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Oral History Interview with Rena Pederson, April 5, 2012 (open access)

Oral History Interview with Rena Pederson, April 5, 2012

Interview with Rena Pederson, a former journalist in Dallas, Texas. The interview includes biographical information about her life growing up, her educational background, her career with The Dallas Morning News and other newspapers, the books she has written, and her work in communications and public affairs.
Date: April 5, 2012
Creator: Harding, Anne; Dann, Lori & Pederson, Rena
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
[Letter from D. W. Kempner to T. L. James, December 23, 1949] (open access)

[Letter from D. W. Kempner to T. L. James, December 23, 1949]

Letter from D. W. Kempner to Thos. L. James discussing a recent report on Jute in Pakistan and India with heeded advice.
Date: December 23, 1949
Creator: Kempner, Daniel W. (Daniel Webster), 1877-1956
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from Brown Booth of Houston Committee on Foreign Relations to the members, January 12, 1959] (open access)

[Letter from Brown Booth of Houston Committee on Foreign Relations to the members, January 12, 1959]

Letter from Brown Booth of Houston Committee on Foreign Relations to the members mentioning about the meeting happening on January 21, 1959 with the speaker, M. Jacques Fouchet. He mentions a little bit about the speaker and about the meeting, asking if they'd attend in the end.
Date: January 12, 1959
Creator: Booth, Brown
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Imperial Sugar Company Cirular #45- August 1, 1955] (open access)

[Imperial Sugar Company Cirular #45- August 1, 1955]

Notice from Ken L. Laird to all brokers (list #1) discussing updates and information passed along from New York including a quota increase and affect on the market, new legislation affecting sugar, distribution figures, and international sales.
Date: August 1, 1955
Creator: Laird, Kenneth L.
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History
[News Script: Port Aransas] (open access)

[News Script: Port Aransas]

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story of salvage crews who continue to work near Port Aransas, trying to free a 570-foot freighter which ran around.
Date: February 9, 1974, 10:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Script
System: The UNT Digital Library
[Letter from Robert E. Haran to Harris Kempner, August 29, 1962] (open access)

[Letter from Robert E. Haran to Harris Kempner, August 29, 1962]

Letter from Robert E. Haran to Harris Kempner discussing the Seasons Navigation Corporation's cargo ship abilities and the possibility of creating a contract for shipping cotton.
Date: August 29, 1962
Creator: Haran, Robert E.
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History

Oral History Interview with Shazia Ali, October 15, 2012

Access: Use of this item is restricted to the UNT Community
Interview with Dr. Shazia Ali, a professor from Dallas, Texas. Ali discusses her life and career as a Pakistani-American, including her family origins, growing up in Karachi and Dubai, her education, her work for a newspaper, the slums of Karachi, meeting her husband, being married over the phone, emigrating to Dallas, employment at UT-Dallas, having children, attending Richland College, cultural effects of September 11th, getting a PhD, parenting, and navigating cultures.
Date: October 15, 2012
Creator: Cloer, Katherine & Ali, Shazia
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Charles H. Tucker, April 18, 2017 (open access)

Oral History Interview with Charles H. Tucker, April 18, 2017

The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with Charles H. Tucker from Orange, California. He discusses volunteering for the U.S. Army Air Corps in 1943 and going to basic training in Miami Beach, Florida, then going to Aircraft Armament School in Buckley Field, Colorado, and finally air gunnery school in Fort Myers, Florida. In air gunnery school, Mr. Tucker learned to shoot in B-17 by shooting into the Gulf of Mexico. After gunnery school he was sent to the B-25 crew training at Columbia, South Carolina for 5 months. After Mr. Tucker completed his training, he was transferred to Dacca to a B-25 base and joined the 10th Air Force, the 12th Bomb Group. When he arrived his crew pilots were reassigned, and Mr. Tucker was not able to fly much until he was assigned to a regular crew again. Mr. Tucker was put in the 729th bomb squadron tasked with supporting the British 14th Army against the Japanese forces in Burma. The campaign he was involved in ended in May 1945 with the capture of Rangoon, the main city of Burma and Mr. tucker was in one of the squadron planes that flew over the …
Date: April 18, 2017
Creator: Tucker, Charles H.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Charles H. Tucker, April 18, 2017 transcript

Oral History Interview with Charles H. Tucker, April 18, 2017

The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with Charles H. Tucker from Orange, California. He discusses volunteering for the U.S. Army Air Corps in 1943 and going to basic training in Miami Beach, Florida, then going to Aircraft Armament School in Buckley Field, Colorado, and finally air gunnery school in Fort Myers, Florida. In air gunnery school, Mr. Tucker learned to shoot in B-17 by shooting into the Gulf of Mexico. After gunnery school he was sent to the B-25 crew training at Columbia, South Carolina for 5 months. After Mr. Tucker completed his training, he was transferred to Dacca to a B-25 base and joined the 10th Air Force, the 12th Bomb Group. When he arrived his crew pilots were reassigned, and Mr. Tucker was not able to fly much until he was assigned to a regular crew again. Mr. Tucker was put in the 729th bomb squadron tasked with supporting the British 14th Army against the Japanese forces in Burma. The campaign he was involved in ended in May 1945 with the capture of Rangoon, the main city of Burma and Mr. tucker was in one of the squadron planes that flew over the …
Date: April 18, 2017
Creator: Tucker, Charles H.
Object Type: Sound
System: The Portal to Texas History
[News Script: The light side] (open access)

[News Script: The light side]

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about various "lighter side" news stories, including: 1) A new amusement park in Arlington called Six Flags over Texas, which opened on August 5th, 1961, and had over 600,000 people visit in it's short, 1st season of 16 weeks; 2) The Texas visit of Pakistan camel-driver Bashir Ahmad, invited by Vice President Johnson; 3) A new fad among college students - bed pushing; 4) Mrs. Rex Cromwell of Dallas and her problems with neighbors over the many dogs she owns; 5) Dixie comedian Dave Gardner, visiting Fort Worth in February.
Date: December 31, 1961
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Script
System: The UNT Digital Library