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Oral History Interview with Norma Adams-Wade, April 6, 2012 (open access)

Oral History Interview with Norma Adams-Wade, April 6, 2012

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.
Date: April 6, 2012
Creator: Sanders, Tiffany; Lopez, Adriana; Ratnam, Cheran & Adams-Wade, Norma
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library

Oral History Interview with Marzena Ksiazkiewicz

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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.
Date: December 6, 2012
Creator: McKee, David & Kasiazkiewicz, Marzena
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library

Oral History Interview with Mervin Garver, August 6, 1999

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Interview with Mervin Garver. The interview includes Garver's personal experiences about education and childhood during the Great Depression, being a defense worker at Riverside Foundry, blackouts and air raid wardens, and President Franklin D. Roosevelt's visits to Wrightsville by train. Garver also talks about his draft classification as 4-F due to psychoneurosis, his personal feelings about being classified as 4-F, local reactions to his 4-F status, the production of hand grenade and radar cores at Riverside Foundry, the financial and patriotic incentives to increase war production, the purchase of war bonds and stamps, employment of women and wartime shortages, rationing of food and gasoline, the "Victory Bus," effects of WW II on his personal finances and on the postwar lives of Wrightsville's citizens, the transition from wartime to peacetime production at Riverside Foundry, and his memories of post-World War II Memorial Day celebrations.
Date: August 6, 1999
Creator: Marcello, Ronald E. & Garver, Mervin
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

Oral History Interview with Joseph Hazen, April 19, 2013

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Interview with Joseph Hazen, Marine veteran and Air America fixed-wing pilot, for the Air America Oral History Project. The interview includes Hazen's personal experiences at Navy flight training, peace-time Marine Corps, and flying for Air America. Hazen talks about interactions with the "Customer," also known as CIA case officers, his interaction with the Hmong, various missions, his transfer to Southern Air Transport, rumors about Air America, and his thoughts on U.S. involvement in Southeast Asia. The interview includes an appendix with photographs.
Date: May 6, 2013
Creator: Ferguson, J. Michael & Hazen, Joseph
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library

Oral History Interview with Robert W. Wilson, June 6, 2001

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Interview with airline pilot and Army Air Forces veteran Robert W. Wilson. The interview includes Wilson's personal experiences about being B-25 pilot in the Pacific Theater during World War II, basic training, college preparatory courses, flight training, and various missions. Wilson talks about his pre-war job experiences, flying conditions over the Owen Stanley Mountains, Operation OBOE, leave time in Sydney, Australia, the move to Palawan, Philippines, missions to French Indo-China, attitudes and feelings towards the deaths of comrades, and postwar adjustments. The interview includes an appendix with supplementary documents.
Date: June 6, 2001
Creator: Marcello, Ronald E. & Wilson, Robert W.
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library

Oral History Interview with Cece Cox, November 6, 2009

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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.
Date: November 6, 2009
Creator: Wisely, Karen & Cox, Cece
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library

Oral History Interview with James Riley Chennault, August 6, 2003

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Interview with Army veteran James Riley Chennault. The interview includes Chennault's personal experiences about the Southwest Pacific Theater during World War II, childhood in Mississippi, moving to Texas in 1939, joining the 112th Cavalry, training, combat, and the Battle of Driniumor River. Chennault also talks about the mobilization of the Texas National Guard, Louisiana Maneuvers as part of the 3rd Army, rotation to the states, his assignment to a pack mule outfit, his discharge from the Army, and the daily routine of life in the horse cavalry. The interview includes an appendix with photographs.
Date: August 6, 2003
Creator: Johnston, Glenn T. & Chennault, James Riley
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library

Oral History Interview with Herb Elfering, December 6, 2001

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Interview with electrical engineer and Army veteran Herb Elfering, The interview includes Elfering's personal experiences with a searchlight/radar battery, 251st Coast Artillery Regiment, at camp Malekole during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. Elfering also gives brief descriptions of his later experiences at Bougainville and Luzon.
Date: December 6, 2001
Creator: Alexander, William J. & Elfering, Herb
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library

Oral History Interview with Elijah Collins, Jr., December 6, 2001

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Interview with Navy veteran Elijah Collins Jr. The interview includes Collins' personal experiences while aboard the destroyer USS Blue during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. Collins also talks about the Battle of Savo Island and the sinking of the Blue.
Date: December 6, 2001
Creator: Alexander, William J. & Collins, Elijah, Jr.
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Ed Carseth, August 6, 2003 transcript

Oral History Interview with Ed Carseth, August 6, 2003

Interview with Ed Carseth, a pilot during World War II. He discusses an early interest in aviation and earned his pilot's license through the Civilian Pilot Training program. He spent a year as an instructor before joining the Air Transport Command. Through 1944 he delivered aircraft to Australia before being assigned to Myitkyina, Burma. He speaks of living conditions at Myitkyina. He flew materials over the Himalaya Mountains (the Hump) from Burma to Kunming, China. Carseth relates anectdotes about General Claire Chennault, Lord Louis Mountbatten, and a squadron mate who kept a baboon.
Date: August 6, 2003
Creator: Metzler, Ed & Carseth, Ed
Object Type: Sound
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Jessie Clark, June 6, 2002 transcript

