Transcript of an oral interview with Al Heigel. When Heigel finished high school in June, 1944, he joined the Navy at Little Rock, Arkansas and went for boot training at San Diego. He was assigned as a radar operator and reported aboard the USS Independence (CVL-22) at Pearl Harbor. Heigel describes the light carrier and its construction and features. He also speaks of the time the Independence was hit by a torpedo off Tarawa in 1943. Heigel then describes events off Okinawa: watching the USS Franklin (CV-13) being bombed off Okinawa; locating and shooting down kamikazes; describing battle stations; aircraft water landings; being in a typhoon, etc. After the war ended, the Independence served as a troop transport taking GIs back home to the US. He describes bunks in the hangar deck and arriving in Portland, Oregon. As the Independence was being prepared for the Bikini Atoll atomic tests, Heigel got off becuase he had the requisite amount of points allowing him to be discharged. He then entered the lumber business, married and raised family.

Transcript of an oral interview with Al Heigel. When Heigel finished high school in June, 1944, he joined the Navy at Little Rock, Arkansas and went for boot training at San Diego. He was assigned as a radar operator and reported aboard the USS Independence (CVL-22) at Pearl Harbor. Heigel describes the light carrier and its construction and features. He also speaks of the time the Independence was hit by a torpedo off Tarawa in 1943. Heigel then describes events off Okinawa: watching the USS Franklin (CV-13) being bombed off Okinawa; locating and shooting down kamikazes; describing battle stations; aircraft water landings; being in a typhoon, etc. After the war ended, the Independence served as a troop transport taking GIs back home to the US. He describes bunks in the hangar deck and arriving in Portland, Oregon. As the Independence was being prepared for the Bikini Atoll atomic tests, Heigel got off becuase he had the requisite amount of points allowing him to be discharged. He then entered the lumber business, married and raised family.

Video footage from the Resource Center LGBT Collection. Video starts at 0:43. Video is an advertisement for the Walk for Life event in Kansas City.

Video footage from the Resource Center LGBT Collection. Video advertising the Walk for Life in Dallas and Kanas City.

Letter from I. H. Kempner to the Galveston News-Tribune asking the organization to extract names of the correspondents and reporters on various metropolitan papers who attended the National Democratic Party convention in 1929 and had previously attended the Republican Party convention.

Letter from I. H. Kempner to Paul Uhlmann discussing a lawsuit between him and Mr. Thornton.

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story of a rented plane returning from Kansas City to Addison airport flew into a rainstorm along the Texas Oklahoma border.

Letter from A. H. Blackshear Jr. to O. A. Ingram enclosing a check covering a due note and accrued interest for Daniel W. Kempner, along with a request to return Daniel W. Kempner's note.

Letter from O. A. Ingram to Daniel W. Kempner returning a note showing payment of interest, along with enclosing two insurance policies.

Letter from A. H. Blackshear, Jr. to D. W. Kempner discussing about a check covering interest rates and asking to sign a note, mail it using a self-addressed envelope.

Letter from Blackshear, A. H., Jr. to Commerce Trust Company enclosing a check regarding the renewal note.

Letter from A. H. Blackshear to O. A. Ingram informing him that he has forwarded the documents to Mr. Danile W. Kempner, who is in France, to be signed and returned as requested.

Letter from O. A. Ingram of the Commerce Trust Company to the H. Kempner firm asking them to forward some documents for Mr. Daniel W. Kempner to sign.

Letter from the H. Kempner firm to the Commerce Trust Company enclosing a check for the interest owed on a $6,000 loan.

Letter from A. H. Blackshear to Daniel W. Kempner forwarding some paperwork from the Commerce Trust Corporation that arrived while he was out of the office.

Letter from George W. Dillon to D. W. Kempner discussing how Kempner's note of $6,100 is increasing in interest rate.

Letter from A. H. Blackshear, Jr. to George W. Dillion enclosing a check for $76.25 to cover interest rates.

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about the Dallas Cowboys playing the Kansas City Chiefs in Kansas City, MO.

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story going over the daily sports highlights.

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story.

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story.

Pay reservation request form signed by Dora G. Bevis authorizing the military to withdraw $25 from her pay each month to be converted into war bonds.

Photograph of a Missouri Pacific caboose in Kansas City, Missouri. There is a second caboose visible behind it. Written below the image are "Kansas City, Mo. Sept 23rd 1974" and "R. H. Carlson."

Letter from a family member to their sister saying that they have had a lot of rain in Kansas City, Missouri and that the weather will cool down since summer is over.