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[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
Prisoners of War in Texas During World War II (open access)

Prisoners of War in Texas During World War II

This study analyzes the prisoner of war program in Texas and evaluates the Army's role in carrying out this assignment. Additional questions were, how were POWs treated? What problems did they create? How did civilians react to the presence of 50,000 prisoners?
Date: May 1980
Creator: Walker, Richard Paul
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
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 Clip: TX - Europe] captions transcript

[News Clip: TX - Europe]

Video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story. This story aired at 6pm.
Date: November 14, 1989
Creator: KXAS-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Video
System: The UNT Digital Library
[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
[Clipping: "Special Souvenir Edition Sweetwater Reporter", November 1990] (open access)

[Clipping: "Special Souvenir Edition Sweetwater Reporter", November 1990]

November 1990 issue of the Sweetwater Reporter of significant historical events from the 20th century.
Date: November 1990
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Clipping
System: The Portal to Texas History

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
Erinnerung (open access)

Erinnerung

Collection of published poems by various authors.
Date: unknown
Creator: Hoffmann, Heffter & Co.
Object Type: Pamphlet
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Document describing an agreement between Henri Castro, Ferdinand Louis Huth, and Huth & Co., October 5, 1843, English translation] (open access)

[Document describing an agreement between Henri Castro, Ferdinand Louis Huth, and Huth & Co., October 5, 1843, English translation]

Agreement between Henri Castro in Paris, Ferdinand Louis Huth and Huth & Co. in Neufreystaedt, in which they set forth the terms of their joint venture. Namely, that Ferdinand Louis Huth will travel to Texas and conduct trade business there for at least two years. Signed by Hr. Castro, Huth & Co. and Louis Huth, Jr. in Paris and Neufreystaedt on October 5, 1843. Written in English.
Date: October 5, 1843
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Legal Document
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Balance sheet showing financial transactions relating to Henri Castro, December 31, 1846] (open access)

[Balance sheet showing financial transactions relating to Henri Castro, December 31, 1846]

Balance sheet showing financial transactions relating to [Henri Castro].
Date: December 31, 1846
Creator: Huth, Louis
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Elisabet Ney, Sculptor (open access)

Elisabet Ney, Sculptor

Biography about the sculptor, Elisabet Ney.
Date: 1916
Creator: Taylor, Bride Neill
Object Type: Book
System: The Portal to Texas History
[News Script: 6PM Sports update] (open access)

[News Script: 6PM Sports update]

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story.
Date: August 17, 1970, 6:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Script
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: 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 Clip: E. German Doctor] captions transcript

[News Clip: E. German Doctor]

Video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story.
Date: October 2, 1990, 6:00 p.m.
Creator: KXAS-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Video
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Clip: Berlin Wall] captions transcript

[News Clip: Berlin Wall]

Video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story.
Date: November 9, 1990, 5:00 p.m.
Creator: KXAS-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Video
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Clip: Wall - Dallas] captions transcript

[News Clip: Wall - Dallas]

B-roll video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story.
Date: November 9, 1990, 10:00 p.m.
Creator: KXAS-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Video
System: The UNT Digital Library

Oral History Interview with Lisa Jane Lachance-Skier, March 14, 2013

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Interview with Lisa Jane Lachance-Skier, a Air Force veteran from Phoenix, Arizona. Lachance-Skier discusses growing up, participating in Junior ROTC, enlisting in the Air Force in 1976, experiences as a woman in a newly integrated Air Force, sexual harassment and assault in the military, service in England, attending ROTC and becoming an officer, her marriage, service in Germany, her work during the Gulf War, being forced out as part of a personnel drawdown, transitioning to the civilian world and her post-Air Force career, her involvement in the Grace After Fire program for assisting female veterans, problems facing female veterans and lack of support, the 2014 lifting of the combat ban on women in the US armed forces, the WASPs, and advice for servicewomen. In appendix is a summary of Lachance-Skier's USAF career, three photos of her Meritorious Service Medal certificates, and a Grace After Fire booklet.
Date: March 14, 2013
Creator: Hedrick, Amy & Lachance-Skier, Lisa Jane
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library

Oral History Interview with William P. Schiff, January 12, 1990

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Interview with William Schiff, a Holocaust survivor from Kraków, Poland. Schiff discusses his family, antisemitism before the war, the invasion of Poland, being put into forced labor by the Germans and Poles, the ghetto and survival there, getting married, experiences in internment at Kraków-Płaszów, Auschwitz, Gross-Rosen, and Buchenwald concentration camps, liberation, returning to Kraków and finding his wife, and life afterwards.
Date: January 12, 1990
Creator: Rosen, Keith & Schiff, William P.
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 Harold Salfen, February 14, 2000

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Interview with Harold Salfen, a Army Air Force WWII veteran from O'Fallon, Missouri. Salfen discusses his hometown and family background, his childhood and education, working in St. Louis, attending the University of Missouri, joining the Army Air Force and training, operating a ground radar in the European Theater, liberating Buchenwald Concentration Camp, the end of the war, and returning home. In appendix is a biography/resumé of Salfen's.
Date: February 14, 2000
Creator: Alexander, William J. & Salfen, Harold
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library
[Letter from June Yates to Cal Yates] (open access)

[Letter from June Yates to Cal Yates]

Letter from June Yates to Cal describing his travels across Germany after the war was over. June notes the destruction that the bombs inflicted on some of the large cities and testifies for the accuracy of the horror stories told from the concentration camps; they are still very busy as they are the only hospital for miles.
Date: 1945-05-21~
Creator: Yates, June
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Interview with Dr. Odo Turowski, May 28, 1991 captions transcript

Interview with Dr. Odo Turowski, May 28, 1991

Interview with Dr. Odo Turowski, consultant for businesses in Eastern Europe. In the interview, Dr. Turowski discusses his life growing up in east Germany, escaping to west Germany, and the reunification of his country after the fall of the Berlin Wall.
Date: May 28, 1991
Creator: Turowski, Odo & McCaleb, Gary
Object Type: Video
System: The Portal to Texas History
Interview with Gottfried Reichel, 1985 captions transcript

Interview with Gottfried Reichel, 1985

Interview with Gottfried Reichel, a radio evangelist from Munich, Germany. In the interview, Reichel discusses growing up in Germany, including being a part of the Hitler Youth as a boy, and Germany's process of recovering after World War II.
Date: 1985
Creator: Reichel, Gottfried & McCaleb, Gary
Object Type: Video
System: The Portal to Texas History