Oral History Interview with Jessie Clark, June 6, 2002

Interview with Jessie Clark regarding her experiences during World War II. She discusses having to adjust to a lifestyle of rationing for food products and shoes as well as blackouts and scrap metal drives. Her husband worked for the Southern Pacific Railroad and was often absent while she stayed home to raise their children in Houston. She discusses the scarcity of toys during Christmas and hosiery.
Date: June 6, 2002
Creator: Loyd, Ms. & Clark, Jessie
Object Type: Sound
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with John A. Murphy, December 6, 1974 (open access)

Oral History Interview with John A. Murphy, December 6, 1974

Interview with John Murphy, a Navy veteran, concerning his experiences aboard the repair ship USS Vestal during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
Date: December 6, 1974
Creator: Marcello, Ronald E. & Murphy, John A., 1921-
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Jack Blanton, December 6, 1972 (open access)

Oral History Interview with Jack Blanton, December 6, 1972

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.
Date: December 6, 1972
Creator: Marcello, Ronald E. & Blanton, C. F. (Jack)
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Fred J. Agnich, January 6, 1972 (open access)

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 Merle Newbauer, December 6, 1976 (open access)

Oral History Interview with Merle Newbauer, December 6, 1976

Interview with Navy veteran Merle Newbauer. The interview includes Newbauer's personal experiences while aboard the battleship USS Maryland during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
Date: December 6, 1976
Creator: Marcello, Ronald E. & Newbauer, Merle
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with L. B. Luckenbach, December 6, 1978 (open access)

Oral History Interview with L. B. Luckenbach, December 6, 1978

Interview with Navy veteran L. B. Luckenbach. The interview includes Luckenbach's personal experiences while aboard the battleship USS California during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
Date: December 6, 1978
Creator: Marcello, Ronald E. & Luckenbach, L. B.
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library

Oral History Interview with Gary Bruce, August 6, 2013

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Interview with Gary Bruce, a resident of Pilot Point, Texas. Bruce recounts his childhood and growing up in a poor community, primary school, his parents, high school, racism, the JFK and MLK assassinations, the Texas State Fair, Juneteenth, jobs worked, his first marriage, children, his second wife, family history in north Texas, changes in Denton and Pilot Point over the years, segregation, and the Zimmerman trial. In appendix are a series of family photos.
Date: August 6, 2013
Creator: Stallings, Chelsea & Bruce, Gary
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Steele M. McDonald, January 6, 1977 transcript

Oral History Interview with Steele M. McDonald, January 6, 1977

Interview with Steele M. McDonald, a resident of Baytown, Texas since approximately 1920. Topics include early Baytown, TX history through consolidation to the present.
Date: January 6, 1977
Creator: Tidmon, Grace & McDonald, Steel M.
Object Type: Sound
System: The Portal to Texas History

Oral History Interview with Alan A. Fouts, December 6, 2001

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Interview with Navy veteran Alan A. Fouts. The interview includes Fouts' personal experiences while assigned to the Submarine Base during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, and his subsequent service aboard the submarine USS Pogy in the Pacific Theater during World War II.
Date: December 6, 2001
Creator: Alexander, William J. & Fouts, Alan A., 1920-
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with O. R. Sparkman, May 6, 1971 (open access)

Oral History Interview with O. R. Sparkman, May 6, 1971

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.
Date: May 6, 1971
Creator: Marcello, Ronald E. & Sparkman, O. R.
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Senator Betty Andujar, September 6, 1979 (open access)

Oral History Interview with Senator Betty Andujar, September 6, 1979

Interview with Senator Betty Andujar, a Republican Texas state legislator from Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. Andujar discusses her experiences attending the 66th Legislative Session of the Texas Senate, including her impressions of the Republican Party in Texas, the demographics of the district she represents, the Equal Rights Amendment, abortion rights, the State Affairs committee, taxes, and legal cases.
Date: September 6, 1979
Creator: Marcello, Ronald E. & Andujar, Betty, 1912-
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Marvin V. Wingrove, December 6, 1978 (open access)

Oral History Interview with Marvin V. Wingrove, December 6, 1978

Interview with Marvin V. Wingrove, a United States Army veteran from Tucumcari, New Mexico. Wingrove recollects his experiences with the 17th Air Base Squadron stationed at Hickam Field during the Japanese attack there and on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
Date: December 6, 1978
Creator: Marcello, Ronald E. & Wingrove, Marvin V.
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Raymond S. Cannon, June 6, 1980 (open access)

Oral History Interview with Raymond S. Cannon, June 6, 1980

Interview with Navy veteran Raymond S. Cannon. The interview includes Myers' personal experiences while aboard the battleship USS Nevada during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
Date: June 6, 1980
Creator: Marcello, Ronald E. & Cannon, Raymond S.
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library