Interview with Estel G. Burns, World War II veteran and B-17 pilot, as part of the Tarrant County War Veterans Project. The interview includes Burns' personal experiences of childhood and education in Missouri, farm life in the Great Depression, basic training, and training for aviation mechanics at Sheppard Field, Texas. Additionally, Burns talks about his family history, his 1942 enlistment in Army Air Corps, being accepted into pilot training, marriage to Dorothy Perrin, life at Deenethorpe Air Base, England, crew members and their respective duties on his plane, various missions bombing German targets, his feelings about missions against civilian targets, opinions of Luftwaffe pilots and of Germans, and his postwar Air Force career, including service in the Korean War. The interview includes an appendix of photographs.

A report discussing and area of 2.5 square miles along the southwest border of the pre-Cambrian granitic rocks complex in the pre-Cambrian core of the Harney Peak region, Black Hills, South Dakota that was mapped to determine the relationship between the granite-pegmatite complex and the pegmatites containing beryl and other industrial minerals. This investigation was part of the U.S. Geological Surveys program for the investigation of domestic beryllium resources and was carried out on behalf of the Atomic Energy Commission.

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating summaries about three different news stories. The following were detailed: Spending federal funding on mass transit, the occupation of Wounded Knee, and Juan Peron was to visit Argentina.

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about Wounded Knee residents demanding federal authorities to end the confrontation.

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a chief negotiator returning to the Pine Ridge Reservation in Wounded Knee.

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about a group of militant Indians and sympathizers who raided the wounded knee, south Dakota trading post and barricaded themselves in a nearby church.

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about Wounded Knee about the occupation of Wounded Knee. Tensions were easing as negotiations resumed between the Justice Department and the American Indian Movement.

Supplementary publication outlining events and information for the 25th International Forest of Friendship celebration, which memorializes contributors to aviation and aerospace with engraved plaques in the forest. It includes portraits and biographical sketches for the 40 people to be honored in 2001.

Executive Correspondence - Letter from South Dakota Governor M. Michael Rounds to each member of the BRAC Commission thanking the Commission for the support given to Ellsworth Air Force Base.

Regional Hearing - State Input from Mount Rushmore to the BRAC Commission.

Regional Hearing - State Input from Rapid City, SD to the BRAC Commission. Includes the Newspaper clippings.