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Oral History Interview with William W. Creacy, October 9, 1993

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Interview with William Creacy concerning his experiences before, during and after his employment in the Civilian Conservation Corps during the Great Depression. Creacy worked at camps in Elephant Butte, Arizona (Company 855); Tucson, Arizona; Grand Lake, Colorado; and Yuma, Arizona.
Date: October 9, 1993
Creator: Henley, Shelly & Creacy, William W.
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library

Oral History Interview with William Waybourn, May 22, 2013

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Interview with William Waybourn, an LGBT activist from Matador, Texas. Waybourn discusses his early life and education, his work in journalism, his partner, the Dallas Times Herald, his family, working for Market Center, the relationship between the gay community and Dallas community figureheads, the Dallas Gay Alliance, the Dallas "gayborhood," Texas Penal Code 21.06 (the "homosexual conduct" law), police harassment, the Fifth Circuit Court, the AIDS epidemic, fighting medical discrimination, the Gay and Lesbian Victory Fund, the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation, and reflections on his career.
Date: May 22, 2013
Creator: Mims, Michael & Waybourn, William
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library

Oral History Interview with Zaida Basora, April 19, 2019

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Transcript of an interview with architect Zaida Basora about her career and her work with the Dallas Green Building program and other programs related to energy efficient design.
Date: April 19, 2019
Creator: Stark, Johnnie & Basora-Adrian, Zaida
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library

Oral History Interview with "Zeke" Campbell, September 14, 1996

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Interview with William M. "Zeke" Campbell, musician, concerning his experiences as a member of the "Light Crust Doughboys" western swing band, 1935-42. Campbell also discusses his early radio career, appearances in the movies of Gene Autry, and his musical influences. Includes a photocopy of a newspaper article from the Fort Worth Star Telegram dated June 17-18, 1981 written by Mike H. Price. Article is titled, "He may not be crusty but he's still in the swing" [1] page.
Date: September 14, 1996
Creator: Daniels, John D.; Schotte, Will & Campbell, William M.
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library

Oral History Interviews with A. W. Dupree Jr., 1990

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Interview with A. W. Dupree Jr., a musician and longtime resident of Hamilton Park from Dallas, Texas. Dupree discusses growing up in Old North Dallas, his initial interest in music, different jobs, joining the Army and working as a mechanic with the Tuskegee Airmen in WWII, forming a band, performing solo at nightclubs, his marriage and family, moving to Hamilton Park, church life, neighborhood developments, and the Civic League.
Date: 1990-07/1990-08
Creator: Wilson, William H. & Dupree, A. W., Jr.
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library

Oral History Interviews with A. W. Dupree, Jr., July-August 1990

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Interview with A. W. Dupree, Jr., a resident of Hamilton Park in Dallas, Texas, regarding his experiences growing up in the area, attending Booker T. Washington High School, his music education, time in the United States Army during World War II, his music career, his family, and the local community.
Date: {1990-07-23,1990-08-16}
Creator: Wilson, William H. & Dupree, A. W., Jr.
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library

Oral History Interviews with Barbara J. Darden, 1990-1991

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Interview with Barbara Darden, a nurse and resident of Hamilton Park from Dallas, Texas. Darden discusses her upbringing and education, nursing, her family, moving to Hamilton Park and the neighborhood's development, school involvement, desegregation and busing, and the Interorganizational Council and the Civic League.
Date: 1990-12/1991-10
Creator: Wilson, William H. & Darden, Barbara J.
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library

Oral History Interviews with Curtis J. Smith, 1990

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Interview with Curtis J. Smith, a airline industry worker and community organizer from Longview, Texas. Smith discusses his family history, his education, working for his father, moving to Dallas, service in the Navy during WWII, getting married, working for Braniff International and American Airlines, living in Hamilton Park, his children, church activities, work with the Interorganizational Council and the Civic League, and development of the neighborhood.
Date: 1990-02/1990-03
Creator: Wilson, William H. & Smith, Curtis J.
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library

Oral History Interviews with Curtis J. Smith, 1990

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Interview with Curtis Smith, an airline employee and community leader, concerning his experiences as a resident of Hamilton Park, Texas from 1956 to 1990. Smith discusses his early life in East Texas, his employment in Dallas, his service in the U.S. Navy during World War II, job promotions with Braniff, African-American housing in Dallas, his decision to purchase a home in Hamilton Park in 1956, flooding problems, shopping in the community, traffic and access problems, social activities, church activities, Civic League, Hamiltonians, Interorganizational Council, political activities, zoning controversies, Willowdell Park, and the "Buy Out."
Date: {1990-02-02,1990-02-23,1990-03-30}
Creator: Wilson, William H. & Smith, Curtis J.
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library

