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.

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.

Interview with Joe Frank Ferguson, musician and vocalist, concerning his experiences as a musician/vocalist with Bob Will's "Texas playboys" and the "Light Crust Doughboys" western swing bands, 1936-42; comments about Bob Willis and band members Marvin Montgomery, Kenneth Pitts, Al Stricklin, "Smokey" Dacus, "Knocky" Parker, Leon McAuliffe, Eldon Shamblin; forming his own groups and playing the Fort Worth, Texas, night club circuit, 1950-70; comments about western swing, big band, and pop music.

Interview with Jay Titus, an Army Air Forces veteran (457th Squadron, 330th Bomb Group, 20th Air Force), concerning his experiences as a B-29 bombardier in the Pacific Theater during World War II. Bombing missions from Guam to Japan in 1945; Japanese fighter and flak opposition; fire bombing raids. Appendix includes a photocopy of the "350th Bomb Group Digest: a summary of combat activities from April 12 to Sept. 2 1945" [21 leaves]

Interview with Commander Hal Lamar, a Navy veteran, concerning his experiences while serving as flag lieutenant and aide to Admiral Chester W. Nimitz during World War II. Lamar discusses Nimitz's personal and professional routines; comments about Admirals William ("Bull") Halsey and Raymond Spruance; the Roosevelt-Nimitz-MacArthur conference at Pearl Harbor from July to August of 1944; and the transfer of CINCPAC from Pearl Harbor to Guam.

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.

Interview with Olen Bates concerning his experiences before, during, and after his employment in the Civilian Conservation Corps during the Great Depression. Bates worked at a camp in Carlsbad, New Mexico.

Interview with Ken Duncan concerning his experiences during and after his employment in the Civilian Conservation Corps during the Great Depression. Duncan worked at camps in Redvale, Colorado (Company 3844) and Paradox Valley, Colorado.

Interview with Acting Sergeant David W. Peake, Sr., regarding his memories of the invasion of Iwo Jima and experiences as a member of the 3st Replacement Battalion, 27th Regiment, 5th Marine Division during the invasion and occupation of Japan.

Interview with Olen Bates about his experiences while employed by the Civilian Conservation Corps during the Great Depression. Bates discusses his childhood in Oklahoma, joining the CCC, assignment to a camp in Carlsbad, New Mexico, and describes his life in the camp.

Transcript of an interview with Dennie Wolf, co-author of chapters on postpartum recovery in the 1979 book Ourselves and Our Children and the 1984 version Our Bodies Ourselves, both publications of the Boston Women’s Health Collective. This interview includes discussion of postpartum depression, the women’s health movement, second wave feminism, and development psychology. The interview is part of the postpartum depression project.

Audio log for a recording of an interview with Gregory Robinson, son of former Braniff CFO, Neal Robinson, conducted for the Flying Voices oral history project. In the interview Robinson shares memories of his childhood and father working for Braniff, reflections on Harding Lawrence and how he ran the company, events leading to and after bankruptcy, comments on competitors and deregulation, and Braniff’s impact on the airline industry as a whole.

Transcript of an interview with Lina Mae Maddox, telephone operator and EEOC member and activist, concerning her childhood as a white Mississippi sharecropper; experiences of discrimination against poor and women; move to Dallas for war work; experiences of segregation; sympathizing with African Americans' experiences with discrimination; public reaction to the Civil Rights Act; EEOC and union activism; civil rights improvements. Appendix includes excerpts from Maddox's autobiography and various photos.

Transcript of an interview with Kamran Khadivar, a civil/structural engineer, businessman, and Iranian-born immigrant to Plano, Texas. Khadivar discusses his childhood in Shiraz, Iran; coming to America at fourteen by himself; living with extended family in Texas; adjusting to America and learning English; parents’ escape from Iran during the Iranian Revolution; education in America; work experience; continuing Iranian traditions in own family; opportunities provided in America.

