene Debs.