Oral History Interview with Dr. Dan Wallace Bacon, March 3, 1998 (open access)

Oral History Interview with Dr. Dan Wallace Bacon, March 3, 1998

Interview with Dr. Dan Wallace Bacon, a physician from Kerrville, Texas, who also served as the city and Kerr County health officer. Dr. Bacon discusses his family history, as well as his education, medical career, brief stint in the Air Force, and general town life in Kerrville. While working at Peterson Hospital in Kerrville, he treated trauma victims from car accidents on Highway 27. In the Air Force, he briefly practiced psychiatry, served as a prison doctor, and finally switched to obstetrics and gynecology. He relates stories from his time as an obstetrician, as well as a general practitioner and family physician. He also discusses the history of minority communities in Kerrville, especially during integration, and the founding of the Kerrville Veteran's Hospital. Dr. Bacon's further remembrances, as well as a historical profile of the Kerrville VA Hospital, are included at the end of the interview transcript.
Date: March 3, 1998
Creator: Bethel, Ann & Bacon, Dan Wallace
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from I. H. Kempner to Mr. W. L. Moody, III, March 20, 1951] (open access)

[Letter from I. H. Kempner to Mr. W. L. Moody, III, March 20, 1951]

Letter from I. H. Kempner to Mr. W. L. Moody, III discussing a deal in which the United States National Bank could could act as a trustee or fiscal agent, later mentioning Ed Leach's assurance to do something for the Medical College.
Date: March 20, 1951
Creator: Kempner, Isaac H. (Isaac Herbert), 1873-1967
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from W. L. Moody, III to Mr. I. H. Kempner, March 18, 1951] (open access)

[Letter from W. L. Moody, III to Mr. I. H. Kempner, March 18, 1951]

Letter from W. L. Moody, III to Mr. I. H. Kempner discussing plans to have the United States National Bank made one of the trustees to represent the stockholders of the Pan American Exploration Company and complications due to a major oil company's wish that no bank be made a trustee.
Date: March 18, 1951
Creator: Moody, W. L., III
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History
[News Script: APB 120] (open access)

[News Script: APB 120]

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about weather reports in different counties of Texas.
Date: March 15, 1974, 8:25 a.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Script
System: The UNT Digital Library