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Oral History Interview with William J. Bates, February 7, 2001
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Interview with Navy veteran William J. Bates including personal experiences about the Pacific Theater during World War II, youth and education, the Navy Aviation Cadet Program, flight training, leaving naval aviation and attending Midshipman's School, being assigned to APc-21, operations off the coast of New Guinea with the VII Amphibious Force, providing escort duty for LCTs during assaults along the coast of New Guinea, the sinking of APc-21 by Japanese planes off New Britain Island, recuperating in New Guinea, returning to the States and being assigned to ATR-22, transferring to fleet tug ARA-182 as commanding officer, having convoy duty in the South Pacific, riding out a typhoon, disposing of Navy equipment after the war, and returning to the States.
Date:
February 7, 2001
Creator:
Alexander, William J. & Bates, William J.
Object Type:
Book
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The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with LeRoy Ellis Cox, February 5, 2004
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Interview with LeRoy Ellis Cox. The interview includes Cox's personal experiences about childhood and early adulthood in Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, and Colorado, World War-II-era Army Air Corps training in armaments and electronics, stateside service in the 303rd Bomb Group of the Eighth Air Force, aviation cadet training, serving as a B-25 instructor pilot, and as a DC-3 tow pilot for the glider program.
Date:
February 5, 2004
Creator:
Alexander, William J. & Cox, LeRoy E., 1919-
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Book
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The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Douglas R. Crawford, February 25, 2004
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Interview with Air Force veteran Douglas R. "Roy" Crawford. The interview includes Crawford's personal experiences about early family life, joining the U.S. Army Air Forces, training as a bulldozer operator, removing radioactive debris from Hiroshima, training as a radar operator at Edwards Air Force Base, California, and working as the radar tracker when Major Chuck Yeager broke the sound barrier in the Bell X-1 on October 19, 1947. Additionally, Crawford talks about his assignments to Clark Air Force Base, Philippines, and Korea, as a forward air observer, his role as an airborne radar operator during the Bay of Pigs invasion and the Cuban Missile Crisis, his various activities with the NASA Space Program, and clandestine missions with the CIA and Air America over Cambodia during the Vietnam War.
Date:
February 25, 2004
Creator:
Alexander, William J. & Crawford, Douglas R., 1929-
Object Type:
Book
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The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Richard Donley, February 22, 1997
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Interview with Navy veteran Richard Donley. The interview includes Donley's personal experiences about the Mediterranean Theater during World War II, boot camp, Fleet Torpedo School, encounters with German "F-lighter" armed barges and E-boats, various assignments, and combat against enemy destroyers. Donley also talks about screening operations for the invasions of Sicily and Salerno, operations along the coasts of northern Italy and southern France and the interdiction of German barge traffic, torpedo problems, commando and intelligence operations, returning to the States, his reassignment to the Motor Torpedo Boats Training Center, and transferring to Samar, Philippines.
Date:
February 22, 1997
Creator:
Alexander, William J. & Donley, Richard
Object Type:
Book
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The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Roy D. Much, February 3, 1999
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Transcript of an interview with Roy D. Much, Army veteran (987th Field Artillery Battalion), concerning his experiences in the European Theater during World War II. Much discusses his pre-war education and employment; basic training in the artillery, Camp Bowie, Brownwood, Texas, 1942; and general comments about his experiences at Normandy, Saint-Lô, liberation of Paris, Huertgen Forest, Remagen Bridge, Battle of the Bulge, and the liberation of Czechoslovakia.
Date:
February 3, 1999
Creator:
Alexander, William J. & Much, Roy D.
Object Type:
Book
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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
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The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Nick Sanchez, February 16, 1999
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Interview with Nick Sanchez, a Army Air Force WWII veteran from Laredo, Texas. Sanchez discusses working in radio when the war began, becoming a radio technician in the Army Air Force, deployment to India and operations there, going missing in China after surviving a plane crash, and the end of the war. In appendix are an autobiographical sketch of Sanchez's service, a copy of a diary recording his experience "bailing-out," and his official military statement of the event.
