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Oral History Interview with Robert Edward Sieker, August 3, 2000 (open access)

Oral History Interview with Robert Edward Sieker, August 3, 2000

Interview with Robert Edward Sieker, a pilot from Kerrville, Texas. Mr. Sieker discusses his grandfather's immigration from Germany. In addition to his stories from his extensive flying career, he also talks about his service in the military during World War II, his various occupations throughout the years, and his work against the screwworm infestation.
Date: August 3, 2000
Creator: Bethel, Ann; Snodgrass, Clarabelle & Sieker, Robert Edward
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Jack and Frances Real Stevens, January 31, 2001 (open access)

Oral History Interview with Jack and Frances Real Stevens, January 31, 2001

Interview with Jack and Frances Real Stevens, a ranching and former Navy couple from Kerrville, Texas. The couple describes their individual childhoods, growing up in town and on a ranch, as well as their travels around the world. Mr. and Mrs. Stevens also discuss their involvement with the Kerrville community. The interview includes a history of the Kerrville German Dance Club, on pages 2-4.
Date: January 31, 2001
Creator: Bethel, Ann; Snodgrass, Clarabelle; Stevens, Jack & Stevens, Frances Real
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Clipping: The Long Walk to Recognition] (open access)

[Clipping: The Long Walk to Recognition]

Copy of the June 1995 copy of The Washington Post. Articles about Deputy Chief of Staff Harold Ickes, the Women in Military Service for America (WIMSA) Memorial Foundation, and more are included.
Date: June 22, 1995
Creator: Griest, Stephanie
Object Type: Clipping
System: The Portal to Texas History

Oral History Interviews with Max Pila, 1993-1994

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Interview with Max Pila, a Holocaust survivor from Zlav, Poland. Pila discusses his family and Jewish background, antisemitism, the German invasion, life in the ghetto, executions, labor, transfer to Auschwitz-Birkenau, daily experience in internment, mining at Janina, the forced march to Bergen-Belsen, liberation, and life afterwards.
Date: {1993-10-15,1994-04-01}
Creator: Marcello, Ronald E. & Pila, Max
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library

Oral History Interview with Anna Robinson, November 27, 2007

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Interview with Anna Robinson, a Women's Army Corps veteran from Fort Worth, Texas. Robinson discusses her family and childhood, joining the WAC, transfer to Germany as a supply clerk in 1946, life and work in that assignment, being in a car wreck, her sexuality and gays in the service, the Iraq War and George W. Bush, leaving the Army and work for the city of Forth Worth as an artist, her church involvement, and returning to Germany,
Date: November 27, 2007
Creator: Quick, Janice L. & Robinson, Anna
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Maria Landowska, December 21, 1989 (open access)

Oral History Interview with Maria Landowska, December 21, 1989

Interview with Maria Landowska, a Holocaust survivor from Metz, France. Landowska discusses family, her upbringing, her Jewish father being taken away by strangers, Kristallnacht (Chrystal Night/Night of Broken Glass), deportation by train to Dachau concentration camp, her shock and trauma, work at the camps, Auschwitz, being experimented on along with her twin, eventual recuperation, and her career as an advisor and author.
Date: December 21, 1989
Creator: Rosen, Keith & Landowska, Maria
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library

Oral History Interview with Inga Pennock, January 27, 1990

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Interview with Inga Pennock, a Holocaust survivor from Berlin. Pennock discusses her family background, experiencing antisemitism and the start of Nazi rule, trying to leave Germany and hiding, increasing violence, Kristallnacht, losing family, fleeing to Shanghai, Japanese occupation and the ghetto, working as a nurse for the Japanese, living conditions, liberation, and life afterwards.
Date: January 27, 1990
Creator: Rosen, Keith G. & Pennock, Inga
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library

