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Autobiographical Narrative of Leonard A. Charpentier, June 18, 1999

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Narrative of Dr. Leonard A. Charpentier. The narrative includes a monologue of Charpentier's experiences as a P-47 fighter pilot in the European Theater during World War II. Charpentier talks about basic training, flight training, fighter pilot training, his assignment to the 86th Fighter Squadron on Corsica, the P-47 Thunderbolt, various missions, his being shot down on a mission over southern France and being captured, the treatment of his wounds at a German field hospital, and his postwar medical career.
Date: June 18, 1999
Creator: Charpentier, Leonard A.
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library

Oral History Interview with A. C. Tipton, December 16, 1995, No. 2

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Interview with A.C. Tipton, a Navy veteran, concerning his experiences aboard the light cruiser USS Honolulu during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
Date: December 16, 1995
Creator: Marcello, Ronald E. & Tipton, A. C.
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with A. E. Miller, May 14, 1982 (open access)

Oral History Interview with A. E. Miller, May 14, 1982

Interview with A. E. Miller, a United States Navy veteran from Smithville, Texas. Miller recollects his experiences aboard the cruiser the USS Helena during the Japanese attack there and on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
Date: May 14, 1982
Creator: Marcello, Ronald E. & Miller, A. E.
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with A. R. Schwartz, May 6, 1970 (open access)

Oral History Interview with A. R. Schwartz, May 6, 1970

Interview with former Democratic Texas Senator A. R. Schwartz, an attorney from Galveston, Texas. The interview includes Schwartz's experiences as a member of the Sixty-first Legislature, as well as his personal views on issues such as one-year versus two-year budgets, revenue bills, welfare spending, constitutional revisions, urban-rural conflicts, minimum wages for migrant workers, education legislation, unrest on college campuses, and personal legislation. The former Senator's comments about Governors John Connally and Preston Smith are also included in the interview.
Date: February 8, 1971
Creator: Marcello, Ronald E. & Schwartz, Aaron Robert, 1926-
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with A. R. Schwartz, November 9, 1971 (open access)

Oral History Interview with A. R. Schwartz, November 9, 1971

Interview with Texas State Senator A. R. "Babe" Schwartz regarding his time during the regular and first special session of the 62nd Texas Legislature. Specifically, the struggle over the corporate profits tax.
Date: November 9, 1971
Creator: Marcello, Ronald E. & Schwartz, A. R.
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with A. R. Schwartz, November 27, 1967 (open access)

Oral History Interview with A. R. Schwartz, November 27, 1967

Interview with A. R. Schwartz, an attorney and a Democratic member of the Texas Senate from Galveston. He discusses his experiences and personal views as a member of the Sixtieth Legislature.
Date: November 27, 1967
Creator: Calvert, Robert, 1922- & Schwartz, Aaron Robert, 1926-
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 A. W. Dupree, July 23-August 16, 1990

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Interview with A. W. Dupree Jr., resident of Hamilton Park neighborhood in Dallas, Texas, 1966-90. Dupree discusses his youth in Dallas; service in U.S. military in World War II; musical career; decision to buy home in Hamilton Park and experiences as a resident; home improvements; church activities; desegregation of Hamilton Park School; Pacesetter; commercial encroachment; the “Buy Out.”
Date: 1990-07-23/1990-08-16
Creator: Wilson, William & Dupree, A. W., Jr.
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with A. Y. Allee, February 21, 1969 (open access)

Oral History Interview with A. Y. Allee, February 21, 1969

Interview with Captain A. Y. Allee, a member of the Texas Rangers "Company D". In the interview, Captain Allee explains what these organizations are, and why they are significant. He discusses some specific details of his job, as well as Mexican-American relations that he has observed. Captain Allee describes his version of what happened at the Crystal City Incident.
Date: February 21, 1969
Creator: Cuellar, Robert & Allee, A. Y.
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library

Oral History Interview with Abe C. Cooper, April 3, 2006

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Interview with Abe C. Cooper, African-American alumnus of North Texas State University. The interview includes Cooper's personal experiences about childhood and early adulthood in Dallas, Texas, attending all-black schools, and enrolling at North Texas State College in 1958. Cooper speaks about the adjustments required for attending school in an integrated setting, boarding with African-American families in the "Shack Town" neighborhood of Denton, and the comparative experiences with students and faculty in the Schools of Engineering and Education.
Date: April 3, 2006
Creator: Hegi, Benjamin P. & Cooper, Abe C.
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library

Oral History Interview with Ada Fabiana Duque, October 20, 2012

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Interview with Ada Fabiana Duque, Colombian-born immigrant to Rockwall, Texas, for the DFW Metroplex Immigrants Oral History Project. The interview includes Duque's family background and the risks that accompanied being financially successful in Colombia during the Colombian civil war, the guerrilla violence in Colombia in the 1980s and 1990s, her experience as an exchange student to Illinois in 1992, her expectations about the U.S., education and employment in food engineering, the process of acquiring citizenship through political asylum, and her opinions about U.S. immigration policy and cultural assimilation, as well as reflections on American identity.
Date: October 20, 2012
Creator: Bundschuh, Molly & Duque, Ada Fabiana
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library

Oral History Interview with Adolph C. Allen, February 25, 1993

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Interview with Adolph Allen from Colfax, Louisiana concerning his experiences while employed by the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) during the Great Depression as well as his childhood and experiences leading up to joining the CCC. Allen worked at a camp in New Augusta, Mississippi (Company 5415).
Date: February 25, 1993
Creator: Henley, Shelly & Allen, Adolph C.
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library

