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World War II Pearl Harbor Survivors Oral History Project
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Texas Political History Oral History Project
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Texas Community History Oral History Project
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Dallas LGBT Oral History Project
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Quakertown Oral History Project
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World War II Pearl Harbor Survivors (Marine Corps) Oral History Project
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World War II Pearl Harbor Survivors (Navy) Oral History Project
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Oral History Interview with Larry Leathers, July 15, 2020
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Interview with Larry Leathers, former Visual Manager at Neiman Marcus from Dallas, Texas. Leathers describes his background in theater and dance, fascination with the "frozen theater" of display mannequins, entry into the fashion industry, promotion from display creator to manager of a department to manager of a whole store, stories about working with clients, family, change over time, and the importance of remembering the heart of the fashion industry.
Date:
July 15, 2020
Creator:
Becker, Annette & Leathers, Larry
Object Type:
Sound
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Allan Shivers, April 12, 1965
Interview with former state senator, lieutenant governor, and governor of Texas (1950-57), Allan Shivers from Lufkin, Texas. The interview includes Shivers' observations on his career in the Texas Senate (1934-45), liquor control issue, pari-mutuel betting, lobbyists, oil politics, labor relations, comments about Governors James Allred and W. Lee O'Daniel, race for lieutenant governor in 1946, views on the operation of state government, education, Truman presidential race of 1948, tidelands oil, death of Governor Jester in 1949 and succession to governorship, gubernatorial election in 1950 and the Stevenson-Eisenhower campaign of 1952.
Date:
April 12, 1965
Creator:
Brewer, Thomas B. & Shivers, Allan
Object Type:
Book
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interviews with Allan Shivers, 1966-1968
Interview with Allan Shivers, a former state senator, lieutenant governor, and governor of Texas, 1950-57. The interview includes Shivers' observations on political career of Lyndon Johnson, the Stevenson-Johnson senatorial race of 1948, the Stevenson-Eisenhower presidential campaign of 1952, the Johnson presidential race of 1960, Texas Democratic politics from 1952-56, and the Fifty-third State Legislature. The interview also includes his opinion on the governor's role in state party organization, the state Democratic Convention of 1951, the gubernatorial election of 1954, veterans land board controversy from 1954-55, as well as insurance scandals of the mid-1950s and the lame-duck governor.
Date:
July 24, 1969
Creator:
Brewer, Thomas B.; Gantt, Fred & Shivers, Allan
Object Type:
Book
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Weldon Hart, 1966-1967
Interviews with Weldon Hart, a public relations executive and executive director of the Texas Good Roads Association. The interviews includes Hart's experiences as press secretary and appointments secretary to former Governors Beauford Jester, 1947-50, and Allan Shivers, 1950-57; head of the Texas Employment Commission; organization of a Texas political machine; lobbying for the highway construction industries of Texas. The interviews took place on three separate dates: August 8, 1966, February 6, 1967, and July 3, 1967.
Date:
December 18, 1967
Creator:
Brewer, Thomas B.; Odom, E. Dale & Hart, Weldon
Object Type:
Book
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Robert Stewart, March 27, 2003
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Interview with jazz musician Robert "Bob" Stewart. In the interview, Steward speaks about his early interest in music, his first drum set, first professional job with the Shorty Clements Band, attending college, his employment as a disk jockey, his definition of jazz, playing with the Charles Scott Band in fort Worth, after-hours clubs in Fort Worth, jazz's role in bringing together black and white musicians, various jazz clubs and venues in Fort Worth, musicians unions, the lack of full-time employment opportunities for jazz musicians in Fort Worth, the Fort Worth jazz scene, and peculiarities of Texas jazz and the "Texas Sound." The interview includes an appendix with photographs.
Date:
March 27, 2003
Creator:
Brown, Peggy Brandt & Stewart, Robert
Object Type:
Book
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Alma Clark, April 2017
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Audio log for a recording of an interview with Alma Clark regarding her experiences with the Denton Women's Interracial Fellowship. She discusses her childhood and background, living in a segregated neighborhood in Austin, interracial relationships, moving to Denton and Quakertown history, and her involvement with the Denton Women's Interracial Fellowship.
Date:
April 20, 2017
Creator:
Ceballos, Nathan & Clark, Alma
Object Type:
Book
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with J. Fagg Foster, August 28, 1967
Interview with J. Fagg Foster, from Blue Ridge, Texas. The interview includes Foster's involvement in the Rainey controversy while he was a graduate assistant at the University of Texas, 1944-45.
