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Oral History Interview with Dana Lodge, March 19, 2013
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Interview with Dana Lodge, an employee of the Denton Conventions and Visitors Bureau from Dallas, Texas. Lodge discusses growing up, her education, her work in the restaurant industry, entering the hospitality industry and her work with the Bureau, festivals and events in Denton, local history, and plans for the future of Denton. In appendix are pictures of the Denton County Courthouse and the Confederate Soldiers memorial. Includes an appendix.
Date:
March 19, 2013
Creator:
Stallings, Chelsea & Lodge, Dana
Object Type:
Book
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with David Braden, October 8, 1994
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Interview with David Braden, an Army Air Force WWII veteran from Dallas, Texas. Braden served as a navigator/radar-bombardier on a B-29 Superfortress in the Pacific; he recounts being in ROTC at North Texas Agricultural College and signing up for the Air Corps Reserves, flight training, the B-29, his crewmates, assignment to Saipan, organization of a bombing mission, the jetstream, flak and fighters, being shot down, switching crews, targets, briefings, recreation, Japanese holdouts on Saipan, fighter escorts, returning stateside, and leaving the service. In appendix is a letter sent to Dr. Marcello by Braden containing some corrections for the interview.
Date:
October 8, 1994
Creator:
Marcello, Ronald E. & Braden, David, 1924-
Object Type:
Book
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with David Taffet, November 12, 2013
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Interview with David Taffet, a Dallas-area LGBT activist from Yonkers, New York. Taffet discusses his education, coming out, anti-war activism at State University of New York at Albany, the SUNY Gay Alliance, moving to Dallas, the AIDS epidemic, police harassment and entrapment, working for the Custom Shop and the Dallas Voice, the "AIDS cocktail" and advancements in treatment of the illness, and grassroots politics.
Date:
November 12, 2013
Creator:
Graham, Celeste & Taffet, David
Object Type:
Book
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Diane Ragsdale, April 21, 2014
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Interview with Diane Ragsdale, a civil rights activist and city councilwoman from Dallas, Texas. Ragsdale discusses her work with the NAACP Youth Council and Southern Christian Leadership Conference as a young person, school integration, various civil rights campaigns in Dallas, the South Dallas Information Center, neighborhood planning issues, marches and demonstrations, and her work on city council.
Date:
April 21, 2014
Creator:
Edelbrock, Kyle & Ragsdale, Diane
Object Type:
Book
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Diego Echevarria, October 14, 2015
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Interview with Diego Echevarria, an Mexican-American immigrant from Mexico City. Echevarria discusses his childhood, life in Mexico City, living in Piedras Negras, Coahuila, moving to Texas City, experiences in school, moving to Irving, Texas, ESL, reflections on Mexico City, the visa process, the DREAM Act, employment, and immigration rhetoric in America.
Date:
October 14, 2015
Creator:
Nichols, Cynthia & Echevarria, Diego
Object Type:
Book
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Donald Stanley Vogel, February 12, 2003
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Interview with Donald Stanley Vogel, artist and art dealer, concerning his recollections concerning painter Perry Nichols. He discusses his early years as a painter after coming to Dallas from Chicago, 1942; comments about the "Dallas Nine"; building a clientele for his paintings; his relationship with John Rosenfield, the arts and music critic for the Dallas Morning News; his business partnership with Betty McLean in the Betty McLean Art Gallery, 1951-54; his criticism of Nichols's work habits; comments about Nichols's personal life; his role in Nichols's mural painted for the Belo Corporation; his critique of the Belo mural; the importance of self-discipline to the successful artist.
Date:
February 12, 2003
Creator:
Balsley, Gerald & Vogel, Donald S., 1917-2004
Object Type:
Book
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Douglas Chadwick, July 19, 2012
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Interview with Douglas Chadwick, former executive director of the UNT Foundation from Dallas, Texas. Chadwick discusses his family background and education at Southern Methodist University, his career in administration, work as Director of Planned Giving at UNT, involvement with the UNT Foundation and work as executive director, building connections and financial support, changes in the Foundation through the years, thoughts on the future of the Foundation and University, and his retirement.
