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Oral History Interview with Sarah T. Hughes, 1969 (open access)

Oral History Interview with Sarah T. Hughes, 1969

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.
Date: January 15, 1969
Creator: Gantt, Fred & Hughes, Sarah T.
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with L. DeWitt Hale, August 29, 1968 (open access)

Oral History Interview with L. DeWitt Hale, August 29, 1968

Interview with former Democratic Texas House of Representatives member L. DeWitt Hale, an attorney from Corpus Christi, Texas. The interview includes Hales' personal experiences while serving as a member of the Special Session of the Sixtieth Legislator, as well as his personal thoughts on revenue legislation, the reform of liquor laws, and changes in the House rules.
Date: January 31, 1970
Creator: Odom, E. Dale & Hale, L. DeWitt
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Ben Barnes, January 5, 1970 (open access)

Oral History Interview with Ben Barnes, January 5, 1970

Interview with former Democratic Speaker of the Texas House of Representatives, Lieutenant Governor Ben Barnes. The interview includes Barnes' personal experiences while serving as a member of the Sixty-first Legislature, as well as his thoughts on issues such as one-year versus two-year budgets, the creation of four-year colleges, the influence of beer and liquor lobbyists, sales tax exemptions, revenue legislation, annual legislative sessions, and future political ambitions. The interview also includes the former governor's comments about Speaker Gus Mutscher.
Date: January 5, 1970
Creator: Marcello, Ronald E. & Barnes, Ben
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Jerrell Shaw, January 12, 1983 (open access)

Oral History Interview with Jerrell Shaw, January 12, 1983

Interview with businessman Jerrell Shaw Businessman from Denton, Texas. In the interview, Shaw reminisces about when he was a member of the football team during the desegregation of athletics at North Texas State College in 1956.
Date: January 12, 1983
Creator: Cummings, Randy; Marcello, Ronald E. & Shaw, Jerrell
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Jerry Russell, January 13, 1983 (open access)

Oral History Interview with Jerry Russell, January 13, 1983

Interview with attorney Jerry Russell from Dallas, Texas. In the interview, Russell describes his experiences as a member of the football team during the desegregation of athletics at North Texas State College in 1956.
Date: January 13, 1983
Creator: Cummings, Randy; Marcello, Ronald E. & Russell, Jerry
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Ray Toole, January 14, 1983 (open access)

Oral History Interview with Ray Toole, January 14, 1983

Interview with businessman Ray Toole. In the interview, he describes his experiences as a member of the football team during the desegregation of athletics at North Texas State College in 1956.
Date: January 14, 1983
Creator: Cummings, Randy; Marcello, Ronald E. & Toole, Ray
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Oscar H. Mauzy, July 24, 1968 (open access)

Oral History Interview with Oscar H. Mauzy, July 24, 1968

Interview with former Democratic Texas Senator Oscar H. Mauzy, an attorney from Dallas, Texas. The interview includes Mauzy's personal views and experiences while serving as a member of the Special Session of the Sixtieth Legislature.
Date: January 30, 1970
Creator: Odom, E. Dale & Mauzy, Oscar H.
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Tom Creighton, July 15, 1975 (open access)

Oral History Interview with Tom Creighton, July 15, 1975

Interview with Democratic Texas Senator Tom Creighton, who was an attorney from Mineral Wells, Texas. The interview includes the Senator's personal views and experiences as a member of the Sixty-fourth Texas Legislature. The interview also includes the Senator's thoughts on fellow politicians, committee assignments, lobbying, reform of the local and uncontested calendar, constitutional revision, the public school finance bill, public utilities legislation, and personal legislation.
Date: January 9, 1976
Creator: Marcello, Ronald E. & Creighton, Tom
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Charles Wilson, January 1, 1972 (open access)

Oral History Interview with Charles Wilson, January 1, 1972

Interview with Senator Charles Wilson, a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Lufkin, Texas. In the interview, Wilson discusses his personal views and experiences concerning specific problems in the Texas state government, personal legislation, utilities regulation, the appointment of committee members, lobbies, campaign financial disclosure, election filing fees, committee structure, annual legislative sessions, taxation, and legislative apportionment.
Date: January 4, 1972
Creator: Riddlesperger, James W. & Wilson, Charles
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library