Oral History Interview with Seth Bailey, December 12, 2007

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Interview with Seth Bailey, veteran of Operation Iraqi Freedom, as part of the Tarrant County War Veterans Oral History Project. The interview includes Bailey's personal experiences of childhood and education in Athens, Texas, enlisting in the U.S. Army, basic training at Ft. Benning, Georgia, including experiences in Ranger Indoctrination Program and injuries sustained in "jump school," as well as his combat experiences in Karbala, Ramadi, and Al Asad. Bailey also talks about his family's tradition of military service, his assignment to a unit in Darmstadt, Germany, his deployment to Iraq and performance of long-range surveillance missions, continuing struggles with injury from basic training, with the Army health care system, and with substance abuse. Additionally, Bailey discusses his treatment at the Walter Reed Army Hospital, being discharged from the Army, returning to Arlington, Texas, and gives his opinions regarding the benefits of military service and regarding women in the military.
Date: December 12, 2007
Creator: Russell, Amy & Bailey, Seth
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Clip: German] captions transcript

[News Clip: German]

Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about a visit to Arlington by Henri Reichert, a man from Konigshafen, Germany, a town adopted by the people of Arlington in a charity effort.
Date: April 13, 1955
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Video
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Clip: Mayor Justin] captions transcript

[News Clip: Mayor Justin]

Video footage from the WBAP-TV television station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story.
Date: October 5, 1961
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Video
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: 10PM sports] (open access)

[News Script: 10PM sports]

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story going over the daily sports highlights.
Date: September 3, 1972, 10:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Script
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: 6PM sports] (open access)

[News Script: 6PM sports]

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story going over the daily sports highlights.
Date: September 1, 1972, 6:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Script
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Arlington fatal] (open access)

[News Script: Arlington fatal]

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about Patricia Diane who was killed in a three vehicle accident in Arlington.
Date: August 13, 1974, 8:25 a.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Script
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Braniff European service] (open access)

[News Script: Braniff European service]

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about Braniff international airlines which followed the lead of National airlines which has submitted it' s proposal to link Dallas Fort Worth airport to major European capitals by the way of new Trans Atlantic route.
Date: April 10, 1974, 6:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Script
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Change of command] (open access)

[News Script: Change of command]

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about just before a new president was sworn in Washington, Carswell air force base staged a change of command ceremony of its own in Fort Worth.
Date: August 9, 1974, 6:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Script
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Court Martial] (open access)

[News Script: Court Martial]

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story of an American GI who is found guilty of negligent homicide in the shooting death of an Azle soldier in Germany.
Date: December 24, 1973, 6:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Script
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: European flites] (open access)

[News Script: European flites]

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about following the lead of National airlines, Braniff international has filed with the civil aeronautics board for 16 non stop flights weekly from DFW.
Date: April 10, 1974, 12:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Script
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: German] (open access)

[News Script: German]

Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a visit to Arlington by Henri Reichert, a man from Konigshafen, Germany, a town adopted by the people of Arlington in a charity effort.
Date: April 13, 1955
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Script
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: German baron] (open access)

[News Script: German baron]

Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a royal visitor to Fort Worth, Baron Hanno Von Collenberg from Germany.
Date: June 13, 1951
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Script
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: German treaty] (open access)

[News Script: German treaty]

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about east Germany which has ratified its basic treaty of normalized relations with west Germany.
Date: June 13, 1973, 12:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Script
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Headlines] (open access)

[News Script: Headlines]

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, with two headlines: one about the demolition of the Worth Hotel and one about airline hijackings.
Date: October 29, 1972
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Script
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Mayor Justin] (open access)

[News Script: Mayor Justin]

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the return of Fort Worth Mayor Justin, who traveled with 22 other US mayors to West Berlin, and spent time in East Berlin.
Date: October 5, 1961
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Script
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: National] (open access)

[News Script: National]

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about national airlines which has asked permission from the civil aeronautics board to provide direct service from the metroplex to capitols of Europe.
Date: April 8, 1974, 10:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Script
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: News Briefs - Gooks] (open access)

[News Script: News Briefs - Gooks]

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a group of international visitors stopping in Fort Worth as part of their tour of America and several other countries to look at their electric power industries.
Date: September 2, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Script
System: The UNT Digital Library