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Oral History Interview with Colonel John. E. Olson, March 15, 1998

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Interview with Colonel John E. Olson, a Army WWII veteran and POW from Leavenworth, Kansas. Olson discusses his family background, commissioning in the Army from West Point, assignment to the Philippines in 1939 as an infantry officer, the start of the war, withdrawal to Bataan and the ensuing battle and surrender, the Bataan Death March, internment at Cabanatuan, transfer to Osaka, experiences there in internment at a factory labor camp, liberation, organizing the evacuation of POWs, returning to the US, and his postwar career.
Date: March 15, 1998
Creator: Alexander, Bill & Olson, John E.
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library

Oral History Interview with John B. Brush, February 3, 1998

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Interview with John Brush, a businessman and WWII POW from White Plains, New York. Brush discusses his family history, school, work for Procter & Gamble Company, marriage, moving to Manila in 1941, the lead up to war, the Japanese invasion of the Philippines, internment by the Japanese army at Santo Tomas Prison Camp, survival with his family, censorship and propaganda, shanties and villages, fake identities to help US servicemen survive, move to Los Baños camp, liberation, and return to the US.
Date: February 3, 1998
Creator: Alexander, William J. & Brush, John B.
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library

Oral History Interview with John J. Clemens, May 13, 2003

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Interview with John J. Clemens. The interview includes Clemens' personal experiences about childhood and early adulthood in Houston, Texas, World War II-era service in the U.S. Navy, serving aboard USS Wren in the Pacific Theater, and piloting a ship into Tokyo Bay immediately following the Japanese surrender. Clemens speaks about convoy missions across the Atlantic Ocean, the January 4, 1944 sinking of the USS Turner while moored in New York Harbor and the court of inquiry regarding the sinking, actions in the Aleutian Islands, Attu, Okinawa, and Philippine campaigns and anti-kamikaze warfare while aboard the USS Wren, and the effects that Allied bombing had on Tokyo.
Date: May 13, 2003
Creator: Alexander, William J. & Clemens, John J., 1921-
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library

Oral History Interview with Robert Hoe, September 20, 2003

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Interview with Robert Hoe, a Navy WWII veteran of the China-Burma-India theater from Le Roy, New York. Hoe discusses growing up, the reaction to Pearl Harbor, attending college, enlisting in the Navy, training and becoming an officer, joining the Navy Scouts and Raiders, deployment to China and assignment to the Sino-American Cooperative Organization, supplying their forces, operations with guerilla fighters against the Japanese occupation, intelligence gathering, his reaction to the atomic bomb, the end of the war, service in China and discharge, and life as a civilian.
Date: September 20, 2003
Creator: Alexander, William J. & Hoe, Robert
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library

Oral History Interview with Robert Hutchins Roser, January 7, 1995

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Interview with 1st Lieutenant Robert Roser, an Army veteran, concerning his experiences with the 29th Division during the invasion of Normandy in World War II.
Date: January 6, 1995
Creator: Alexander, William J. & Roser, Robert Hutchins
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library

Oral History Interview with Earl E. Ambrose, October 6, 2007

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Interview with Earl E. Ambrose, Korean War veteran, as part of the Tarrant County War Veterans Oral History Project. The interview includes Ambrose's personal experiences of childhood, basic training, volunteering for service in Korea, and attending Arlington State College using GI Bill benefits. Additionally, Ambrose discusses family experiences in military service, the decision to join the Marines, assignments to Quantico and Yorktown, Virginia, his brief combat experience and assignment to the Main Line of Resistance near the Imjin River, his discharge from the Marines, and his career with Bell Helicopter.
Date: October 6, 2007
Creator: Ball, Gregory & Ambrose, Earl E.
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library

590 Madison Avenue

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The view is of the street level facade and includes the glassed atrium public space.
Date: 1983
Creator: Barnes, Edward Larrabee
Object Type: Physical Object
System: The UNT Digital Library

590 Madison Avenue

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The view is of the sidewalk adjoining the building.
Date: 1983
Creator: Barnes, Edward Larrabee
Object Type: Physical Object
System: The UNT Digital Library

Oral History Interview with Benjamin B. Luong, March 15, 2021

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Interview with Benjamin Bình-Thiên Phạm Lương, a chef from Dallas, Texas who studied at the Culinary Institute of America. Benjamin discusses the background of his Vietnamese parents, the Vietnam War, politics, his father's education in the United States, and his own personal journey to becoming a chef.
Date: March 15, 2021
Creator: Bridges-Jacobsen, Lauren & Luong, Benjamin Bình-Thiên Phạm
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library

Oral History Interview with Edmund T. Thomassen, May 4, 1993

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Transcript of an interview with Commander Edmund Thomassen, a Navy veteran, concerning his experiences as a naval officer in the Pacific Theater during World War II. Thomassen discusses the New York State Merchant Marine Academy in 1941, his assignment to the USS Sheridan (APA 51), Tarawa landing, Marshall Island landings, Saipan landing, his assignment to Newport, Rhode Island, his assignment to the USS Dutchess for amphibious landings, and his Korean War experiences.
Date: May 4, 1993
Creator: Byrd, R. W. (Richard W.) & Thomassen, Edmund T., 1924-
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library