Date:
February 16, 1999
Creator:
Alexander, William J. & Sanchez, Nick
Object Type:
Book
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The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Dave C. Sanford, February 25, 1999
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Interview with Dave C. Sanford, a Army WWII veteran from Carter, South Dakota, who served as a mortarman in the 37th Infantry Division. Sanford discusses growing up, his experiences in the Great Depression, being drafted and training, the New Georgia, Guadalcanal, Bougainville, and Philippine campaigns, being wounded and discharged, and life afterwards.
Date:
February 25, 1999
Creator:
Alexander, William J. & Sanford, Dave C.
Object Type:
Book
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Christopher Perry Nichols, February 22, 2003
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Interview with Christopher Perry Nichols, stage director, concerning his recollections of his father, the artist Perry Nichols.
Date:
February 22, 2003
Creator:
Balsley, Gerald & Nichols, Christopher P.
Object Type:
Book
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The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Donald Stanley Vogel, February 12, 2003
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Interview with Donald Stanley Vogel, artist and art dealer, concerning his recollections concerning painter Perry Nichols. He discusses his early years as a painter after coming to Dallas from Chicago, 1942; comments about the "Dallas Nine"; building a clientele for his paintings; his relationship with John Rosenfield, the arts and music critic for the Dallas Morning News; his business partnership with Betty McLean in the Betty McLean Art Gallery, 1951-54; his criticism of Nichols's work habits; comments about Nichols's personal life; his role in Nichols's mural painted for the Belo Corporation; his critique of the Belo mural; the importance of self-discipline to the successful artist.
Date:
February 12, 2003
Creator:
Balsley, Gerald & Vogel, Donald S., 1917-2004
Object Type:
Book
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The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Nipawan Teepanont, February 17, 1984
Audio interview with Nipawan Teepanont, a graduate student from Thailand studying education at North Texas State University. Teepanont discusses his background, comparisons between education in Thailand and the United States, adjusting, the international community at the university, and his job.
Date:
February 17, 1984
Creator:
Bohlcke, Diane & Teepanont, Nipawan
Object Type:
Book
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The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Charles Goff, February 1, 1994
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Interview with Charles Goff about his experiences as an employee of the Lone Star Army Ammunition Plant in Texarkana, Texas during World War II and the postwar years. Goff discusses his move from Akron, Ohio, the construction of the plant, safety procedures, bond drives, housing and transportation adjustments, and the social and economic effects on Texarkana. Appendix includes a photocopy of a drawing of a "rim to be shellacked" and a "rim" [1 leaf].
Date:
February 1, 1994
Creator:
Brantley, Janet G. & Goff, Charles
Object Type:
Book
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with John L. Ruddick, February 24,1993
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Interview with John Ruddick concerning his experiences while employed by the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) during the Great Depression. Ruddick worked at a camp in Brownwood, Texas (Company 849). Appendix includes a photocopy of Ruddick's CCC Enrollee's Record of Training and Experience. Interview includes information on Ruddick's parents as well as his life before joining the CCC and an appendix.
Date:
February 24, 1993
Creator:
Brantley, Janet G. & Ruddick, John L.
Object Type:
Book
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Burnette Sain, February 24, 1993
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Interview with Burnette Sain, a former member of the Civilian Conservation Corps from Bolivar, Tennessee. Sain discusses his family and farming background, life during the Great Depression, and work at a CCC camp in Bristol, Tennessee,
Date:
February 24, 1993
Creator:
Brantley, Janet G. & Sain, Burnette
Object Type:
Book
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The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Josephine Bermejo, February 16, 2013
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Interview with Josephine Bermejo, first generation of Bermejo women, for the Mexican American Women's Educational Experience Oral History Project. The interview includes Bermejo's recollections of schooling in Minnesota and Iowa, learning in English schools, leaving school for family obligations, and getting a GED in Fort Worth, Texas. Bermejo also talks about children's education and her thoughts on the future of Mexican American education. It includes an appendix with the Bermejo family tree.
