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Oral History Interview with Rayford Price, January 3, 1972
Interview with former Democratic member of the Texas House of Representatives Rayford Price, an attorney from Palestine, Texas. The interview includes Price's personal views on general problems in the Texas state government, taxation, lobby activities, annual legislative sessions, reforms in the office of the House Speaker, insurance legislation, appropriations, legislative ethics, redistricting, and House and Senate relations.
Date:
September 24, 1973
Creator:
Riddlesperger, James W. & Price, Rayford
Object Type:
Book
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with L. DeWitt Hale, September 30, 1973
Interview with Democratic Representative and attorney L. DeWitt Hale, from Corpus Christi, Texas. In the interview, Hale discusses his experiences as a member of the Regular Session of the Sixty-third Texas Legislature. He also talks about his personal views concerning reform legislation and appropriations, and comments on fellow politician Governor Dolph Briscoe.
Date:
September 30, 1973
Creator:
Marcello, Ronald E. & Hale, L. DeWitt
Object Type:
Book
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with L. DeWitt Hale, September 3, 1975
Interview with Democratic attorney and member of the Texas House of Representatives L. DeWitt Hale, from Corpus Christi, Texas. In the interview, Hale discusses his experiences as a member of the Sixty-fourth Legislature. He also expresses his personal thoughts and memories on the House speakership race, appropriations, committee appointments, public school financing, public utilities legislation, constitutional revisions, personal legislation, and comments on fellow politician Governor Dolph Briscoe.
Date:
September 3, 1975
Creator:
Marcello, Ronald E. & Hale, L. DeWitt
Object Type:
Book
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with David Allred, November 13, 1968
Interview with former member of the Texas House of Representatives David Allred, a journalist from Wichita Falls and son of former Democratic Governor James V. Allred. The interview includes Allred's personal experiences while serving as a member of the Special Session of the Sixtieth Legislature, as well as his views on revenue legislation, the reform of liquor laws, increases in state sales tax, changes in House rules, and beer and liquor lobbies. The interview also includes Allred's comments on fellow politicians and other House members.
Date:
September 30, 1971
Creator:
Marcello, Ronald E. & Allred, David
Object Type:
Book
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Oscar H. Mauzy, June 23, 1971
Interview with former Democratic Texas Senator Oscar H. Mauzy, an attorney from Dallas, Texas. The interview includes Mauzy's personal experiences while serving as a member of the Sixty-second Legislature. The interview also includes Mauzy's views on revenue bills, corporate profits tax, the Sharpstown stock-fraud scandal, legislative ethics, appropriations, redistricting, and personal legislation.
Date:
September 22, 1971
Creator:
Marcello, Ronald E. & Mauzy, Oscar H.
Object Type:
Book
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Uell M. Carter and George Killian, September 19, 1970
Interview with Uell M. Carter and George Killian, who are both World War II veterans and members of the "Lost Battalion" from Amarillo, Texas. In the interview, the two veterans describe what it was like to be Japanese prisoners-of-war. They both discuss their experiences and memories of the fall of Java and the capture of Surabaja in 1942, and also of the bicycle camp Batavia in 1942-45.
Date:
September 19, 1970
Creator:
Marcello, Ronald E.; Carter, Uell M. & Killian, George
Object Type:
Book
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Emory M. Spencer, September 30, 1971
Interview with attorney Emory M. Spencer. The interview includes Spencer's personal experiences about being an attorney. Spencer talks about the development of the Coastal Bend area of South Texas 1920-71, cotton farming, Irish settlers and the Ku Klux Klan, gambling, the development of the Aransas County Airport, oil exploration, housing subdivisions, the Coastal Bend Regional Planning Commission, hurricanes, agriculture, property values, and prominent citizens of the county.
Date:
September 30, 1971
Creator:
Stephens, A. Ray & Spencer, Emory M.
Object Type:
Book
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Charles Witt, September 28, 1977
Interview with Navy veteran Charles Witt. The interview includes Witt's personal experiences while aboard the battleship USS Maryland during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. The interview also includes an appendix with a travel journal.
