Weekly African-American newspaper from Charleston, South Carolina that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.

Video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story. This story aired at 5 P.M.

Letter from WASP Cornelia Yerkes discussing flying from Spartanburg, SC, to Newark, visiting New York City, preparing to pick up a P-47 in Evansville, IN, and Father's Day.

Interview with building contractor and Marine Corps veteran Donald Boots. The interview includes Boots' personal experiences about the Pacific Theater during World War II, childhood, boot camp, camouflage school, training in beachhead organization with the 4th Pioneer Battalion, mopping-up operations on Kwajalein, rest and retraining on Maui, being assigned as a BAR man, invading Saipan, and assaulting enemy caves on Saipan. Boots also talks about the stress of battle, returning to Maui for rest and retraining, the invasion of Iwo Jima, Japanese resistance on the Iwo Jima beaches, the rescue of his friend, his role in organizing the beach operation at Iwo Jima, establishing beach defenses on Iwo Jima, evacuating and returning to Maui, retraining and refitting for the invasion of the Japanese home islands, and the dropping of the atomic bombs.

Letter from R. I. Mehan to Harris Kempner Weston informing about enclosed certificate for shares of Beneficial Interest and requesting for signature.

The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with John Reas. Reas grew up in Indiana and Ohio and enlisted in the Navy in 1938. After training, he boarded the USS Houston (CA-30) at Charleston, South Carolina. He was assigned to the aviation unit. On February 28, 1942, he survived the bombing and sinking of the ship. He and other survivors in life rafts were picked up by the Japanese the next day and taken to Java as a prisoner of war. He was taken to a ship and then back to an island, where he met survivors of the Australian ship HMAS Perth (D29). They were moved from Serang to Batavia. He was told to record the POW's occupations and those idenitified as skilled were sent to Japan. Inspired by this, he kept a detailed and complete list of the survivors that he kept hidden. From Java, the survivors are put on a cargo ship to Singapore. Then they went to Pynang by train. He then boarded another ship to Burma. Allied forces bombed a ship next to Reas. He describes living in bamboo huts while building the railroad. During one of the routine abuses in …

Weekly report of the Texas Crop and Livestock Reporting Service on broiler chick numbers in Texas and compared with other states. It includes compiled statistics across six consecutive weeks, from the week ending March 9 to the week ending April 13, during 1984 and 1985 for broiler eggs set, chicks hatched, and chicks placed.

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about top aides of vice president who have decided that the republican national committee will no longer pay the full cost for any official trip Ford makes that includes a political appearance.

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about officials at Tinker air force base who reported that 37 year old air force reservist was killed when his F- 105 crashed during maneuvers near show air force base in south Carolina.

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about Congress returning back to Capitol Hill after a vacation and conducting a hearing on incrasing the national deby ceiling, Colonel Kehrli being transffered to an air base in the U.S. to await review of his marijuana conviction and 22 White men going to trial on charges of rioting.

Daily newspaper from Charleston, South Carolina that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Sen. Storm Thurmond, R-S.C."