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Civilian Conservation Corps History Oral History Project
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World War II Pearl Harbor Survivors Oral History Project
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Texas Community History Oral History Project
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Texas Political History Oral History Project
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Women in the Texas Republican Party Oral History Project
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Green Pioneers in North Texas
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World War II Pearl Harbor Survivors (Navy) Oral History Project
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Dallas LGBT Oral History Project
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Business History Oral History Project
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DFW Immigration Oral History Project
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Oral History Interview with Richard Grissom, May 9, 1996
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Interview with Richard Grissom, a Navy veteran, concerning his experiences while aboard the submarine USS Tirante in the Pacific Theater during World War II. Submarine School, New London, Connecticut, 1944; his training as an electrician's mate; qualification examination; assignment to the Tirante, 1945; various patrols around the Japanese home islands.
Date:
May 9, 1996
Creator:
Maglaughlin, Barry & Grissom, Richard
Object Type:
Book
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The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Lloyd C. Cross, April 9, 1997
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Interview with Lloyd C. Cross, a Navy veteran, concerning his experiences while aboard the submarines USS S-45 USS Sunfish, USS Spearfish, USS Pogy in the Pacific Theater during World War II. Pre-war duty aboard the USS California and the heavy cruiser USS Vincennes, 1935-39; Submarine School, New London, Connecticut, 1940; his responsibilities as a fireman; various patrols in the Sea of Japan.
Date:
April 9, 1997
Creator:
Maglaughlin, Barry & Cross, Lloyd C.
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Book
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The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Hollis G. Duell, May 22, 1996
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Interview with Hollis G. Duell, a Navy veteran, concerning his experiences while aboard the submarine USS Sargo in the Pacific Theater during World War II. Assignment to the Sargo, 1941; his responsibilities as a yeoman; early war patrols off the Netherlands East Indies and the Philippines; transfer to the Submarine Division Commander's Office, Pearl harbor, 1944; postwar duty in the Submarine Service.
Date:
May 22, 1996
Creator:
Maglaughlin, Barry & Duell, Hollis G.
Object Type:
Book
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with William J. Fisk, December 26, 1996
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Interview with William J. Fisk, a Navy veteran (VPB-123), concerning his experiences in the Pacific Theater during World War II. Assignment to the crew of a PB4Y-2; his unauthorized participation in a combat mission out of Okinawa over the Sea of Japan; battle damage to his plane; description of Hiroshima and Nagasaki from aerial observations after the dropping of the atomic bombs.
Date:
December 26, 1996
Creator:
Alexander, William J. & Fisk, William J.
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Text
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The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Leo Nugent, October 5, 1996
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Interview with Leo Nugent, an Army Air Corps veteran, concerning his experiences at Hickam Field with the 11th Bombardment Group during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. Appendix includes a photocopied data sheet on the 11th and 5th Bomb Groups [1 leaf]
Date:
October 5, 1996
Creator:
Blanchette, Scott & Nugent, Leo B.
Object Type:
Text
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The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Norman Benedict, May 7, 1996
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Interview with Norman Benedict, a Navy veteran, concerning his experiences as an engineering officer with Submarine Division 46 and Submarine Division 106 in the Pacific Theater while stationed at Pearl Harbor during World War II. Assignment to the USS Cuttlefish, 1941; transfer to the Engineering and Repair Department, Pearl Harbor, 1942, as a division engineer; comments about submarine maintenance, repair, and modernization.
Date:
May 7, 1996
Creator:
Maglaughlin, Barry & Benedict, Norman
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 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 Interview with Roy T. Holland, September 26, 1996
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Interview with Roy Holland, a Navy veteran, concerning his experiences aboard the battleship USS Tennessee during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
Date:
September 26, 1996
Creator:
Sanchez, Jim & Holland, Roy T.
Object Type:
Text
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The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with J. Frank Rollins, July 20, 1996
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Interview with J. Frank Rollins, an oilman and a geophysicist, concerning his work experience with Petty Geophysical Engineering Company doing refraction seismic work; his employment with Geophysical Service, Inc.; doing reflection and refraction work in 1936; oil exploration in South America; work in oil field instrumentation equipment; work as a "computer" interpreting geological data; founding of Rayflex Exploration Company in 1948; technological developments for oil field exploration; geochemical surveying; the sale of Rayflex to Phillips-Eckhart in 1962; his work as a geophysical consultant; the application of oil field technology to national defense; German espionage activity in South America during World War II; and pro-German activity in South Louisiana during World War II.
