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Oral History Interview with Willadene Hines, February 11, 1976 transcript

Oral History Interview with Willadene Hines, February 11, 1976

Interview with Willadene Hines, a resident of Baytown, Texas since approximately 1920. Topics include her life growing up in Baytown.
Date: February 11, 1976
Creator: Peace, William K. & Hines, Willadene
Object Type: Sound
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Julia Lancaster Pierson, March 11, 1976 transcript

Oral History Interview with Julia Lancaster Pierson, March 11, 1976

Interview with Julia Lancaster Pierson, a resident of Baytown, Texas since approximately 1920. Topics include the history of Baytown.
Date: March 11, 1976
Creator: McNeil, William J. & Pierson, Julia Lancaster
Object Type: Sound
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with W. Orville Tidmon, August 11, 1976 transcript

Oral History Interview with W. Orville Tidmon, August 11, 1976

Interview with W. Orville Tidmon, a resident of Baytown, Texas since approximately 1920. Topics include the history of Baytown, TX, including local politics and government.
Date: August 11, 1976
Creator: Roberts, Linda & Tidmon, W. Orville
Object Type: Sound
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Pat Gulley, May 11, 1988 (open access)

Oral History Interview with Pat Gulley, May 11, 1988

Interview with Pat Gulley, a community activist and a member of the Denton Christian Women's Interracial Fellowship. Gulley explains her involvement with the group, the history of race relations in Denton, the desegregation of public facilities and schools, early group meetings, opposition to the Fellowship, and its contributions.
Date: May 11, 1988
Creator: Lohr, Mary & Gulley, Pat
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Nathan Donsky, September 11, 1982 (open access)

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 Arthur and Louise Caillet Dieterich, August 11, 1985 (open access)

Oral History Interview with Arthur and Louise Caillet Dieterich, August 11, 1985

Interview with Arthur and Louise Caillet Dieterich, owners and operators of Hermosa Farms, Dallas, Texas. The interview includes the Dieterich's personal experiences about farming in Dallas, education, and establishing Hermosa Farms. The Dieterich's talk about their family backgrounds, Arthur's employment as operator of dairy cooperative with his brother in El Paso, Texas, the effect of the Great Depression on Dallas dairy businesses, milk processing and delivery operations, a typical day on a dairy farm, their change from retail to wholesale business, developing dairy herd, their cooperation with agricultural experiment stations, personnel practices, and civic and trade association activities. The interview includes an appendix with a family history written by Louise Caillet Dieterich.
Date: August 11, 1985
Creator: Jenkins, Floyd & Dieterich, Arthur
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with William J. Stewart, June 11, 1981 (open access)

Oral History Interview with William J. Stewart, June 11, 1981

Interview with William J. Stewart, a United States Navy veteran from Cherryvale, Kansas. Stewart discusses his experiences as a prisoner-of-war of the Japanese during World War II after his cruiser, the USS Houston, was sunk off the coast of Java in 1942.
Date: July 11, 1981
Creator: Marcello, Ronald E. & Stewart, William J.
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Donald C. Brain, March 11, 1981 (open access)

Oral History Interview with Donald C. Brain, March 11, 1981

Interview with Donald C. Brain, a United States Navy veteran from Long Beach, California. Brain discusses his experiences as a prisoner-of-war of the Japanese during World War II after his cruiser, the USS Houston, was sunk off the coast of Java in 1942.
Date: March 11, 1981
Creator: Marcello, Ronald E. & Brain, Donald C.
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with O. H. "Ike" Harris, August 11, 1975 (open access)

Oral History Interview with O. H. "Ike" Harris, August 11, 1975

Interview with O. H. "Ike" Harris, an attorney and a Republican member of the Texas Senate from Dallas, concerning his experiences and personal views as a member of the Sixty-fourth Legislature. Harris discusses public school financing, public utilities legislation, constitutional revision, and personal legislation.
Date: August 11, 1975
Creator: Marcello, Ronald E. & Harris, Ike, 1932-
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Joel K. Walker, November 11, 1971 (open access)

Oral History Interview with Joel K. Walker, November 11, 1971

Interview with Joel Walker, an employee of the Home Owners' Loan Association from Marietta, Oklahoma. Walker worked for the HOLA in Dallas during the Great Depression; he discusses working at a bank in Roswell, New Mexico, unemployment, hiring with HOLA in Dallas, how the Association operated, loan terms, mortgages, and foreclosures.
Date: November 11, 1971
Creator: Marcello, Ronald E. & Walker, Joel K.
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library

Oral History Interview with Albert Boggs, October 11, 1993

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Interview with Albert Boggs, a former member of the Civilian Conservation Corps from Mixon, Oklahoma. Boggs discusses his family life, farming, struggles during the Depression, joining the CCC, his first assignment to a camp at Jacksonville, TX, education, camp life and organization, work, fights in camp, transfer to a camp in Waxahachie, being an assistant leader, building bridges, the kinds of people who worked the camp, and some general reflections. In appendix are Boggs' discharge papers and a newsletter commemorating CCC veterans.
Date: October 11, 1993
Creator: Hudson, Linda & Boggs, Albert
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library

Oral History Interview with Garfield Thompson, October 11, 1993

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Interview with Garfield Thompson, a member of the Civilian Conservation Corps from Fort Worth, Texas. Thompson discusses his family background and education, the effects of the Great Depression, Republicans, the New Deal, joining the CCC and assignment to Company 812 in Cache, Oklahoma, the layout of the camp, projects worked, routine, recreation and leave, discharge, and reflections on the program.
Date: October 11, 1993
Creator: Calame, Michelle & Thompson, Garfield
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library

Oral History Interview with Marvin Dunn, October 11, 2007

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Interview with Korean War veteran Marvin Dunn as part of the Tarrant County War Veterans Oral History Project. The interview includes Dunn's personal experiences about boot camp and training, combat in Korea, combat at Hill 749 and Hill 884, and of being a teacher, principal, and administrator in Dallas ISD. Additionally, Dunn discusses his decision to drop out of college to join the U.S. Marine Corps, his assignment to combat unit, the battlefield injury at "the Punchbowl," that resulted in his leg amputation, the following recuperation, his opinions regarding enemy soldiers and what the U.S. accomplished in the war, civilian opinions of the war, struggling with post-traumatic stress disorder, returning to college and graduate school, and his involvement with Korean War Veterans Organization. The interview also includes an appendix with photographs.
Date: October 11, 2007
Creator: Montandon, Josh & Dunn, Marvin
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library