Oral History Interview with Adrienne Griffen, August 12, 2022

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Interview with Adrienne Griffen, the Executive Director of the Maternal Mental Health Leadership Alliance from Arlington, Virginia. Griffen discusses her family, time as an intelligence officer in the United States Navy, education, her own experience with postpartum depression, becoming an advocate, Postpartum Support International, other leaders and organizations in her field, postpartum psychosis, statistics, and treatments.
Date: August 12, 2022
Creator: Moran, Rachel Louise & Griffen, Adrienne
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library

Oral History Interview with Al J. Hunt, February 24, 1993

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Interview with Al J. Hunt, a former member of the Civilian Conservation Corps from Limestone County, Texas, regarding his experiences and memories of participating in the CCC during the Great Depression.
Date: February 24, 1993
Creator: Henley, Shelly & Hunt, Al J.
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library

Oral History Interview with Alan A. Fouts, December 6, 2001

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Interview with Navy veteran Alan A. Fouts. The interview includes Fouts' personal experiences while assigned to the Submarine Base during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, and his subsequent service aboard the submarine USS Pogy in the Pacific Theater during World War II.
Date: December 6, 2001
Creator: Alexander, William J. & Fouts, Alan A., 1920-
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library

Oral History Interview with Alan Lee Briscoe, November 22, 2006

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Interview with Alan Lee Briscoe, NASA engineer, as part of the Skylab Oral History Project. The interview includes Briscoe's personal experiences about education at Texas A&M University and South Texas School of Law, joining NASA, working in flight control operations and communications support on the Apollo program, and problem-solving on Skylab missions. Briscoe also speaks about the Skylab "wet workshop," the monotony inherit in Skylab work-shift schedules and efforts to break it, and Skylab's contributions to space exploration.
Date: November 22, 2006
Creator: Johnson, Michael & Briscoe, Alan Lee
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library

Oral History Interview with Alan Taniguchi, March 18, 1995

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Interview with Alan Taniguchi, former Dean of Architecture at UT-Austin and a Japanese-American internee during WWII, from Brentwood, California. Taniguchi discusses his family and childhood, experiences of racism, the attack on Pearl Harbor and its effects, having his home raided by the FBI, his father's detention and that of Japanese community leaders, preparing for internment, moving to the Gila Relocation Camp in Arizona, life there, leaving the camp for resettlement in Detroit, and life afterwards.
Date: March 18, 1995
Creator: Marcello, Ronald E. & Taniguchi, Alan
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 Albert B. Grubbs, February 25,1993

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Interview with Albert Grubbs, Jr. from Dawson, Texas concerning his experiences while employed by the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) during the Great Depression as well as his childhood and his experiences leading up to joining the CCC. Grubbs worked at camps in Lubbock, Texas (Company 3820) and Carlsbad, New Mexico.
Date: February 25, 1993
Creator: Ferguson, James & Grubbs, Albert B., Jr.
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library

Oral History Interview with Albert B. Thorn, July 25, 1990

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Interview with Albert Thorn concerning his experiences before, during, and after his employment in the Civilian Conservation Corps during the Great Depression. Thorn worked at camps in Lake Arthur, New Mexico (Company 2842) and Carlsbad, New Mexico (Company 2842).
Date: July 25, 1990
Creator: Marcello, Ronald E. & Thorn, Albert B.
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library

Oral History Interview with Albert Boggs, October 11, 1993

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Interview with Albert Boggs, a former member of the Civilian Conservation Corps from Mixon, Oklahoma. Boggs discusses his family life, farming, struggles during the Depression, joining the CCC, his first assignment to a camp at Jacksonville, TX, education, camp life and organization, work, fights in camp, transfer to a camp in Waxahachie, being an assistant leader, building bridges, the kinds of people who worked the camp, and some general reflections. In appendix are Boggs' discharge papers and a newsletter commemorating CCC veterans.
Date: October 11, 1993
Creator: Hudson, Linda & Boggs, Albert
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Albert E. Kennedy, April 15, 1987 (open access)

Oral History Interview with Albert E. Kennedy, April 15, 1987

Interview with Albert E. Kennedy, a United States Navy veteran from East Prairie, Missouri, regarding his experiences and memories as a prisoner-of-war of the Japanese after surviving the wreck of the USS Houston during World War II.
Date: April 15, 1987
Creator: Marcello, Ronald E. & Kennedy, Albert E.
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library

Oral History Interview with Albert Kamenicky, April 27, 1990

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Interview with Albert Kamenicky, a United States Navy veteran from Rogers, Texas, regarding his experiences and memories of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor of December 7, 1941 while aboard the cruiser USS Phoenix.
Date: April 27, 1990
Creator: Marcello, Ronald E. & Kamenicky, Albert
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library

Oral History Interview with Alessandro Buccilli, April 6, 2011

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Interview with Italian immigrant Alessandro Buccilli, Director of Marketing and Sales Administration for Peterbilt Motors Company, as part of the DFW Metroplex Immigrants Oral History Project. Buccilli discusses his family background in Rome, Italy, his education, employment in the U.S., the shifts in perceptions about Italy and the U.S., social responsibility, learning English, his perspectives on the importance of language and culture, raising American children, and his legacy. The interview also includes Buccilli's comparisons of opportunities, bureaucracy, culture, and national immigration debates in Italy and the U.S.
Date: April 6, 2011
Creator: Alexander, Matthew & Buccilli, Alessandro
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library