Date:
July 20, 1996
Creator:
Daniels, John D. & Rollins, J. Frank
Object Type:
Book
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Duane Cleere, April 4, 1996
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Interview with Duane Cleere, a Navy veteran, concerning his experiences aboard the submarine USS Hoe in the Pacific Theater during World War II.
Date:
April 4, 1996
Creator:
Maglaughlin, Barry & Cleere, Duane
Object Type:
Book
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Claude O. Hocker, October 7, 1995
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Interview with Claude Hocker, a Navy veteran, concerning his experiences aboard the battleship USS Tennessee during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
Date:
October 8, 1995
Creator:
White, Jack A. & Hocker, Claude O.
Object Type:
Text
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Edwin C. Hunt, October 19, 1995
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Interview with Edwin Hunt, a Navy veteran, concerning his experiences aboard the battleship USS Pennsylvania during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
Date:
October 19, 1995
Creator:
Maynard, Stephen R. & Hunt, Edwin C., Jr.
Object Type:
Text
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Robert M. Allen, October 14, 1995
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Interview with Robert Allen, a Navy veteran, concerning his experiences while temporarily assigned to the Submarine Base during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. (His permanent assignment was aboard the aircraft tender USS Avocet. He was attending signalman school at the Submarine Base).
Date:
October 14, 1995
Creator:
Maglaughlin, Barry & Allen, Robert M.
Object Type:
Book
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Paul Dillon, November 3, 1993
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Interview with Paul Dillon concerning his experiences before and during his employment in the Civilian Conservation Corps during the Great Depression. Dillon worked at a camp in Huntingdon, Pennsylvania (Company 1381). Includes an appendix with Dillon's CCC discharge papers and a photograph of his camp.
Date:
November 3, 1993
Creator:
Lovell, Bonnie & Dillon, Paul
Object Type:
Text
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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 Interview with Odie Mitchell, October 18,1993
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Interview with Odie Mitchell concerning his experiences before, during, and after his employment in the Civilian Conservation Corps during the Great Depression. Mitchell worked at camps in Flagstaff, Arizona and Kingman, Arizona.
Date:
October 18, 1993
Creator:
Early, Brice & Mitchell, Odie
Object Type:
Text
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The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interviews with Eddie Bernice Johnson, 1973
Interview with Eddie Bernice Johnson, nurse and Democratic member of the Texas House of Representatives from Dallas, who discusses her experiences and personal views as a member of the Sixty-third Legislature. She also talks about her early life in a segregated society, her early political activities, her campaign for the Texas House of Representatives in 1972, the Black Caucus, the Women's Caucus, reform legislation, appropriations, personal legislation, her altercation with Comptroller Robert Calvert, and she comments on Governor Dolph Briscoe.
Date:
{1973-08-03,1973-08-13,1973-10-02}
Creator:
Marcello, Ronald E. & Johnson, Eddie Bernice, 1934-
Object Type:
Book
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with W. J. Brooks, September 30, 1990
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Interview with W. J. Brooks concerning his experiences before, during, and after his employment in the Civilian Conservation Corps during the Great Depression. Brooks worked in camps in Jackson, Kentucky (Company 547) and Panaca, Nevada (Company 2513).
Date:
September 30, 1990
Creator:
Dreyer, Janice & Brooks, W. J.
Object Type:
Text
System:
The UNT Digital Library
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 Joseph Vivian, February 17, 1994
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Interview with Joseph Vivian concerning his experiences before, during, and after his employment in the Civilian Conservation Corps during the Great Depression. Vivian worked at a camp in Ratcliff, Texas (Company 1803).
Date:
February 17, 1994
Creator:
Henley, Shelly & Vivian, Joseph
Object Type:
Text
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 Interview with William O. Holston, February 12, 1994
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Interview with William Holston concerning his experiences before, during, and after his employment in the Civilian Conservation Corps during the Great Depression. Holston worked at a camp in Powers, Oregon. Includes an appendix.
Date:
February 12, 1994
Creator:
Henley, Shelly & Holston, William O.
Object Type:
Text
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Hollis J. Willett, October 18, 1993
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Interview with Hollis Willett concerning his experiences before, during, and after his employment in the Civilian Conservation Corps during the Great Depression. Willett worked at camps in Cottonwood, Arizona and Lake Arthur, New Mexico (Company 2842).
Date:
October 18, 1993
Creator:
Pinkney, Kathryn & Willett, Hollis J.
Object Type:
Text
System:
The UNT Digital Library