Interview with executive director of resource Center Dallas Cece Cox. The interview includes Cox's personal experiences about childhood in Ohio and Bartlesville, Oklahoma, education at Northwestern University, moving to Dallas, and having a career as a photojournalist and studio photographer. Additionally, Cox discusses her coming out narrative, involvement with groups such as Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation and Dallas Gay Alliance/Dallas Gay and Lesbian Alliance, as well as her decision to enter SMU Law School, and her relationship with her partner, adopted son, and family members. The interview includes an appendix with newspaper articles from the Dallas Morning News and flyers.

Interview with Representative Fred Agnich, a Republican Texas state legislator from Minnesota. Agnich discusses his childhood and education; moving to Texas and becoming a statesman; lobbying and how to control its influence; staffing in government offices; reform of the legislating process; his thoughts on proposed ethics legislation; single-member and multi-member congressional districts; party dynamics in the legislature; the "Dirty Thirty" and the Sharpestown scandal; reform of the insurance industry; and voter registration.

Interview with Representative Jack Blanton, Democratic Texas State legislator from Carrollton, Texas. Blanton discusses his experiences in the second, third, and fourth special sessions of the 62nd Legislature, including funding state primaries, the election of house speaker Rayford Price, Governor Preston Smith's budget proposal, insurance rate making, the State Insurance Commission, and the Texas insurance industry.

Interview with James Stroud, who was an employee of the Dallas Cotton Exchange and Home Owners Loan Corporation, from Dallas, Texas. Stroud recounts his experience during the Great Depression and New Deal era in the DFW area, including his father's meat processing business, the beginnings of HOLC in Dallas, the kind's of people they assisted, the terms for HOLC loans, government finance, and his opinions of Franklin Roosevelt.

Interview with Marzena Kasiazkiewicz, a immigrant to the Dallas area from Kraków, Poland. Kasiazkiewicz discusses first coming to the United States, caring for her mother, her parents, growing up in communist Poland, deciding to stay in the US, adjusting to the American workplace, moving to Texas, her partner and children, the effect of 9/11 on immigrants, learning English, working in eye-care, and John Paul II.

Interview with Norma Adams-Wade, a journalist in Dallas, Texas. The interview includes biographical information about her life growing up, her educational background, and her career doing investigative reporting and other writing for The Dallas Morning News.

Interview with Senator Ike Harris, a Republican Texas state legislator from Dallas, Texas. Harris discusses the first regular session of the 62nd State Legislature in early 1971, including his response to Governor Smith's bond financing plan, his thoughts on Governor Smith as a statesman, state tuition, taxation, education reform, the Sharpstown case, and redistricting.

Interview with O.R. Sparkman, a Marine WWII veteran and POW from Dallas, Texas. Stationed in China before the war, Sparkman was captured in December 1941 by the Japanese in Beijing and interned at various camps in occupied China and Korea before finishing the war at Hakodate, Japan.