Date:
September 28, 1977
Creator:
Marcello, Ronald E. & Witt, Charles
Object Type:
Book
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Fred Agnich, September 9, 1977
Interview with Fred Agnich, businessman and member of the Texas House of Representatives, Republican. The interview includes Agnich's personal experiences as a member of the 65th Legislature. Agnich talks about budget surplus, highway appropriations, public school financing, the Peveto bill, and personal legislation.
Date:
September 9, 1977
Creator:
Marcello, Ronald E. & Agnich, Fred
Object Type:
Book
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with William Cottingame, September 13, 1978
Interview with Navy veteran Paul R. Rose. The interview includes Belotti's personal experiences while aboard the aircraft tender USS Curtiss during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
Date:
September 13, 1978
Creator:
Marcello, Ronald E. & Cottingame, William
Object Type:
Book
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Billy Barker, September 3, 1977
Interview with homemaker Billie Simpson Barker. The interview includes Barker's personal experiences about rural life in Denton County, Texas from 1925-1985. Barker talks about her father's sawmill operation, creek flooding, threshing operations, changes in land ownership, her husband's death, effects of the Great Depression, social life, the county's longtime residents, recreational activities, epidemics, wildlife problems, the tornado of June 8, 1937, her childhood, and homemade clothing.
Date:
September 3, 1987
Creator:
Renner, Steve & Barker, Billy
Object Type:
Book
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Ernest Galeassi, September 16, 1988
Interview with Army veteran Ernest Galeassi. The interview includes Galeassi's personal experiences at Hickam Field with the 324th Signal Company during the Japanese attack a Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
Date:
September 16, 1988
Creator:
Marcello, Ronald E. & Galeassi, Ernest
Object Type:
Book
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Andrew White, September 24, 1986
Interview with Andrew White, business executive and president of the local chapter of the NAACP in Sherman, Texas. The interview includes White's personal experiences about race relations and the development of African-American businesses in Sherman during the 1980s.
Date:
September 24, 1986
Creator:
Kumler, Donna & White, Andrew
Object Type:
Book
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Alexander Bate, September 19, 1986
Interview with retired schoolteacher Alexander Bate. The interview includes Bate's personal experiences about the African American business community in Sherman, Texas, and the lynching of George Hughes. Bate also talks about being an African-American educator, and local race relations in Sherman.
Date:
September 19, 1986
Creator:
Kumler, Donna & Bate, Alexander
Object Type:
Book
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Ben Bynum, September 22, 1971
Interview with Ben Bynum, a public relations consultant and a Democratic member of the Texas House of Representatives from Amarillo. Bynum shares his experiences and personal views as a member of the Regular and First Special Sessions of the Sixty-second Legislature. He also discusses revenue bills, the corporate profits tax, the Sharpstown stock-fraud scandal, legislative ethics, the "Dirty Thirty", appropriations, redistricting, and his personal legislation.
Date:
September 22, 1971
Creator:
Marcello, Ronald E. & Bynum, Ben
Object Type:
Book
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with M. L. Daman, 1973
Interview with Colonel M.L. Daman, an Army veteran and a survivor of the siege of Corregidor, concerning his experiences as a prisoner-of-war of the Japanese during World War II. Daman discusses the fall of Corregidor and his capture, Bilibid Prison in Manila (1942-1943), Davao Penal Colony (1943-1944), Bilibid Prison again (1945), the fall of Manila, and his liberation. Includes an appendix.
Date:
September 29, 1973
Creator:
Marcello, Ronald E. & Daman, M. L., 1915-
Object Type:
Book
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Leland D. Bartlett, September 13, 1972
Interview with Colonel Leland D. Bartlett, an Army WWII veteran and POW from Springfield, Massachusetts. Bartlett discusses his education, his experience as a teenager in the Pancho Villa Expedition, becoming a commissioned officer in the Army, his pre-war career, his deployment to the Philippines, the Japanese attack, the Battle of Bataan, the siege of Corregidor and the American surrender, and his internment at Cabanatuan, Tanagawa, and Zentsuji.