Oral History Interview with Elinor W. King, January 9, 1992

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Interview with schoolteacher Elinor W. King from Denton, Texas. In the interview, King describes her life as a student at the Frederick Douglass Colored School in Denton, and includes comments about fellow classmates, teachers, activities, sports, discipline, classes, and summer jobs. King also discusses the desegregation of Denton and the closing of Fred Moore School.
Date: January 9, 1992
Creator: Glaze, Michele & King, Elinor W.
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library

Oral History Interview with A. Tennyson Miller, January 11, 1992

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Interview with schoolteacher A. Tennyson Miller from Denton, Texas. In the interview, Miller reflects on his experiences as a teacher and coach at the Fredrick Douglass School during the late 1930's and early 1940's, which was before the school was integrated. He comments on Principal Fred Moore and segregated education in Denton. Tennyson also discusses his admission to the doctoral program at North Texas State College, which broke racial barriers in 1954.
Date: January 11, 1992
Creator: Glaze, Michele & Miller, A. Tennyson
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library

Oral History Interview with Aletha Barsanti, January 17, 2003

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Interview with Aletha Barsanti regarding her experiences as the wife of U. S. Army General Olinto Barsanti. They married in 1942. She remembers their courtship in San Antonio; their assignments in Europe, Japan, and Washington, D.C.; raising their children; his activities in the Korean War; his promotion to general; military protocol for the wives of general officers; and his one-year tour in the Vietnam War as the commander of the 101st Airborne Division. He was diagnosed with stomach cancer and died in May 1973.
Date: January 17, 2003
Creator: Lane, Peter B. & Barsanti, Aletha
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library

Oral History Interview with Mansfield Millington Bascom, January 29, 2000

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Interview with engineer and Army veteran Mansfield Millington Bascom. The interview includes Bascom's personal experiences about the European Theater during World War II, basic training, action on the Siegfried Line, the Battle of Aachen, individual episodes of close ground combat, German tank concentrations immediately prior to the Ardennes Offensive, being wounded and evacuating from the front, recuperation, and returning to the states.
Date: January 29, 2000
Creator: Alexander, William J. & Bascom, Mansfield Millington
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library

Oral History Interview with Joe Cole, January 20, 2004

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Interview with photojournalist and artist Joe Cole. The interview includes Cole's personal experiences about the Texas International Pop Festival. Cole talks about his parents' reaction to changes in the Sixties, his introduction to marijuana, his attraction to the music of the Beatles, his initial introduction to the Fort Worth hippie culture, his views towards the Vietnam war, obtaining an agricultural exemption from his local draft board, Sixties music and its message, his comments about the Chicago Transit Authority, Canned Heat, and Led Zeppelin, activities of the Hog Farm, drug usage at the festival, festival security personnel, "bad trip" tents, skinny-dipping in Lake Dallas, and the lasting influence of the festival on his life.
Date: January 20, 2004
Creator: Tittle, Dennis & Cole, Joe
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library

Oral History Interview with Harry E. Chase, January 29, 2001

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Interview with pastor and Navy veteran Harry E. Chase. The interview includes Chase's personal experiences while aboard the destroyer tender USS Dobbin during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
Date: January 29, 2001
Creator: Marcello, Ronald E. & Chase, Harry E.
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library

Oral History Interview with L. B. England, January 23, 2002

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Interview with Navy veteran L. B. England. The interview includes England's personal experiences while aboard the battleship USS West Virginia during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. England also talks about the death of his brother, Boyd England, who was killed on the West Virginia during the attack. The interview includes an appendix with an article about England.
Date: January 23, 2002
Creator: Marcello, Ronald E. & England, L. B.
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Artis Teer, January 10, 1977 (open access)

Oral History Interview with Artis Teer, January 10, 1977

Interview with Navy veteran Artis Teer. The interview includes Teer's personal experiences while aboard the battleship USS Nevada during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
Date: January 10, 1977
Creator: Marcello, Ronald E. & Teer, Artis
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library

