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[Abilene City Council Minutes: 1998] (open access)

[Abilene City Council Minutes: 1998]

Ledger containing minutes of the City Council in Abilene, Texas documenting the group's discussions and activities from January 8,1998 to December 17, 1998.
Date: 1998-01-08/1998-12-17
Creator: Abilene (Tex.)
System: The Portal to Texas History
FCC Record, Volume 13, No. 1, Pages 1 to 689, December 29, 1997 - January 9, 1998 (open access)

FCC Record, Volume 13, No. 1, Pages 1 to 689, December 29, 1997 - January 9, 1998

Biweekly, comprehensive compilation of decisions, reports, public notices, and other documents of the U.S. Federal Communications Commission.
Date: January 1998
Creator: United States. Federal Communications Commission.
System: The UNT Digital Library
FCC Record, Volume 13, No. 2, Pages 690 to 1365, January 12 - January 23, 1998 (open access)

FCC Record, Volume 13, No. 2, Pages 690 to 1365, January 12 - January 23, 1998

Biweekly, comprehensive compilation of decisions, reports, public notices, and other documents of the U.S. Federal Communications Commission.
Date: January 1998
Creator: United States. Federal Communications Commission.
System: The UNT Digital Library

Lost in Victory: Reflections of American War Orphans of World War II

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In 1990, Ann Mix began her search to find out about her father who had been killed in World War II. She discovered that, of the servicemen who died in that war, 183,000 were fathers. During her search, Mix met others whose fathers had been killed and few of them had much information about their fathers. As a result, Ann founded the American WWII Orphans Network to locate war orphans and become a depository for sources of information about WWII servicemen who were fathers. Senator Robert Dole, who had fought in the 10th Mountain Division with Mix’s father, assisted the network as a National Advisor until 1995, helping it to become a true humanitarian organization. War orphan Susan Johnson Hadler, a psychologist, began a collaboration with Ann to collect the stories of the orphans when she discovered there were no statistics on the number of children and no studies on the effects of their fathers’ deaths on their lives. Records which could have helped sociologists, psychologists, and historians were simply nonexistent. Mix and Hadler began to interview war orphans, who nearly all reported having felt the awkwardness with which America treated the subject of their fathers. At a young age, …
Date: January 1998
Creator: Hadler, Susan Johnson; Mix, Anna Bennett & Christman, Calvin
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Story Log: January 1 to June 30, 1998] (open access)

[News Story Log: January 1 to June 30, 1998]

Logbook from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, documenting the names, locations, and run-times of video-taped news segments that aired each day from January through June in 1998.
Date: 1998-01/1998-06
Creator: KXAS-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
System: The UNT Digital Library

Oral History Interview with Jack Browder, January 15, 1998

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Interview with Jack Browder, a Army WWII veteran from Duncan, Oklahoma. Browder was a staff officer with the 741st Tank Battalion in Europe; he recounts his education and entry to active duty in 1941, transfer to the new 741st, armor training and exercises, duties as a supply officer, preparations for the Normandy invasion, DD tanks, D-Day, attachment to the 2nd Infantry Division and advances through northern France, the M4 Sherman, his thoughts on General George S. Patton, the Battle of Saint Lô, souvenirs and trading, the Battle of the Bulge, crossing Germany into Czechoslovakia, returning to the States, and postwar service.
Date: January 15, 1998
Creator: Marcello, Ronald E. & Browder, Jack
System: The UNT Digital Library