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Oral History Interview with Tom Blaylock, March 22, 1971 (open access)

Oral History Interview with Tom Blaylock, March 22, 1971

Interview with Tom Blaylock, an Army Air Corps WWII veteran and POW from Dallas, Texas. Blaylock was stationed in the Philippines during the Japanese invasion of December 1941, was captured, forced to partake in the Bataan Death March, and was interned at several major POW camps in the Philippines before transferring to a coal mine camp at Omine-machi, Yamaguchi, Japan.
Date: March 22, 1971
Creator: Marcello, Ronald & Blaylock, Thomas
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library

Oral History Interview with Valerie Martínez-Ebers, October 22, 2013

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Transcript of an interview with Dr. Valerie Martínez-Ebers, professor of Political Science at the University of North Texas and former UNT student. Dr. Martínez-Ebers discusses her childhood as an Army brat; education; family background; discrimination against Mexican Americans; attending UNT with a Mexican American ancestry; growing awareness of ethnicity and ethnic identity; student activism; differences in treatment and attitudes towards Latinos/Latinas in various parts of the United States; teaching politics of race and ethnicity at UNT; continued activism; UNT organizations for Latinos/Latinas.
Date: October 22, 2013
Creator: Bynum, Katherine E. & Martínez-Ebers, Valerie
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library

Oral History Interview with Vick Edmiston, August 22, 2003

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Interview with truck driver Vick Edmiston. The interview includes Edmiston's personal experiences about being employed by the Civilian Conservation Corps during the Great Depression. The interview includes an appendix with a photograph.
Date: August 22, 2003
Creator: Dixon, Tricia Taylor & Edmiston, Vick
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with W. H. Peters, April 22, 1988 (open access)

Oral History Interview with W. H. Peters, April 22, 1988

Interview with W. H. Peters, a United States Navy veteran from McGregor, Texas, regarding his experiences and memories of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor of December 7, 1941 while aboard the light cruiser USS Detroit.
Date: April 22, 1988
Creator: Marcello, Ronald E. & Peters, Walter H.
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with W. Vonceille Taylor, October 22, 1983 (open access)

Oral History Interview with W. Vonceille Taylor, October 22, 1983

Interview with W. Vonceille Taylor, a United States Navy veteran from Cline, Texas, regarding his experiences and memories of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor of December 7, 1941 while aboard the battleship USS Pennsylvania.
Date: October 22, 1983
Creator: Marcello, Ronald E. & Taylor, W. Vonceille
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library

Oral History Interview with Warren Whitson, Jr., November 22, 1995

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Warren Whitson, Jr., a businessman and an Army Air Corps veteran (493rd Bomb Group, 860th Bomb Squadron, 8th Air Force), concerning his experiences as a B-17 pilot in the European Theater during World War II. Whitson discusses his pre-flight and flight training in 1943, his assignment to the 493rd Bomb Group, 860th Bomb Squadron at Stone, England, the characteristics of the B-17G, his first mission in Berlin, problems with flak, tactics to counter German radar, his engine trouble and crash landing in eastern Germany, his rescue by Russian troops, his trip by C-47 back to England via Poltava, Tehran, Cairo, Tripoli, and Dijon, his assignment to a new crew, being shot down by German fighter planes on his seventeenth mission, his brief experiences as a POW, and his liberation by British troops.
Date: November 22, 1995
Creator: Marcello, Ronald E. & Whitson, Warren, Jr.
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library

Oral History Interview with William Havel, April 22, 1994

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Interview with William Havel, an army veteran from Staten Island, New York. This interview recounts his experiences as an adopted child in a farm family and then as a corpsman at Tripler General Hospital during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
Date: April 22, 1994
Creator: Marcello, Ronald E. & Havel, William
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library

Oral History Interview with William Waybourn, May 22, 2013

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Interview with William Waybourn, an LGBT activist from Matador, Texas. Waybourn discusses his early life and education, his work in journalism, his partner, the Dallas Times Herald, his family, working for Market Center, the relationship between the gay community and Dallas community figureheads, the Dallas Gay Alliance, the Dallas "gayborhood," Texas Penal Code 21.06 (the "homosexual conduct" law), police harassment, the Fifth Circuit Court, the AIDS epidemic, fighting medical discrimination, the Gay and Lesbian Victory Fund, the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation, and reflections on his career.
Date: May 22, 2013
Creator: Mims, Michael & Waybourn, William
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library

Oral History Interview with Willie Fred Sander, May 22, 2002

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Interview with Willie Fred Sander, a Navy WWII veteran from Brenham, Texas. Sander discusses his background and life before the war, joining the Navy and aviator training, flying PBM patrol bombers throughout the Pacific, and his family life after the war.
Date: May 22, 2002
Creator: Alexander, William J. & Sander, Willie Fred
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library

Oral History Interview with Xergio Chacin, October 22, 2015

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Transcript of an interview with Xergio Chacin, Director of Immigration Services for Catholic Charities of Fort Wort. Chacin discusses his work as the Director and the the services provided for the community, particularly for Dreamers, and his thoughts on immigration issues.
Date: October 22, 2015
Creator: Fowler, Mike & Chacin, Xergio, 1952-
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library