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World War II Pearl Harbor Survivors Oral History Project
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World War II Prisoners of War Oral History Project
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World War II Pacific Theater (Submarine Service) Oral History Project
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The Postpartum Depression and Maternal Mental Health Oral History Project
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World War II Pearl Harbor Survivors (Navy) Oral History Project
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Caltex Oral History Project
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Green Pioneers in North Texas
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Texas Community History Oral History Project
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Texas Political History Oral History Project
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World War II Pacific Theater Oral History Project
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Oral History Interview with William Havel, April 22, 1994
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Interview with William Havel, an army veteran from Staten Island, New York. This interview recounts his experiences as an adopted child in a farm family and then as a corpsman at Tripler General Hospital during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
Date:
April 22, 1994
Creator:
Marcello, Ronald E. & Havel, William
Object Type:
Book
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Larry S. Hilliard, April 18, 1992
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Interview with Larry S. Hilliard, army veteran and nurse from Kerens, Texas. This interview looks into his experiences as a nurse in Vietnam, 1970-71. Topics include: assignment to 18th surgical Hospital, Quang Tri; his typical workday; off-duty recreation; treatment of combat casualties; equipment and blood shortages; drug problems; morale; communications with his family; leave policies; work with Vietnamese civilians; treating enemy POWs; “short-time”; lasting effects of Vietnam experience.
Date:
April 18, 1992
Creator:
Houser, Cindy & Hilliard, Larry S.
Object Type:
Book
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The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with John A. Roberts, April 27, 1999
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Interview with General John Roberts, a Air Force WWII veteran from Arkansas, who served for over twenty years with General Roger Ramey of Denton, Texas. Roberts discusses Ramey's background and his own, Army Air Corps pilot training, the start of the war and assignment under Ramey, changing commands and transition to the B-29, Curtis LeMay, the atomic bomb, postwar work, Ramey's health and death, his relationships with various figures, Douglas MacArthur and Harry Truman, the racial integration of the Air Force, and the Roswell UFO incident. Some additional biographical information about Ramey is provided by Colonel Terry Garland.
Date:
April 27, 1999
Creator:
Lane, Peter B.; Garland, Terry & Roberts, John A.
Object Type:
Book
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Kenneth Nine, April 28, 1990
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Interview with Kenneth Nine, a Army WWII veteran from Lonaconing, Maryland, who was present at the attack on Pearl Harbor. Nine discusses joining the Army, assignment to the 27th Infantry at Schofield Barracks, alerts, athletics, gambling, events of the attack at Schofield, preparing defenses on Oahu, and later service in the war.
Date:
April 28, 1990
Creator:
Marcello, Ronald E. & Nine, Kenneth
Object Type:
Book
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Effie McQueen, April 30, 2013
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Interview with Effie McQueen from Marshall, Texas. McQueen discusses her childhood and education, attending North Texas State University, participation in civil rights activism, getting the streets of south Denton paved, Quakertown, employment and discrimination, her church involvement, the Denton County Courthouse, and reflections on the town. In appendix is a photo of the Denton County Courthouse and one of the Den County Confederate Memorial.
Date:
April 30, 2013
Creator:
Stallings, Chelsea & McQueen, Effie
Object Type:
Book
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Ruth (Rob) Shivers, April 29, 2016
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Interview with Rob Shivers, a Dallas-area LGBT activist from Birmingham, Alabama. Shivers discusses discovering her sexuality, her relationships, nursing school, church involvement, closeting and her marriage, jobs worked, moving to Dallas, the LGBT community, joining the Metropolitan Community Church and establishing a parish in Dallas, organizing the first Pride parades in the area, political activism and police interference, death threats, and the Kennedy Assassination.
Date:
April 29, 2016
Creator:
Wisely, Karen & Shivers, Ruth (Rob)
Object Type:
Book
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Eva McMillan, April 25, 2014
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Interview with Eva McMillan, a civil rights activist from Tennessee. McMillan discusses growing up in the segregated South, her family, early involvement in civil rights, experiences of racism and discrimination, her son Ernie's establishing a chapter of the SNCC at UT Arlington, Ernie's arrests and imprisonment, founding various advocacy and activism groups in Dallas, milestones and tragedies of the Civil Rights Movement, conflict with the police and the decline of the SNCC, and reflections on her work. In appendix are photos of McMillan and Dallas-area civil rights activists, a flier, and newspaper clippings.