Oral History Interview with George and Wanda Holcombe, January 2, 2017

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Interview with George Holcombe, a Methodist pastor and civil rights activist from Houston, Texas, and his wife and associate Wanda, from Sims, Texas. The Holcombes discuss their family origins, initial exposure to racial problems and civil rights, their respective educations, pastoral work in Baton Rouge and Chicago, the Ku Klux Klan and dangers encountered, work with the Ecumenical Institute of Chicago and empowering black communities, the 1968 Chicago riots, Fifth City, and similar work in Australia and the Philippines.
Date: January 2, 2017
Creator: Czap, Joseph; Holcombe, George & Holcombe, Wanda
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Volnie S. Burk, January 10, 1972 (open access)

Oral History Interview with Volnie S. Burk, January 10, 1972

Interview with Volnie S. Burk, an Army veteran and survivor of the siege at Fort Hughes near Corregidor, concerning his experiences as a prisoner-of-war of the Japanese during World War II. Burk discusses the fall of Fort Hughes and his capture, Bilibid Prison in Manila (1942), Cabanatuan (1942-1943), the Manila port area (1943), his return to Bilibid Prison (1943-1944), the fall of Manila (1945), and his liberation.
Date: January 10, 1972
Creator: Marcello, Ronald E. & Burk, Volnie S.
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with James R. Heldenfels, January 5, 1972 (open access)

Oral History Interview with James R. Heldenfels, January 5, 1972

Interview with James R. Heldenfels, a businessman from Beeville, Texas. Heldenfels discusses the origins of the Heldenfels Brothers dredging company, his education, the company's operations and organization, conservationists, federal regulation of shell dredging, his customers, barges, shell dredging practice, the local economy, finances, and property developments.
Date: January 5, 1972
Creator: Stephens, A. Ray & Heldenfels, James R.
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with H. F. Elliot, January 4, 1972 (open access)

Oral History Interview with H. F. Elliot, January 4, 1972

Interview with H. F. Elliot, a doctor in Aransas County from Ames, Iowa. Elliot discusses his education, the most common illnesses he treats, common diseases in the county, the patients he sees, the capabilities of different hospitals he refers them to, quarantine, hurricanes, the school system, local sports, and his involvement in the Boy Scouts.
Date: January 4, 1972
Creator: Stephens, A. Ray & Elliot, H. F.
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Arthur Dodge Jr., January 8, 1971 (open access)

Oral History Interview with Arthur Dodge Jr., January 8, 1971

Interview with Arthur B. Dodge, Jr., a US Army WWII veteran from Lancaster, Pennsylvania. Dodge recounts his service in M Company, 350th Infantry Regiment, 88th Infantry Division, which landed in Morocco and moved through Algeria in late-1943, before landing in Italy, where his unit took up position on the Cassino-Rapido-Garigliano front in March, 1944. Dodge describes prolonged skirmishing with German forces near Tremesuoli, Lazio, the breakout from Cassino, advancing into northern Italy, and finishing the war in the Po Valley.
Date: January 8, 1971
Creator: Marcello, Ronald E. & Dodge Jr., Arthur B.
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with T. G. Crews, January 22, 1972 (open access)

Oral History Interview with T. G. Crews, January 22, 1972

Interview with T. G. Crews, a Marine WWII veteran and POW from Stephenville, Texas. Crews, among the first Americans taken prisoner by the Japanese during the war, discusses his time with the North China Marines in Peking, his unit's duties there, his capture, and his experiences during internment at Tianjin, Shanghai, Peking, Busan, and Hakodate.
Date: January 22, 1972
Creator: Marcello, Ronald E. & Crews, T. G.
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with John Miller, January 5, 1972 (open access)

Oral History Interview with John Miller, January 5, 1972

Interview with Judge John Miller of the 36th Judicial District from Beeville, Texas. Miller discusses his family origins and education, the kinds of criminals he encounters, district organization, fellow justices, grand jury selection, his thoughts on past Texas governors, state elections, and prominent members of the Aransas area.
Date: January 5, 1972
Creator: Stephens, A. Ray & Miller, John
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library