Date:
April 16, 1968
Creator:
Cochran, Kendall & Foster, J. Fagg
Object Type:
Book
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Reby Cary, April 14, 2014
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Interview with Reby Cary, a professor, Texas State legislator, and civil rights activist from Fort Worth, Texas. Cary discusses attending Prairie View A&M, WWII service in the Coast Guard, segregation, his authorship, teaching at Dunbar HS, being the first black member of a schoolboard and the first black professor at UT Arlington, his tenure as a Texas State Congressman, experiences of discrimination, his experiences in the Civil Rights Movement, and his thoughts on Martin Luther King Jr., Barack Obama, and other black leaders. In appendix are photographs of Cary's various awards and the program for a Baptist service celebrated in his honor.
Date:
April 14, 2014
Creator:
Fant, Christopher E. & Cary, Reby
Object Type:
Book
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with George Christian, August 8, 1968
Interview with George Christian, White House Press Secretary of the Lyndon Johnson administration from Austin, Texas. Christian discusses the organization of the president's staff and their duties, Johnson's decision-making process and habits as president, his own role as press secretary and the challenges of it, the logistics of communication at the White House, differences between state and federal politics, public perception of presidents and their credibility, the coming end of Johnson's term, party politics, and the 1968 election.
Date:
August 8, 1968
Creator:
Gantt, Fred & Christian, George
Object Type:
Book
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Claud H. Gilmer, April 6, 1968
Interview with Representative Claud H. Gilmer, a Texas state legislator from Rocksprings, Texas. Gilmer discusses his entry into politics, his first campaign for election, his experiences as a freshman in congress, the "Immortal Fifty-six," his position on the Omnibus Tax Bill, his relationship with Price Daniel, his views on Governor W. Lee O'Daniel, bills he sponsored, his impression of Daniel as House Speaker, appointing house committee members, his thoughts on the House Speaker as an office, public education in Texas, his thoughts on governor Beauford H. Jester, and his time as Speaker.
Date:
April 6, 1968
Creator:
Gantt, Fred & Gilmer, Claud H.
Object Type:
Book
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interviews with Mrs. Dan Moody, 1968
Interview with Mrs. Dan Moody, wife of former Texas Governor Dan Moody. The interview includes reminiscences of her husband's political career, the Al Smith campaign of 1928, the Stevenson-Johnson senatorial race of 1948, and excerpts from her Mansion Diary.
Date:
August 16, 1968
Creator:
Gantt, Fred & Moody, Daniel
Object Type:
Book
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with O. J. Curry, March 29, 1979
Interview with Dr. O. J. Curry from Santa Anna, Texas, the first dean of the School of Business at NTSU. Curry discusses his family history, childhood, education, becoming a teacher and high school principal, his marriage, getting his doctorate, the Great Depression, his time at the University of Arkansas and other institutions, his work with the petroleum industry during World War II, coming to NTSU, building the School Business, much about his tenure as dean, and his thoughts on business and education.
Date:
March 29, 1979
Creator:
Jenkins, Floyd
Object Type:
Book
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interviews with Ed Gossett, June-August 1969
Interview with Judge Ed Gossett, judge of the Criminal District Court in Dallas, Texas. In the first interview, Gossett discusses his childhood in Louisana and Texas, his undergraduate education at the University of Texas at Austin, his time as a lawyer and as district attorney for the 46th judicial district, and his election to Congress in 1938. The second interview includes Gossett's discussion of his tenure as a Congressman.
Date:
1969-06/1969-08
Creator:
Kamp, H. W. & Gossett, Ed Lee, 1902-1990
Object Type:
Book
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Bullock Hyder, May 12, 1966
Interview with Tom Bullock Hyder, a Democratic Texas State Legislator from Denton, Texas. Hyder recounts his time in state government from 1928 to about 1940, discussing lobbying, the growth of the state's industries, liquor laws, state education, his relations with various prominent state figures and politicians, campaigns, and other topics.
Date:
May 12, 1966
Creator:
Kamp, H. W. & Hyder, Bullock
Object Type:
Book
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Alonzo W. Jamison, July 26, 1967
Interview with former Democratic member of the Texas House of Representatives Alonzo W. Jamison, a college professor and farmer-stockman from Denton, Texas. The interview includes Jamison's experiences and personal views on the Sixtieth Legislature and activities on the House Education Committee.