Date:
September 13, 1972
Creator:
Marcello, Ronald E. & Bartlett, Leland D.
Object Type:
Book
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with John Breckenridge Garrison, September 18, 1970
Interview with Brack Garrison, a Marine WWII veteran and POW from Amarillo, Texas, accompanied by Nita Boynton. Garrison details his experiences defending Guam in the Japanese invasion of December 1941, and his subsequent surrender and internment in Japanese POW camps at Zentsuji and Osaka.
Date:
September 18, 1970
Creator:
Marcello, Ronald & Garrison, John Breckenridge (Brack)
Object Type:
Book
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Nathan Donsky, September 11, 1982
Interview with Nathan Donsky, a business-owner from Dallas, Texas. Donsky discusses his family history, his upbringing, first job as a secretary, running small businesses in San Angelo and Forsan, Texas, founding Goren & Donsky's Pawn Shop, how he married his wife, expanding the business, starting Nathan's Jewelers, family happenings, company finances, and business partnerships and relations.
Date:
September 11, 1982
Creator:
Jenkins, Floyd & Donsky, Nathan
Object Type:
Book
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Manuel Guerrero, September 11, 1968
Interview with Manuel Guerrero, Governor of Guam. Guerrero discusses the Elective Governor Acts of 1968, former governor Bill Daniel, his experiences in government, the economy and agriculture of the island, and the powers of the governorship.
Date:
September 11, 1968
Creator:
Gantt, Fred & Guerrero, Manuel (Carson)
Object Type:
Book
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with William Coughlin, September 17, 1988
Interview with William Coughlin, a Army WWII veteran who was present at Pearl Harbor on December 7th, 1941, from Auburn, New York. Coughlin discusses joining the Army in 1937, transfer to Hawaii in 1940, duties as a grunt in coastal artillery on Sand Island, becoming a guard, engaging Japanese planes on the morning of December 7th, digging in for the evening, and later service. Included is a screenshot of Coughlin's online obituary.
Date:
September 17, 1988
Creator:
Marcello, Ronald E. & Coughlin, William H.
Object Type:
Book
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Mr. and Mrs. C.S. Sykes, September 27, 1971
Interview with Mr. C. S. Sykes, a US Army WWII veteran from Ardmore, Oklahoma, and his wife, from Tulsa, Oklahoma. Both were on Oahu on December 7th, 1941, and witnessed the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. They discuss the peacetime army, being stationed at Schofield Barracks, living on Kawailoa Beach, events prior to the attack, and events during the attack on Oahu.
Date:
September 27, 1971
Creator:
Marcello, Ronald E.; Sykes, C. S. & Sykes, Mrs. C. S.
Object Type:
Book
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Jack B. Scroggs, September 20, 1973
Interview with Jack Scroggs, a history professor at NTSU and former member of the Civilian Conservation Corps from Little Rock, Arkansas. Before a group of students, Scroggs discusses his time in the CCC in the 1930s, including: his family background and education; the effects of the Depression on his hometown and family; the introduction of New Deal programs; his memory of Fireside Chats; entry into the CCC and orientation; organization in the Corps and its administration by the Army; benefits of the Corps; quality of life in a CCC camp; and the projects worked. Included in appendix is Scrogg's certificate of proficiency for a CCC course in engineering.
Date:
September 20, 1973
Creator:
Marcello, Ronald E. & Scroggs, Jack B.
Object Type:
Book
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Raymond Stone, September 16, 1988
Transcript of an interview with Raymond Stone, a Navy veteran, concerning his experiences aboard the destroyer repair ship, the USS Whitney, during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
Date:
September 16, 1988
Creator:
Marcello, Ronald E. & Stone, Raymond, 1923-
Object Type:
Book
System:
The UNT Digital Library