Date:
April 25, 2014
Creator:
Smith, Tiffany & McMillan, Eva
Object Type:
Book
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with James W. Huffman, April 11, 1990
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Interview with James W. Huffman, a Navy WWII veteran and POW from Los Angeles, California, who survived the sinking of the USS Houston (CA-30). Huffman discusses joining the Navy; service aboard the Houston and changes in training as war neared; early operations in the war; the Battle of Sundra Strait and sinking; surviving in Java; capture by the Japanese; various experiences in internment at Bicycle Camp in Batavia, Changi Camp in Singapore, Thanbyuzayat, several camps on the Burma Railway, and Tamarkan in Thailand; and liberation.
Date:
April 11, 1990
Creator:
Marcello, Ronald E. & Huffman, James W.
Object Type:
Book
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interviews with Vivian T. Starks, 1991
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Interview with Vivian Starks, a teacher and longtime resident of Hamilton Park from Bryan, Texas. Starks discusses her education, teaching, her service with the USO, moving to Dallas and Hamilton Park, black schools in Dallas, developing the neighborhood, churches, issues with "buying out," the Civic League, Old North Dallas, desegregation, and contemporary issues.
Date:
1991-04/1991-05
Creator:
Wilson, William H. & Starks, Vivian T.
Object Type:
Book
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with David Thomas, April 28, 1990
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Interview with David Thomas, a Marine WWII veteran from Takio, Missouri, who was at the Attack on Pearl Harbor. Thomas discusses joining the Marine Corps in 1940, assignment to Kaneohe Naval Air Station, life and work there, the attack on December 7th, the immediate aftermath, casualties and damage to Kaneohe, leaving the Marines to attempt becoming a naval aviator, and being drafted into the Army as a bomber navigator.
Date:
April 28, 1990
Creator:
Marcello, Ronald E. & Thomas, David
Object Type:
Book
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Carl Denmon, April 8, 2006
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Interview with Carl Denmon, African-American alumnus of North Texas State University. The interview includes Denmon's personal experiences about childhood in Houston, Texas and undergraduate education at Wiley College. Additionally, Denmon discusses his employment as band director at Fred Moore High School in Denton, graduate studies in Music and Education at NTSU, his career with and retirement from Dallas County Community College, and his perceptions of changes in Denton and at North Texas over forty years.
Date:
April 8, 2006
Creator:
Johnson, Michael & Denmon, Carl
Object Type:
Book
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Frank Curre, Jr., April 19, 2002
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Interview with Navy veteran Frank Curre Jr. The interview includes Curre's personal experiences about joining the Navy, boot camp, being aboard the battleship USS Tennessee during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor, and his subsequent experiences in the Pacific Theater during World War II. Additionally, Curre talks about pre-war shipboard life and training exercises, his activities during the attack on Pearl Harbor, aftermath of the attack, his transfer to the yard minesweeper YMS-102 at Bremerton, Washington, operation around Midway Island, his transfer to the escort carrier Petrof Bay, the Battle of Leyte Gulf, kamikaze attacks, the Okinawa campaign, and continued combat against kamikazes.
Date:
April 19, 2002
Creator:
Marcello, Ronald E. & Curre, Frank, Jr.
Object Type:
Book
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Pierina E. Mercado Beckman, April 19, 2011
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Interview with University of North Texas Professor Dr. Pierina E. Mercado Beckman, Mexican-born immigrant to Denton, Texas, for the DFW Metroplex Immigrants Oral History Project. The interview includes Beckman's personal experiences about childhood in Mexico City, relocating to the U.S., her decision to attend Graceland College in Lamoni, Iowa, her culture shock and homesickness, marriage to Curt Beckman, the decision to earn a Ph.D. in Spanish Literature from the University of Iowa, being hired at UNT, and her efforts to remain in touch with family members in Mexico.