Date:
February 16, 2013
Creator:
Bravo, Francis & Bermejo, Josephine
Object Type:
Book
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Ceclia Bermejo Hernandez, February 16, 2013
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Interview with Cecelia Hernandez, a Mexican-American resident of Fort Worth, Texas. Hernandez discusses her schooling, her family, thoughts on college and first generation students, becoming and being a parent, working at Fort Worth ISD, and encountering struggles as a Hispanic person and parent. In appendix is her family tree.
Date:
February 16, 2013
Creator:
Bravo, Francis & Bermejo-Hernandez, Cecelia
Object Type:
Book
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The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Marilyn Gibson Calhoun, February 14, 2023
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Interview with Marilyn Gibson Calhoun, a UNT graduate from Dallas, Texas. Calhoun discusses her education, family, involvement with the civil rights movement, support and community groups that formed among African-American students that were experiencing discrimination at North Texas State, her teaching career, family, going through breast cancer, the COVID-19 Pandemic, and the Remembering Black Dallas group.
Date:
February 14, 2023
Creator:
Burns, Regina L. & Calhoun, Marilyn Gibson
Object Type:
Book
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The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Billie Mohair, February 25, 1988
Interview with librarian Billie Mohair from Denton, Texas. In the interview, Mohair discusses her experiences concerning the activities of the Denton Christian Women's Inter-Racial Fellowship during the 1960s and 1970s. She also comments on coping with segregation in Denton, street paving in the African-American section of Denton, the desegregation of North Texas State College, her college experiences, her decision to join the Fellowship, and the demise of the Fellowship.
Date:
February 25, 1988
Creator:
Byrd, Richard & Mohair, Billie
Object Type:
Text
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Carol Riddlesperger, February 5, 1988
Interview with schoolteacher and community activist Carol Riddlesperger from Denton, Texas. In the interview, Riddlesperger discusses her experiences concerning the activities of the Denton Christian Women's Inter-Racial Fellowship during the 1960s and 1970s. She also comments on segregation in Denton, the desegregation of public schools and public facilities, street paving in the African-American section of Denton, her decision to run for the Denton school Board, tutoring program, and the jobs program.
Date:
February 5, 1988
Creator:
Byrd, Richard & Riddlesperger, Carol
Object Type:
Text
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Mari Collins, February 28, 2021
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Interview with Mari Collins, a resident of Fort Worth, Texas, to discuss experiences during the "Texas Blackout," the power and water outage that happened between February 14th and 18th of 2021 due to the winter storm. Collins describes how hey took their care of their pets during that time, how they interacted with their neighbors, and how they handled lack of water and electricity.
Date:
February 28, 2021
Creator:
Crittenden, Micah Carlson & Collins, Mari
Object Type:
Book
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The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Charles P. Foote, February 21, 1993
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Interview with Charles P. Foote about his experiences while employed by the Civilian Conservation Corps during the Great Depression. He discusses his childhood during the Great Depression in in Hunt County, Texas; joining the CCC; assignment to a camp at Wolfe City, Texas (Company 2899); description of camp; life in camp.
Date:
February 21, 1993
Creator:
Cubberly, Monica & Foote, Charles P.
Object Type:
Book
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The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Charles P. Foote, February 21, 1993
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Interview with Charles Foote concerning his experiences before and during his employment in the Civilian Conservation Corps during the Great Depression. Foote worked at a camp in Wolfe City, Texas (Company 2899).
Date:
February 21, 1993
Creator:
Cubberly, Monica & Foote, Charles P.
Object Type:
Book
System:
The UNT Digital Library
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 Juan Cornejo, February 21, 1969
Interview with Juan Cornejo, who is the former Mayor of Crystal City, Texas. In the interview, Mr. Cornejo gives some background information and describes his early life, education, and work. He describes how he was elected and what his accomplishments were as Mayor. Mr. Cornejo also discusses his thoughts and personal opinions on municipal elections, discrimination, the Political Association of Spanish-Speaking Organizations, and charges against Captain A. Y. Allee.
Date:
February 21, 1969
Creator:
Cuellar, Robert & Cornejo, Juan
Object Type:
Book
System:
The UNT Digital Library