Oral History Interview with Sam Hayes, March 4, 1993

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Interview with Sam Hayes, a veteran of the Civilian Conservation Corps from Groveton, Texas. Hayes talks about his childhood, experiences during the Great Depression, and experiences joining and serving the Civilian Conservation Corps.
Date: March 4, 1993
Creator: Hodges, Ann & Hayes, Sam
System: The UNT Digital Library

Oral History Interview with R. A. Wolfe, March 18, 1994

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Interview with R.A. Wolfe concerning his experiences during and after his employment in the Civilian Conservation Corps during the Great Depression. Wolfe worked at camps in Waxahachie, Texas (Company 878) and Dallas, Texas (Company 2896).
Date: March 18, 1994
Creator: Gonzalez, Linda Ott & Wolfe, R. A.
System: The UNT Digital Library

Oral History Interview with Dora VeLora Harrell, March 12, 1994

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Interview with Dora VeLora Harrell about her recollections of growing up in Texarkana, Texas. Harrell discusses her education, local industries, church activities, social clubs and fraternal organizations, and women's issues.
Date: March 12, 1994
Creator: Rowe, Beverly & Harrell, Dora VeLora
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Oral History Interview with Carlene B. Feild, March 17, 1993

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Interview with Carlene Feild concerning her recollections of the Crater of Diamonds and diamond mining around Murfreesboro, Arkansas.
Date: March 17, 1993
Creator: Henderson, John C. & Feild, Carlene B.
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Oral History Interview with Lucretia Greene, March 26, 1994

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Interview with Lucretia Greene about her experiences as an employee of the Lone Star Army Ammunition Plant in Texarkana, Texas during World War II. Greene discusses the hiring procedures, the job assignments, and the relationships between male and female workers.
Date: March 26, 1994
Creator: Brantley, Janet G. & Greene, Lucretia
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Oral History Interview with Zelle Holman Moore and Marguerite Holman Magee, March 10, 1994

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Interview with Marguerite Magee and Zelle Moore, sisters, about their recollections of life in Texarkana, Texas. Magee and Moore discuss their parents, Junior Service League, family entertainment, women's suffrage and political activities, church activities, the Current Topic Club, the Wednesday Music Club, and women's household chores.
Date: March 10, 1994
Creator: Rowe, Beverly; Moore, Zelle Holman & Magee, Marguerite Holman
System: The UNT Digital Library

Oral History Interview with Ben F. Yung, Jr., March 2, 1993

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Interview with Ben F. Yung, a veteran of the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) from Ranger, Texas. The interview covers his childhood, his decisions leading to joining the CCC, his experiences there, and his experiences reenlisting with the CCC.
Date: March 2, 1993
Creator: McCrain, James B. & Yung, Ben F., Jr.
System: The UNT Digital Library

Oral History Interview with Bert Boydstun, March 3, 1993

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Interview with Bert Boydstun concerning his experiences while employed by the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) during the Great Depression. Boydstun worked at camps in Lubbock, Texas (Company 3820) and Palisade, Colorado. Interview includes Boydstun's experiences leading up to joining the CCC.
Date: March 3, 1993
Creator: Henderson, John & Boydstun, Bert
System: The UNT Digital Library

Oral History Interview with Ruby Cole and Alma Clark, March 28, 2017

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Audio log for a recording of an interview with Ruby Cole and Alma Clark for the Denton Women’s Interracial Fellowship Oral History Project. In the interview they discuss their experiences with segregation, civil rights activism, and involvement in the Denton Women's Interracial Fellowship.
Date: March 28, 2017
Creator: Elliott, Brian; Cole, Ruby & Clark, Alma
System: The UNT Digital Library

Oral History Interview with Linnie McAdams, March 2, 2017

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Audio log for a recording of an interview with Linnie McAdams, community activist, for the Denton Women’s Interracial Fellowship Oral History Project. In the interview McAdams talks about the contemporary state of civil rights progress; involvement in the Denton Women’s Interracial Fellowship; discrimination; poverty; Quakertown; continued community involvement; women’s rights; contemporary politics; and whiteness of black movies.
Date: March 2, 2017
Creator: Lacy, David & McAdams, Linnie
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Oral History Interview with Pat Gulley, March 1, 2017

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Audio log for a recording of an interview with community activist Pat Gulley for the Denton Women’s Interracial Fellowship Oral History Project. In the interview Gulley discusses her experiences with the black community and interracial interactions, involvement in the Denton Women's Interracial Fellowship, civil rights, and contemporary race relations.
Date: March 1, 2017
Creator: Huebner, Andrew & Gulley, Pat
System: The UNT Digital Library

Oral History Interview with Norman F. Williams, March 16, 1993

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Interview with Norman Williams, a geologist, concerning his recollections of the Crater of Diamonds and diamond mining around Murfreesboro, Arkansas, as well as the activities of De Beers.
Date: March 16, 1993
Creator: Henderson, John C. & Williams, Norman F.
System: The UNT Digital Library

