Interview with Mary Louise Mujica regarding her experiences growing up in Basque Country, speaking the Basque language and learning English, working at Bastanchury Ranch and the conditions there, Basque traditions such as dances, and her life and family in America.

Interview with Judge Sarah T. Hughes, a former state legislator, state district judge, and federal district judge from Dallas, Texas. In the interview, Hughes discusses her experiences during her time as a member of the Texas House of Representatives. She covers a few of the many milestones of her political career, including her appointment as the state district judge by Governor James Allred, her unsuccessful congressional campaign against Adlai Stevenson in 1956, and her nomination for Vice President in 1952. Hughes comments on women's rights the Kennedy-Johnson campaign in 1960, the Kennedy assassination, and her personal thoughts and experiences concerning women's rights.

Interview with William J. Lawson, a former executive assistant to Governor W. Lee O'Daniel, who was the former Secretary of State for Texas. In the interview, Mr. Lawson, who is from Austin, Texas, discusses his appointment as executive assistant to O'Daniel in 1941. He also describes his role and associations with the administration at the time, as well as his impressions of O'Daniel. Mr. Lawson expresses his personal views and experiences when it comes to relations between O'Daniel and the Legislature, the Democratic State Executive Committee, patronage, the Senate, and also when O'Daniel was appointed Secretary of State.

Interview with Fred H. Minor, an attorney, a Democrat, and a former Speaker of the Texas House of Representatives. He discusses his experiences while serving in the Texas Legislature during the 1930s, comments upon Governors Pat Neff, Dan Moody, and Miriam and James Ferguson, and his talks about his term as speaker of the Texas House of Representatives.

Interview with Bertha Rosenzweig, co-founder of Tex-Glass, Inc. in Decatur, Texas. The interview includes Rosenzweig's personal experiences about her education in New York, and having a teaching career. Rosenzweig talks about her family background, her knowledge of her husband's family background and his life in Europe during the Hitler era, his technical training, work in glass factories, starting his own glass factory in Vienna, fleeing Nazis and migrating to Greece, the Jewish underground in Central Europe, fleeing to Egypt, Palestine, and his migration to the U.S. Additionally, Rosenzweig talks about their meeting and marriage, work in Canada and Mexico, opening a glass factory in Athens, Texas, moving to Decatur, employee relations, products and the production process, the distribution system, financing methods, her managing the business, sale of the business, and reparations from the Austrian government.

Interview with Bertha (Mrs. Herman) Rosenzweig concerning her experiences as co-founder (with her husband, Herman, deceased) of Tex Glass, Inc. in Decatur, Texas. Rosenzweig discusses her family background, her education in Brooklyn, N.Y., and her teaching career. She also speaks of her husband's family background and his life in Europe during the Hitler era, her husband's technical training and his work in glass factories, starting his own glass factory in Vienna, fleeing the Nazis and migrating to Greece, working for the underground getting Jews out of Central Europe, fleeing to Egypt and Palestine, and migrating to the United States. Rosenzweig also talks of meeting her husband and their marriage, working in Canada and Mexico, opening a glass factory in Athens, Texas, their move to Decatur, as well as their employee relations, products and the production process, the distribution system, financing methods, her managing the business, the sale of the business, and reparations from the Austrian government.

Interview with Nolan Albarado, a Army WWII veteran from Assumption Parish, Louisiana. Albarado discusses his experiences at Schofield Barracks, Oahu during the Japanese attack on December 7th, 1941, as well as his entry into the Army and training, assignment to Schofield Barracks, life and operations there, liberty, the stockade, and later service in the war.

Interview with Navy veteran James F. Anderson. The interview includes Anderson's personal experiences while aboard the hospital ship USS Solace during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.

Interview with Roy Armstrong, an Army veteran (2nd Battalion, 131st Field Artillery, Texas National Guard) and a member of the "Lost Battalion," concerning his experiences as a prisoner-of-war of the Japanese during World War II. Armstrong discusses the fall of Java and his capture, Bicycle Camp in Batavia (1942), Changi Prison Camp in Singapore (1942), building the Burma-Thailand Death Railway (1942-1944), Tamarkan and Kanchanaburi, Thailand (1943), Saigon and Da Lat, French Indo-China (1944-1945), American air raids, and his liberation.

Interview with George Carter, U.S. Navy WWII veteran, concerning his experiences aboard the destroyer USS Mugford during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.

Interview with Elmo Champion, a United States Army veteran from Mineola, Texas. Champion describes his recollections as a member of the 9th Field Artillery, 25th Infantry Division stationed at Schofield Barracks during the Japanese attack there and on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.

Interview with Navy veteran M. J. Cotter. The interview includes Anderson's personal experiences while aboard the battleship USS Maryland during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.

Interview with Army Air Corps veteran Van B. Cross. The interview includes Cross' personal experiences at Hickam Field with the 14th Bombardment Squadron during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.

Interview with William Crow, U.S. Navy veteran, concerning his experiences at the Submarine Base during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.

Interview with Navy veteran William W. Fomby. The interview includes Fomby's personal experiences while aboard the battleship USS Oklahoma during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.

Interview with Russell J. Hampson, an Army WWII veteran from West Orange, New Jersey. Hampson discusses his experience during the attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7th, 1941, including joining the Army in 1940, being stationed at Schofield Barracks, the events of the attack, and operations on Oahu afterward.

Transcript of an interview with Woodrow Hill, a Navy veteran, concerning his experiences aboard the battleship USS Nevada during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.

Interview with Edward Jones, a survivor of the 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor and former member of the Civilian Conservation Corps from New Orleans, Louisiana, regarding his experiences and memories of participating in the CCC during the Great Depression.

Interview with Representative James Kaster, a Democratic Texas state legislator from El Paso, Texas. Kaster discusses his experiences during the regular session of the 63rd Legislature, including: the large influx of freshman representatives in the legislature; reform legislation; the legislative process; Speaker Price Daniel's reform package; the coming speaker race; anti-lobby legislation; the Ethics Commission and ethics legislation; and his opinion of DeWitt Hale.

Interview with Albert E. Kennedy, a United States Navy veteran from East Prairie, Missouri, regarding his experiences and memories as a prisoner-of-war of the Japanese after surviving the wreck of the USS Houston during World War II.

Interview with Albert Kennedy, a businessman, a Navy veteran and a survivor of the sinking of the USS Houston, concerning his experiences as a prisoner-of-war of the Japanese during World War II. Kennedy talks about the sinking of the Houston (1942), his capture and imprisonment at Serang, Java, Bicycle Camp in Batavia (1942), Changi Prison Camp in Singapore (1942), building the Burma-Thailand Death Railway (1942-1944), Kanchanaburi, Thailand (1944), Saigon, French Indo-China (1944-1945), and his liberation.

Interview with James Kerns, U.S. Navy veteran, concerning his experiences while aboard a motor launch in Pearl Harbor during the Japanese attack on December 7, 1941.

Interview with Hugh E. Law, a United States Army veteran from Corvallis, Oregon. Law describes his experiences as a member of the Detach Finance Department stationed at Schofield Barracks during the Japanese attack there and on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.

Interview with Charles W. Lebkowsky, a United States Navy veteran from Otto, Texas. Lebkowsky explains his experiences and recollections aboard the destroyer the USS Tucker during the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.