Transcript of an interview with Charles Ray Stokes, former Director of Development and Curator of Special Collections for Texas College of Osteopathic Medicine. Stokes discusses his professional background and the creation of TCOM. This interview was conducted for Richard Rafe's dissertation "The Historical Development of Texas College of Osteopathic Medicine as a State Medical School, 1960-1975."

Transcript of an interview with Harryette Ehrhardt, an educator, politician, and LGBT rights advocate. Ehrhardt shares concerning her graduate school experience; gay community; memories of Donald Baker; discrimination against gay men in the public school system; struggle for LGBT civil rights; childhood and young adult years; family history; work within the gay community; Dallas Women's Political Caucus; activism and advancement of the Dallas LGBT community.

Transcript of an interview with William Eaton, an Army Air Forces veteran, concerning his experiences with the 72nd Bomb Squadron, 5th Bomb Group, at Hickam Field during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. Includes facsimiles of discharge letter, biography, and a letter to Dr. Robert Marcello.

Transcript of an interview with John Ruddick, a Navy veteran, concerning his experiences while aboard the destroyer USS Melvin during World War II in the Pacific Theater. Ruddick discusses the Marianas invasion, the Carolines invasion, the Battle of Leyte Gulf, the Battle of Surigao Strait, Iwo Jima, Okinawa, Kurile operations, and the occupation of Japan.

Transcript of an interview with Lucille Nix, a schoolteacher, concerning her experiences teaching at Frederick Douglass Colored School in Denton, Texas (1949-1969). Nix discusses her relationship with students, church activities, and Principal Fred Moore.

Interview with Acting Sergeant David W. Peake, Sr., a Marine Corps veteran, concerning his experiences in the Pacific Theater during World War II as a member of the 5th Marine Division. Peake discusses Iwo Jima and his occupation duty in postwar Japan. Appendix includes a photocopy of a "Veteran's Questionnaire" from the Admiral Nimitz Museum and Historical Center, filled-out by David W. Peake, Sr. [3 pages]

Interview with Captain George Duncan, a Navy veteran, concerning his experiences in the Pacific Theater during World War II. Duncan discusses his pilot training at Pensacola Naval Air Station in 1941, his assignment to Air Group 9 on the carrier Essex, the Hellcat fighter, the sinking of Fubuki-class destroyer in June of 1944 off of Pagan Island, the Marianas Campaign in 1944, the "Great Marianas Turkey Shoot," the Philippines Campaign and the attack on the Japanese battleship Musashi, and his postwar naval career.

Interviews with Max Glauben, a Holocaust survivor from Warsaw. Glauben discusses his family origins, growing up with Sephardic Hebrew, education, the invasion of Poland, losing the family business, the move to the ghetto and life there, people's different reactions to oppression, ventures outside the ghetto, escalating extermination by the Germans, Warsaw Uprising, transfer to KL Lublin, the organization of the camp, transfers to and labor at Wieliczka, Mielec, Budzyn and Flossenburg, illness, sabotage, daily routine in the camps, the approach of the front, being on a train strafed by Allied planes and wounded, escape, rescue by American forces, moving to the United States, and his thoughts on faith.

Interview with Lorra Golden, a Army Iraq War veteran from Gainesville, Texas. Golden discusses her family background, life before the military, joining the Army, training, struggles as an older enlistee and a lesbian in the service, deployment to Camp Taji, driving convoys, seeing combat, having PTSD, veterans, the chain of command, women in combat and female integration, and the repeal of Don't Ask, Don't Tell. In appendix is a chronology of Golden's service, and two photos of newspaper clippings of the construction of walls around Sadr City, Baghdad.

Interview with Cmdr. Alex Vraciu, a Navy WWII veteran and Navy Cross recipient from East Chicago, Indiana. Vraciu discusses his family and educational background, naval flight training, Edward "Butch" O'Hare, the F6F Hellcat, various combat operations throughout the Pacific, his actions at the "Marianas Turkey Shoot," being awarded the Navy Cross and time stateside, and returning to combat. In appendix is an autobiographical sketch by Vraciu, including a picture of him and his Hellcat with visible victory markings on the fuselage.