Date:
October 31, 1967
Creator:
Kamp, H. W. & Jamison, Alonzo W.
Object Type:
Book
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Alonzo W. Jamison, July 30, 1968
Interview with Alonzo W. Jamison, a former Democratic member of the Texas House of Representatives from Denton, Texas. The interview includes Jamison's experiences as a member of the Special Session of the Sixtieth Legislature. It also includes his personal views on appropriations, revenue bills, the budget-making process, the legislature's relationship with Governor John Connally, liquor legislation, and urban-rural conflict.
Date:
February 6, 1970
Creator:
Kamp, H. W. & Jamison, Alonzo W.
Object Type:
Book
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Martin L. Allday, October 8, 1994
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Interview with Martin L. Allday, an Army WWII veteran from Austin, Texas. Allday discusses his experiences at the Battle of Okinawa, including being drafted and basic training, transiting the Pacific, assignment to the 96th Infantry Division and arrival on Okinawa, events of the fighting on the Shuri Line at Zebra Hill, being wounded, evacuation and recovery, returning to Okinawa, clean-up operations, souvenirs, and adjustment to civilian life. An appendix includes a letter typed by Allday for a panel discussion of the battle, a map of the battle from "The Second World War: a Complete History" by Martin Gilbert, a veteran's questionnaire from the Admiral Nimitz Museum he filled out, and a one-page biography.
Date:
October 8, 1994
Creator:
Marcello, Ronald E. & Allday, Martin L.
Object Type:
Book
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Albert B. Block, April 27, 1990
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Interview with Albert B. Block, a United States Navy veteran from Yorktown, Texas, regarding his experiences and memories of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor of December 7, 1941 while aboard the battleship USS West Virginia.
Date:
April 27, 1990
Creator:
Marcello, Ronald E. & Block, Albert B.
Object Type:
Book
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with James A. Blocklinger, April 22, 1994
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Interview with James Blocklinger, a Navy veteran, concerning his experiences aboard the heavy minelayer USS Oglala during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
Date:
April 22, 1994
Creator:
Marcello, Ronald E. & Blocklinger, James A.
Object Type:
Text
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with James Bolar, April 22, 1988
Interview with James Bolar, a United States Navy veteran from Illinois, regarding his experiences and memories of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor of December 7, 1941 while aboard the minelaying flagship USS Oglala.
Date:
April 22, 1988
Creator:
Marcello, Ronald E. & Bolar, James M.
Object Type:
Book
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with W. E. Boyd, May 14, 1982
Interview with W. E. Boyd, a United States Army veteran from Blooming Grove, Texas, regarding his recollections and experiences during the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor of 1941 while stationed at Schofield Barracks as a member of Company C, 3rd Engineers.
Date:
May 14, 1982
Creator:
Marcello, Ronald E. & Boyd, W. E.
Object Type:
Book
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Isaac Breedlove, April 26, 1986
Interview with Isaac Breedlove, a United States Army veteran from Sylacauga, Alabama, regarding his experiences and memories of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor of December 7, 1941 while stationed at Schofield Barracks as a member of Company I, 35th Infantry, 25th Division.
Date:
April 26, 1986
Creator:
Marcello, Ronald E. & Breedlove, Isaac D.
Object Type:
Book
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Jack Brown, April 23, 1988
Interview with Jack Brown, a United States Navy veteran from Waco, Texas, regarding his experiences and memories of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor of December 7, 1941 while stationed at the Marine Barracks there.
Date:
April 23, 1988
Creator:
Marcello, Ronald E. & Brown, Jack
Object Type:
Book
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Ben Bynum, September 22, 1971
Interview with Ben Bynum, a public relations consultant and a Democratic member of the Texas House of Representatives from Amarillo. Bynum shares his experiences and personal views as a member of the Regular and First Special Sessions of the Sixty-second Legislature. He also discusses revenue bills, the corporate profits tax, the Sharpstown stock-fraud scandal, legislative ethics, the "Dirty Thirty", appropriations, redistricting, and his personal legislation.
Date:
September 22, 1971
Creator:
Marcello, Ronald E. & Bynum, Ben
Object Type:
Book
System:
The UNT Digital Library