Oral History Interview with Ken W. Duncan, March 9, 1994

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Interview with Ken Duncan concerning his experiences during and after his employment in the Civilian Conservation Corps during the Great Depression. Duncan worked at camps in Redvale, Colorado (Company 3844) and Paradox Valley, Colorado.
Date: March 9, 1994
Creator: Gonzalez, Linda Ott & Duncan, Ken W.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Walter H. Hodgson, March 10, 1977 (open access)

Oral History Interview with Walter H. Hodgson, March 10, 1977

Interview with Walter Hodgson, a retired university professor-administrator, concerning his recollections of the formation of the jazz program at North Texas State College while dean of the School of Music.
Date: March 10, 1977
Creator: Wysocki, Kathy & Hodgson, Walter H.
System: The UNT Digital Library

Oral History Interview with Mei T. Nakano, March 18, 1995

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Interview with Mei Nakano, a college professor, concerning her experiences as a Japanese-American internee at the Amache, Colorado, internment camp during World War II. Nakano discusses her childhood experiences with bigotry in rural Colorado, the evacuation from Los Angeles to Amache in September of 1942, camp life, her marriage in the camp, resettlement in Chicago, and the lasting impressions of the internment experience.
Date: March 18, 1995
Creator: Marcello, Ronald E. & Nakano, Mei Takaya
System: The UNT Digital Library

Oral History Interview with Ernest Gordon, March 19, 1995

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Interview with Ernest Gordon. Gordon was born in Scotland and joined the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders in 1939 at Stirling Castle. He was sent to Singapore in January 1940 before the Japanese invaded. Gordon recalls defending the Malay Peninsula starting in January 1942. Gordon was the last to go over the causeway into Singapore before it was destroyed. As Singapore fell, Gordon escaped to Sumatra. When Sumatra fell, Gordon escaped on a sailboat but was captured asea and sent back to Singapore where he entered Changi. He was sent north to build the Death Railway. He describes the conditions along the railway and the work environment.
Date: March 19, 1995
Creator: Byrd, Richard W. & Gordon, Ernest
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Oral History Interview with Dorothy Still Danner, March 19, 1995

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interview with Dorothy Still Danner. Danner graduated from nursing school in Los Angeles in 1935. In 1939, she applied and was accepted as a nurse in the Navy. After a while, she received orders for the Philippines and arrived in early 1940 on a two-year assignment. Danner recalls the idyllic setting prior to the war before describing activities just after the Japanese invasion. She was stationed at a hospital at Sangley Point near Cavite in Luzon, Philippines. She was captured by the Japanese and interned at Santo Tomas starting in March 1942. Sometime in 1943, she was sent to Los Banos.
Date: March 19, 1995
Creator: Byrd, Richard W. & Danner, Dorothy Still
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Oral History Interview with Ken Towery, March 19, 1995

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Interview with Ken Towery. Towery joined the Army in early 1941 and was sent to Corregidor to join a coast artillery unit. He recalls several details about life under siege at Corregidor before he was captured by the Japanese and taken to Cabanatuan. He left the Philippines later that year and was taken to China. Towery shares his opinions about being a POW as well as several anecdotes. He also comments on being liberated by Russians and how the Russians and Chinese communists cooperated right after the war. When he was liberated, Towery was put aboard a hospital ship at Port Arthur.
Date: March 19, 1995
Creator: Byrd, Richard W. & Towery, R. Ken
System: The UNT Digital Library

Oral History Interview with Bunichi Ohtsuka, March 18, 1995

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Interview with Bunichi Ohtsuka, a veteran of the Imperial Japanese Air Force, concerning his experiences while training to become a kamikaze pilot in 1945.
Date: March 18, 1995
Creator: Byrd, Richard W. & Ohtsuka, Bunichi
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Oral History Interview with George L. McColm, March 18, 1995

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Interview with George McColm, a Navy veteran and an agricultural expert, concerning his experiences in the Pacific Theater during World War II. McColm discusses his education at Kansas State College, his experiences in agricultural marketing research, his employment with the Production Marketing Administration of the Agricultural Adjustment Administration, his employment at Topaz Relocation Center for Japanese Americans (1942-1944), his induction into the U.S. Navy (1944), his role in planning for the invasion of the Japanese home islands (1945), and his role in writing Japanese land reform laws during postwar American occupation. Appendix includes photocopies of various biographical documents concerning George McComb and his career in the U.S. Navy and in agriculture.
Date: March 18, 1995
Creator: Byrd, Richard W. & McColm, George L.
System: The UNT Digital Library

Oral History Interview with Roy M. Gee, March 24, 1997

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Interview with Roy M. Gee, a Navy veteran, concerning his experiences aboard the cruiser USS Phoenix during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
Date: March 24, 1997
Creator: Marcello, Ronald E. & Gee, Roy M.
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Oral History Interview with Jack Callaway, March 28, 1997

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Interview with Jack Callaway, a Navy veteran, concerning his experiences aboard the auxiliary supply vessel USS Argonne during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. Appendix includes a photocopy of a newspaper article from the December 7, 1996 edition of the Lewisville Leader titled, "Pearl Harbor survivor recalls 'day of infamy'" by Dusty Rainbolt [2 leaves].
Date: March 28, 1997
Creator: Marcello, Ronald E. & Callaway, Jack
System: The UNT Digital Library