Date:
July 19, 2012
Creator:
Kilgore, Deborah K. & Chadwick, Douglas
Object Type:
Book
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with E. Maurice Keathley, May 24, 1995
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Interview with E. Maurice Keathely, an employee of Prudential Insurance from Houston, Texas, who was involved in the Kaiser-Prudential joint venture. Keahtley discusses his educational background, work at Prudential, his responsibilities with "Kai-Pru", the value and benefits of the venture, key members of the companies, the financial arrangement and organization of the venture, marketing, HMO's, inter-company cooperation, difficulties and criticisms, and the Texas Medical Association.
Date:
May 24, 1995
Creator:
Pinkney, Kathryn & Keathley, E. Maurice
Object Type:
Book
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Edward C. Fritz, February 7, 1983
Interview with Edward C. "Ned" Fritz, former president of the Dallas Chapter of the National Audubon Society and an environmental activist from Dallas, Texas. Fritz discusses his environmental activities, and public opinion towards environmental movements throughout the years, include his own opinions about the Army Corps of Engineers.
Date:
February 7, 1983
Creator:
Marcello, Ronald E. & Fritz, Edward C.
Object Type:
Book
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Edward J. Drake, 2002
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Interview with attorney and Army Air Forces veteran Edward J. Drake. The interview includes Drake's personal experiences about being a B-17 pilot in the European Theater during World War II, youth and education in Dallas, Texas, enlistment in the Aviation Cadet Program, various training programs, bombing transportation facilities during and after the Ardennes Offensive, crash-landing in Belgium after his plane was hit, and linking up with American troops. Additionally, Drake talks about his assignment to the 91st Bomb Group, the routine for a typical mission, formation flying, flying through enemy flak, rest and relaxation on-base and in London, recuperating from a collapsed lung, his return to combat for three more missions, and his return to the crash site of his plane 57 years later. The interview includes an appendix with "The Last Flight of 'Jezebel,'" written by Drake.
Date:
October 16, 2002
Creator:
Marcello, Ronald E. & Drake, Edward J.
Object Type:
Book
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Emre Ersin Ozer, January 19, 2013
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Interview with Emre Ersin Ozer, a software engineer and immigrant to Texas from Sivas, Turkey. Ozer discusses his family background, his education, his marriage, Turkish culture and community in the US, the effect of the 2008 financial crisis, immigration, graduate school, work, and citizenship.
Date:
January 19, 2013
Creator:
Hedrick, Amy & Ozer, Emre Ersin
Object Type:
Book
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Ethel Reisberg Schectman, March 24, 2001
Interview with Ethel Reisberg Schectman regarding her experiences during World War II. She begins by discussing her family background: her parents were Jews born in Poland and emigrated to the United States. Ethel's European aunts, uncles and grandparents all likely died in the Holocaust. As a first grade student, she taught her mother, a Polish immigrant, how to read and write English. She recalls, wartime rationing, Victory Gardens, scrap drives, and antisemitism among her school-aged classmates in Dallas, Texas, and the end of the war.
Date:
March 24, 2001
Creator:
Cox, Floyd & Schectman, Ethel Reisberg
Object Type:
Sound
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The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Ethel Reisberg Schectman, March 24, 2001
Interview with Ethel Reisburg Schectman of Fort Worth, Texas, who was born in New York City during the Great Depression to Jewish Polish immigrant parents. The interview includes Hill's personal experiences of World War II on the home front, including memories of D-Day, iron metal scrap drives, victory gardens, rationing, V-E and V-J Days, and what it was like being Jewish in Dallas during that time.
Date:
March 24, 2001
Creator:
Cox, Floyd & Schectman, Ethel Reisberg
Object Type:
Text
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Eva McMillan, April 25, 2014
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Interview with Eva McMillan, a civil rights activist from Tennessee. McMillan discusses growing up in the segregated South, her family, early involvement in civil rights, experiences of racism and discrimination, her son Ernie's establishing a chapter of the SNCC at UT Arlington, Ernie's arrests and imprisonment, founding various advocacy and activism groups in Dallas, milestones and tragedies of the Civil Rights Movement, conflict with the police and the decline of the SNCC, and reflections on her work. In appendix are photos of McMillan and Dallas-area civil rights activists, a flier, and newspaper clippings.
Date:
April 25, 2014
Creator:
Smith, Tiffany & McMillan, Eva
Object Type:
Book
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Francisco A. Gonzalez, October 30, 2012
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Interview with Francisco Gonzalez, a journalist from San Miguel, El Salvador. Gonzalez discusses his education, growing up during the civil war, having his appendix removed, his brother's involvement in the war, attending medical school, transition to law school and working as a journalist, moving to the US and attending UNT, work with the Dallas Magazine, his marriage, and revisiting El Salvador.