Oral History Interviews with Eiland Collins, 1991

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Interview with Eiland Collins, a community leader, concerning his experiences as a resident of Hamilton Park, Texas from 1962 to 1991. Collins discusses his childhood in East Texas, his segregated education, Civic League and its activities, property violations, home improvements, his presidency of the Civic League, zoning problems, the "Buy Out," and current neighborhood problems.
Date: {1991-01-18,1991-03-12}
Creator: Wilson, William H. & Collins, Eiland
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library

Oral History Interviews with Eiland Collins, 1991

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Interview with Eiland Collins, a Army veteran and civic leader of Hamilton Park from Greenville, Texas. Collins discusses his family background and growing up, service in the Army, work afterwards, his involvement in Hamilton Park United Methodist Church, his work for the Civic League and becoming its president, anti-drug projects, contemporary issues in the neighborhood, the "buy out," and some general reflections on his work for the community.
Date: 1991-01/1991-03
Creator: Wilson, William H. & Collins, Eiland
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library

Oral History Interviews with Freddie and Ola Lee Allen, 1991

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Interview with Freddie and Ola Lee Allen, a married couple living in Hamilton Park, both from Marshall, Texas. The Allens discuss their family backgrounds and education, Mr. Allen's service in the Navy during WWII and work in the construction business, Mrs. Allen's work with Richardson ISD and Richland College, their children, moving to Hamilton Park, the neighborhood's development, organizational activities with the Civic League and others, the schools, desegregation, and the "buy out."
Date: 1991-02/1991-03
Creator: Wilson, William H.; Allen, Freddie & Allen, Ola Lee
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library

Oral History Interviews with John Pinkney, 1995

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Interview with John Pinkney, an employee of Kaiser Permanente from Lancaster, Ohio, regarding his experience with the Kaiser Health Plan of Texas. Pinkney discusses his educational background, his career and work with health plans, PPOs and HMOs, becoming a Health Plan Manager with Kaiser Permanente in Dallas, the healthcare industry in Texas and Kasier's difficulties with it, competition, partnership and communication issues between the company and healthcare providers, and finance and debt.
Date: 1995
Creator: Pinkney, Kathryn & Pinkney, John
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library

Oral History Interviews with Marvin "Smokey" Montgomery, 1996-1997

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Interview with Marvin "Smokey" Montgomery, musician, concerning his experiences as a member of the "Light Crust Doughboys" western swing band, 1935-42. Early musical career as a banjo player in a traveling tent show; employment with the 'Wanderers"; comments about Lee "Pappy" O'Daniel; work with Gene Autry and Republic Pictures; acquiring the nicknames "Junior" and later "Smokey"; "Doughboy recording sessions; comments about Bob Willis; comments about individual members of the "Doughboys" band; World War II and its effects on the "Doughboys"; employment making naval shells for Crown Machine and Tool in Fort Worth; relations between Bob Wills and 'Pappy' O'Daniel; moonlighting on the honky tonk circuit with the "Southern Selectors"; the "Doughboys" record sales; jamming with African-American musicians; performing with the "Duncan Coffee Grinders" during World War II; his return to the "Doughboys" after World War II; performances with the "Texo Hired Hands"; performing with the "Levee Singers" in the Levee Club in Dallas during th the 1960s; comments about rockabilly performer Ronnie Dawson; comments about the record business; his career as a music arranger; operation of the Sumet-Bernet Recording Studios in Fort Worth; employment as music director for the "Big D Jamboree," 1941-60; his song writing career; experiences with "Lefty" …
Date: {1996-09-07,1997-03-13}
Creator: Daniels, John D.; Schotte, Will & Greenhaw, Art
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library

Oral History Interviews with Ocie R. Turner, 1991

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Interview with the Rev. Ocie Turner, a minister at New Mount Zion Baptist Church in Dallas, Marine WWII veteran, and a longtime resident of the Hamilton Park neighborhood, from Mexia, Texas. Turner discusses his family background, education, serving in the Marine Corps at the Battle of Iwo Jima, working as a butcher in Dallas, working in the oil and gas industry, buying his house in Hamilton Park, the growth and development of the neighborhood, community organizations, local businesses, the schools and his children's education, and changes in the neighborhood over time.
Date: 1991-09-14/1991-12-05
Creator: Wilson, William H. & Turner, Ocie R.
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library

Oral History Interviews with Pauline Dixon, August 1990

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Interview with Pauline Dixon, a teacher and longtime resident of Hamilton Park from Pittsburg, Texas. Dixon discusses her education, her father's work as assistant sheriff in segregated Pittsburg, the Classroom Teachers of Dallas, moving to Hamilton Park, development of the area, the "buy out" of the neighborhood, the Civic League, desegregation and busing, and her political work.
Date: August 1990
Creator: Wilson, William H. & Dixon, Pauline
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library

Oral History Interviews with Sheila R. Allen, 1991

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Interview with Sheila Allen, an attorney and longtime resident of Hamilton Park from Dallas, Texas. Allen discusses attending school in Hamilton Park, integration in Richardson ISD and relations between white and black students, discrimination, attending East Texas State and Sam Houston University, struggles finding work afterwards, law school, church life, reflections on the Hamilton Park community, resisting "Buy Out," the Civic League, and thoughts on the future.
Date: 1991-06/1991-09
Creator: Wilson, William H. & Allen, Sheila R.
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library