Oral History Interview with Mary Franklin, October 18, 2013

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Interview with Mary Franklin, an activist in the Dallas LGBT community from Riverhead, New York. Franklin discusses her family background, the neighborhood she grew up in in, dyslexia and struggles in school, her sexuality and coming out, the LGBT scene on Long Island, "gay" as a term, her first girlfriend, Anita Bryant, applying for a marriage license on National Coming Out Day, feminism and activism, moving to Dallas, the decriminalization of homosexuality in Texas, the HIV-AIDS epidemic, threats, involvement with the Unitarian Church, working at the Food Pantry, and changes in societal attitudes towards LGBT.
Date: October 18, 2013
Creator: Castillo, Vogel Vladimir & Franklin, Mary
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

Third Reich Finale: as Witnessed by John L. Hancock, 259th Field Artillery Battalion

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Army WWII veteran John L. Hancock's autobiographical accounts of his service with the 259th Field Artillery Battalion in the final months of the European Theater. The book features five separate accounts on the Battle of the Bulge, Remagen, liberating Buchenwald, occupation duty in Germany, and returning to the US.
Date: August 11, 2003
Creator: Hancock, John L.
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library

Oral History Interview with Wiliam Wayne Kitts, May 13, 2009

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Transcript of an interview with William Wayne Kitts, U.S. Navy anti-submarine warfare veteran of World War II. Kitts shares concerning his childhood and family history in Sulphur Springs, Texas; college at the University of Texas during the Depression; musical background; enlistment in the U.S. Navy shortly after the attack at Pearl Harbor; midshipman school in New York City and selection for sonar school in Key West, Florida; assignment to USS Mason, the first ship in the navy with an integrated crew; post-war duty as commanding officer of USS Hollis and USS Tollberg; role in establishing Naval Reserve Training Center in Lubbock, Texas; reactivation to active duty during Korean War; and his post-military career at Vought Aeronautics.
Date: May 13, 2009
Creator: Hegi, Benjamin & Kitts, William Wayne, 1921-
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library

Radio City Music Hall at Rockefeller Center

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The view is of the corner of the Radio City Music Hall with a large banner advertising the Lion King.
Date: 1931/1940
Creator: Hood, Raymond M. & Harrison, Wallace Kirkman
Object Type: Physical Object
System: The UNT Digital Library

Radio City Music Hall at Rockefeller Center

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The view is of the corner of the theater building with a partial view of a banner advertising the Lion King. Three roundels can be seen on the side of the building.
Date: 1931/1940
Creator: Hood, Raymond M. & Harrison, Wallace Kirkman
Object Type: Physical Object
System: The UNT Digital Library

Rockefeller Center

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The view is into the plaza from an angled view. The green rooftops are visible.
Date: 1931/1940
Creator: Hood, Raymond M. & Harrison, Wallace Kirkman
Object Type: Physical Object
System: The UNT Digital Library

Rockefeller Center

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The door sculpted in relief depicts Paris and New York above the figures of Poetry, Beauty and Elegance.
Date: 1931/1940
Creator: Hood, Raymond M. & Harrison, Wallace Kirkman
Object Type: Physical Object
System: The UNT Digital Library

Rockefeller Center

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Date: 1931/1940
Creator: Hood, Raymond M. & Harrison, Wallace Kirkman
Object Type: Physical Object
System: The UNT Digital Library

Rockefeller Center

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The view is of a door with ten incised images, five on each side, depicting various industries and above the door an elaborate relief carving.
Date: 1931/1940
Creator: Hood, Raymond M. & Harrison, Wallace Kirkman
Object Type: Physical Object
System: The UNT Digital Library

Rockefeller Center

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The view shows the sunken plaza area with the facade of a building and the decorative details at the top of the building.
Date: 1931/1940
Creator: Hood, Raymond M. & Harrison, Wallace Kirkman
Object Type: Physical Object
System: The UNT Digital Library

Rockefeller Center

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The view is of the exterior of a building and its decoration at the top edge.
Date: 1931/1940
Creator: Hood, Raymond M. & Harrison, Wallace Kirkman
Object Type: Physical Object
System: The UNT Digital Library

Rockefeller Center

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A facade is depicted with the plaza and the panels of Art Deco designs above an entryway.
Date: 1931/1940
Creator: Hood, Raymond M. & Harrison, Wallace Kirkman
Object Type: Physical Object
System: The UNT Digital Library

Rockefeller Center, RCA Building, Wall Relief, Progress

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A horse, Pegasus, an eagle and a woman are depicted in this wall decoration above one of the doors.
Date: 1933
Creator: Hood, Raymond M. & Harrison, Wallace Kirkman
Object Type: Physical Object
System: The UNT Digital Library