Date:
October 30, 2012
Creator:
Malone, Timothy A. & Gonzalez, Francisco A.
Object Type:
Book
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Frank A. Hoke, November 24, 1971
Interview with Frank A. Hoke, banker and attorney. The interview includes Hoke's personal experiences about being an employee of the Dallas regional office of the Home Owners Loan Corporation during the New Deal. Hoke talks about mortgage buying, loan amortization, insurance, home improvements, accounting procedures, politics and patronage, taxes and appraising, foreclosures, and loan servicing.
Date:
November 24, 1971
Creator:
Marcello, Ronald E. & Hoke, Frank A.
Object Type:
Book
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Fred Agnich, August 17, 1973
Interview with Representative Fred J. Agnich, a Republican Texas state legislator from Dallas, Texas. Agnich discusses his experience in the regular session of the 63rd Legislature, including the large influx of new representatives in the session; the legislative process; coalitions and relations between congressmen; the Appropriations Committee; taxation; ethics reform and the Ethics Commission; reform of campaign financing; reform of the House Speaker race; environmental legislation; and reflections on the accomplishments of the session.
Date:
August 17, 1973
Creator:
Marcello, Ronald E. & Agnich, Fred J.
Object Type:
Book
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Fred J. Agnich, January 6, 1972
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.
Date:
January 6, 1972
Creator:
Riddlesperger, James & Agnich, Fred J.
Object Type:
Book
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Gayle Reaves-King, April 4, 2012
Interview with Gayle Reaves-King,a journalist in Fort Worth, Texas. The interview includes biographical information about her life growing up, her educational background, family life, and her career with The Dallas Morning News and other newspapers.
Date:
April 5, 2012
Creator:
Ayers, Cesta & Reaves-King, Gayle
Object Type:
Text
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Gene Freeland, October 12, 1980
Interview with Gene Freeland, an assistant to the regional representative at the Labor Department from Dallas, Texas. He discusses the labor climate in Texas, his involvement with the Texas American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations, and representation of unions in politics.
Date:
October 12, 1980
Creator:
King, Amelia Kay & Freeland, Gene
Object Type:
Book
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with George and Wanda Holcombe, January 2, 2017
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Interview with George Holcombe, a Methodist pastor and civil rights activist from Houston, Texas, and his wife and associate Wanda, from Sims, Texas. The Holcombes discuss their family origins, initial exposure to racial problems and civil rights, their respective educations, pastoral work in Baton Rouge and Chicago, the Ku Klux Klan and dangers encountered, work with the Ecumenical Institute of Chicago and empowering black communities, the 1968 Chicago riots, Fifth City, and similar work in Australia and the Philippines.
Date:
January 2, 2017
Creator:
Czap, Joseph; Holcombe, George & Holcombe, Wanda
Object Type:
Book
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Gloria Campos, October 24, 2012
Interview with Gloria Campos, a journalist in Dallas, Texas. The interview includes biographical information about her life growing up, her educational background, and her career as a reporter.
Date:
October 24, 2012
Creator:
Aguilar, Elvira & Campos, Gloria
Object Type:
Text
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with H. William Taylor, January 20, 1986
Interview with William Taylor, an executive at Caltex Petroleum Corporation from New York, about his experiences working for the company in the Philippines and Thailand, the joint venture refinery in Thailand, expansion of the company, and the move of headquarters from New York to Dallas.
Date:
January 20, 1986
Creator:
Marcello, Ronald E. & Taylor, H. William
Object Type:
Book
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Harold Corey, November 19, 2003
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Interview with businessman Harold Corey. The interview includes Corey's personal experiences about the Texas International Pop Festival. Corey talks about his parents' reaction to the social, political, and cultural changes of the Sixties, his early interest in popular music, protests against the Vietnam War, conflicts with the redneck culture, the influence of the Beatles on the music of the Sixties, the influence of the "British Invasion," meeting the Grand Funk Railroad at the festival, Hog Farm, Janis Joplin, Led Zeppelin, the sale and use of drugs, the trip tent, festival security, activities at the campgrounds, comments about Ten Years After, and the lasting effects of the festival on his life. The interview includes an appendix with a campground map and festival advertisement.
Date:
November 19, 2003
Creator:
Tittle, Dennis & Corey, Harold
Object Type:
Book
System:
The UNT Digital Library