Oral History Interviews with Sheila R. Allen, 1991

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Interview with Sheila Allen concerning her experiences as a resident of Hamilton Park, Texas from 1958 to 1991. Allen discusses her education at Hamilton Park School, the desegregation of Hamilton Park School, her experiences at Richardson Junior High, her experiences in law school at the University of Texas, the relationships between Hamilton Park and other African-American communities, school activities as a teenager, and the "Buy Out."
Date: {1991-06-21,1991-09-04}
Creator: Wilson, William H. & Allen, Sheila R.
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library

Oral History Interviews with Vivian T. Starks, 1991

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Interview with Vivian Starks, a teacher and longtime resident of Hamilton Park from Bryan, Texas. Starks discusses her education, teaching, her service with the USO, moving to Dallas and Hamilton Park, black schools in Dallas, developing the neighborhood, churches, issues with "buying out," the Civic League, Old North Dallas, desegregation, and contemporary issues.
Date: 1991-04/1991-05
Creator: Wilson, William H. & Starks, Vivian T.
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library

Oral History Interviews with Vivian T. Starks, 1991

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Interview with Vivian Starks, a schoolteacher, concerning her experiences as a resident of Hamilton Park, Texas from 1954 to 1991. Starks discusses her segregated education in Bryan, Texas, Wiley College, her teaching career in segregated Dallas schools, her decision to buy a home in Hamilton Park, transportation problems, home improvements, church activities, Civic League, the "Buy Out," zoning problems, Interorganizational Council and political activities, employment at Hamilton Park School, the desegregation of Hamilton Park School and her transfer to Richardson Independent School District, and Pacesetter.
Date: {1991-04-23,1991-05-08}
Creator: Wilson, William H. & Starks, Vivian T.
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library

Oral History Interviews with Willie B. Johnson, February, 1990

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Interview with Mrs. Willie B. Johnson, a nurse from Kaufman, Texas. Johnson discusses growing up in a sharecropping family, racism in the community, work on the farm, her education, becoming a nurse and working at Parkland Hospital in Dallas, moving to Hamilton Park, unfair access to utilities, her children's education and difficulties with the school system, the Civic League, her husband, her children, other places she's lived, police harassment, the NAACP, and life in Hamilton Park. An addendum includes additional biographical information about Mrs. Johnson.
Date: {1990-02-09,1990-02-22}
Creator: Wilson, William H. & Johnson, Willie B.
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library

Oral History Interviews with Zan W. Holmes Jr., 1991

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Interview with Zan W. Holmes, Jr., a clergyman and community leader, concerning his experiences as a resident of Hamilton Park, Texas during the 1950s and 1960s. Holmes discusses his youth and adolescent years in Waco, segregated education, college at Huston-Tillotson (1952-1956), entry to Perkins School of Theology at Southern Methodist University (1956), organizing the Hamilton Park Methodist Church and his partnership there, his home in Hamilton Park, his political activities, church youth programs, zoning problems, and Hamilton Park School and desegregation.
Date: {1991-09-19,1991-11-05}
Creator: Wilson, William H. & Holmes, Zan W., Jr.
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library

Oral History Interviews with Zan W. Holmes Jr., 1991

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Interview with Zan Holmes Jr., a Methodist pastor and resident of Hamilton Park from Waco, Texas. Holmes discusses his family background, education, seminary, moving to Hamilton Park, building a church, political activity, local development and related issues, youth activities, the schools, and desegregation.
Date: 1991-09/1991-11
Creator: Wilson, William H. & Holmes, Zan W., Jr.
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library

Worse Than Death: The Dallas Nightclub Murders and the Texas Multiple Murder Law

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In 1984, a Moroccan national named Abdelkrim Belachheb walked into Iannis Restaurant, a trendy Dallas nightclub, and gunned down seven people. Six died. Despite the fact that the crimes occurred in a state that prides itself on being tough on criminals, the death penalty was not an option for the Belachheb jury. Even though he had committed six murders, and his guilt was never in question (despite his insanity defense), his crimes were not capital murders under 1984 statutes. As a direct result of this crime, during the 1985 regular session the Texas Legislature passed House Bill 8--the “multiple murder” statute--to make serial killing and mass murder capital crimes. Belachheb’s case serves as an excellent example to explore capital punishment and the insanity defense. Furthermore, Belachheb’s easy entry into the United States (despite his violent record in Europe) highlights our contemporary fear over lax immigration screening and subsequent terrorism. The case is unique in that debate usually arises from an execution. Belachheb was given life imprisonment and is currently under maximum security--a fate some would argue is “worse than death.” He is scheduled to have his first parole hearing in 2004, the twentieth anniversary of his crime. “This is a …
Date: October 15, 2003
Creator: Lavergne, Gary M.
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library