Recital performed at the UNT College of Music Voertman Hall.

The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with David Braden from Dallas, Texas. He discusses his time in the Airforce during WW2. Mr. Braden start with his time training to be a navigator before his first mission in Tokyo, Japan. David Braen describes dropping messages over Japanese cities urging Japanese people to plead for their leaders to surrender and to evacuate before the U.S. burns the cities to the ground. After the Japanese government surrendered and the war was over, Mr. Braden was flown home and kissed the ground as soon as he landed.

The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with Aaron Mendoza. Mendoza joined the Navy in 1943 and received basic training in San Diego. He attended torpedo school and was assigned to an aircraft torpedo lab at Kaneohe Naval Air Station. There he filled warheads with air so the torpedo could be retrieved after test fires. Torpedoes that passed quality control would then be filled with explosive warheads and loaded into underground silos. After 14 months, his unit was dispersed. Mendoza was in Great Lakes awaiting further orders when the war ended. He was discharged in December 1945 and worked as a civilian employee at Kelly Air Force Base, retiring with a GS-12 ranking. He then worked as a salesman for Control Data, selling supercomputers to the likes of NASA and Texaco. He emphasizes the importance of staying active in retirement, and at the age of 88 he ranked number one nationally in Wii bowling.

The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with Al Jowdy. Jowdy enlisted in the Navy in July 1942 at the age of 15, with his parents’ consent. His first assignment was pulling bodies out of sunken ships in Pearl Harbor. At Guadalcanal, his ship was torpedoed. Due to the presence of enemy subs, he could not be rescued initially and spent two weeks floating in a raft. Then he joined a rescue effort to aid the USS Wasp (CV-7), only to be torpedoed again, spending another four days in the water. Jowdy was then assigned to the USS Salt Lake City (CA-25), patrolling the Bering Sea and participating in the Battle of the Komandorski Islands as a second loader on a 40-millimeter. After witnessing the Marianas Turkey Shoot and also seeing MacArthur film his famous return, Jowdy participated in the bombardment of Iwo Jima, amidst kamikazes and suicide boats. After the war, he survived a typhoon and served occupation duty in Japan, later transporting troops as part of the demobilization effort before being discharged in January 1946.

Faculty and Guest Artist recital performed at the UNT College of Music Kenton Hall.

Audio interview from the Wes Phelps Podcast Interviews Collection recorded on September 22nd, 2022 in Houston, Texas. Phelps interviews Marco Roberts on his involvement with the Gay Student Services organization at Texas A&M University. Roberts speaks on the lawsuit Gay Student Services v. Texas A&M University, through which his group fought to be recognized as an official Texas A&M student organization. Roberts, as former president of the Gay Student Services, speaks on his experiences with political tensions in the group during the 1980s.

Audio interview from the Wes Phelps Podcast Interviews Collection recorded on September 23rd, 2022 in Denton, TX. Phelps interviews Todd Camp over his efforts to document gay history in Fort Worth. Camp speaks on his involvement with the QCinema Film Festival and covers the history of gay and lesbian bars in Dallas and Fort Worth, specifically covering the affects sodomy laws had on such establishments. Camp discusses police behavior which led to court cases like Cyr v. Walls, a civil suit made against the Fort Worth Police Department due to their harassment of members at the Texas Gay Rights Conference in 1974.

Audio interview from the Wes Phelps Podcast Interviews Collection recorded on September 30th, 2022 in Houston, Texas. Phelps interviews Linda Morales on her life as a dedicated activist and plaintiff in Morales v. Texas. She speaks on her experiences with racism and discrimination in the LGBT community in Houston, and her creation of the Latina lesbian AMIGA organization. Morales also speaks on discrimination faced by the LGBT community due to penal code 21.06, a discriminatory sodomy law which made "homosexual conduct" illegal in the state of Texas.

Audio interview from the Wes Phelps Podcast Interviews Collection recorded on September 15th, 2022 in Austin, TX. Phelps interviews Lauren Gutterman, discussing her research on queer women in the post World War II period. Gutterman discusses the ways in which women during the post-war period, despite being married to men, engaged within the lesbian community, often forming romantic and sexual relationships out of intimate friendships. She discusses major differences in the social experiences of queer men and women, as well as experiences of coming out in the 1950s and 1960s. Gutterman continues to discuss changes in divorce and child custody laws which occurred in the 1970s and their effects on the lives of women. The custody trial Risher v. Risher is heavily discussed, as well as the supreme court case Roe v. Wade.

Audio interview from the Wes Phelps Podcast Interviews Collection recorded on September 8th, 2022 in Denton, TX. Phelps interviews Dick Peeples on his involvement with gay activism in Dallas in the 1970s and 1980s. Peeples speaks his involvement with the Dallas Gay Political Caucus alongside Steve Wilkins, Louise Young, and Don Baker. He then covers the trial of Baker v. Wade, explaining his efforts to challenge penal code 21.06, a discriminatory code which criminalized homosexual acts, alongside Don Baker and attorney Jim Barber.

Audio recording of radio news reports and interview clips on the assassination of President John F. Kennedy by Lee Harvey Oswald.

Audio recording of an ABC News Radio special on unanswered questions surrounding the assassination of President John F. Kennedy by Lee Harvey Oswald.

Audio cassette from The Black Academy of Arts and Letters recorded during for advertising their 30th anniversary season opening gala and red carpet event to be held on September 23rd 2006. The tape includes date, time, location and ticket information followed by a list of celebrities' who will be in attendance and the noted performers.

Audio cassette from The Black Academy of Arts and Letters recorded during the 'Round Midnight jazz and bepop concert held on September 21st, 1996 at the Clarence Muse Café Theatre. The tape includes the Fabulous Monk Family performing jazz.

Audio cassette from The Black Academy of Arts and Letters recorded during an arts council meeting held on September 2nd, 1987. The audio on the tape is generally intelligible but overall covers summer activities and events that took place around Labor Day.

Audio cassette from The Black Academy of Arts and Letters recorded during a gala event with Denton poet B.F Maiz reading original work for an audience. The tape includes two tracks of audio that have minor distortions but overall allow the poetry to be heard and understood.

Audio cassette from The Black Academy of Arts and Letters recorded during a JBAAL board member retreat meeting on September 14th, 1988. The tape includes two tracks of audio that feature Curtis King as the primary speaker.

Audio cassette from The Black Academy of Arts and Letters recorded during a JBAAL board member retreat meeting on September 14th, 1988. The tape includes two tracks of audio that feature Curtis King as the primary speaker.

Audio cassette from The Black Academy of Arts and Letters recorded during a JBAAL board meeting lead by Curtis King on September 1st, 1987. The tape includes one track of audio that is generally intelligible but covers the topic of board membership.

Audio cassette from The Black Academy of Arts and Letters recorded during the 'Round Midnight jazz and bepop concert held on September 21st, 1996 at the Clarence Muse Café Theatre. The tape includes the Fabulous Monk Family performing jazz.

Interview with Button Forehand and Jerome Alexander discussing their work as hunting guides and other information about the history of the YO Ranch where they worked for 50 years.

Audio tape recording of a Liquid Paper Corporation "Slapstick" meeting held September 10, 1967.

Interview with Margie Simons, Preston Carlton, and Princeton Simons, wife of a cedar chopper and cedar choppers, respectively.

Recital presented at the UNT College of Music Voertman Hall in partial fulfillment of the Doctor of Musical Arts (DMA) degree.