Date:
April 19, 2011
Creator:
Clower, John & Beckman, Pierina E. Mercado
Object Type:
Book
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Gloria Villanueva-Anderson, April 19, 2004
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Interview with community activist Gloria Villanueva-Anderson. The interview includes Villanueva-Anderson's personal experiences about being an activist in the Mexican-American community of Denton, Texas, education in Denton schools, discrimination at the train station in Denison, Texas, being accepted to the work-scholarship program of the FBI in 1952, opening her telephone answering exchange business, turning toward Republican politics, and her activities with George H.W. Bush's Texas Statewide Hispanic Campaign. Additionally, Villanueva-Anderson discusses her family background, the lack of discrimination against Hispanics in Denton, her family's assimilation in the Anglo culture, early Hispanic families in Denton, her appointment to the North Texas Hispanic Advisory Board by Senator John Tower, as well as her appointments to the Texas Small Business Task Force by Governor William Clements, the White House Conference on Small Business by President Jimmy Carter, and as Regional Advocate for the Small Business Administration by Ronald Reagan.
Date:
April 19, 2004
Creator:
Ray, Dulce Ivette & Villanueva-Anderson, Gloria
Object Type:
Book
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Margaret Hunt Davis, April 30, 2006
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Interview with Margaret Hunt Davis, alumna of North Texas State University. The interview includes Davis' personal experiences about childhood in rural East Texas, making the decision to attend North Texas, campus life, graduating with a degree in library science, and having a career in Dallas public schools.
Date:
April 30, 2006
Creator:
Quirk, Ryan & Davis, Margaret Hunt
Object Type:
Book
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Murphy Daniels, April 4, 2006
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Interview with Murphy Daniels, African-American alumnus of North Texas State University. The interview includes Daniels' personal experiences about childhood and education, enrolling in North Texas rather than Texas Southern University, majoring in pre-med, serving in the United States Air Force, studying at Southwestern Medical School, and pursuing medical research. Additionally, Daniels speaks about his difficulties with white professors and graduate assistants, race relations on campus, social life among black students on campus, and off-campus life in "Shack Town" and the support from black citizens of Denton.
Date:
April 4, 2006
Creator:
Hegi, Benjamin P. & Daniels, Murphy
Object Type:
Book
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Raymond Curtis, April 29, 2010
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Interview with Raymond Curtis, longtime resident and school administrator of Weatherford, Texas, as part of the Weatherford Oral History Project. The interview includes Curtis' personal experiences of farm life in the Great Depression, childhood in Collin County, Texas, and education at the University of North Texas under the GI Bill. Additionally, Curtis discusses his family history, his career as a teacher, administrator, and coach in various public school districts, the integration of Weatherford schools, the school-building program, and his career as CEO of the Weatherford Chamber of Commerce.
Date:
April 29, 2010
Creator:
Liles, Debbie & Curtis, Raymond
Object Type:
Book
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Leroy Whitaker, April 14, 1998
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Interview with Dr. Leroy Whitaker, attorney and chemist, about his experiences as an undergraduate and master's student in the Chemistry Department at North Texas State College, 1948-52.
Date:
April 14, 1998
Creator:
Marcello, Ronald E.; Schafer, Rollin E. & Whitaker, Leroy, 1929-2021
Object Type:
Book
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Bill King, April 26, 2018
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Interview with Dr. Bill King, a radiologist from Denton, Texas. King discusses his family background and upbringing, working for the Denton County Chronicle as a teenager, grade school, attending North Texas State College and becoming a doctor, the history of the Rotary Club, and his involvement in it.
Date:
April 26, 2018
Creator:
Chegwidden, Caitlin & King, Bill
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 Strimple C. Coyle, Aprill 22, 1994
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Interview with Sergeant Major Strimple C. ("Jim") Coyle, a Marine Corps veteran, concerning his experiences Ewa Field with VMF-211 (Marine Fighter Squadron 211) during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
Date:
April 22, 1994
Creator:
Marcello, Ronald E. & Coyle, Strimple C.
Object Type:
Text
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Maury Meister, April 10, 1991
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Interview with Maury Meister, a Navy veteran, concerning his experiences patrolling off of Ford Island Naval Air Station with VP-24 during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
Date:
April 10, 1991
Creator:
Marcello, Ronald E. & Meister, Maury
Object Type:
Book
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Ildea Cutchall, April 1, 1994
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Interview with Ildea Cutchall about her experiences as an employee of the Lone Star Army Ammunition Plant in Texarkana, Texas during World War II and the postwar years. Cutchall discusses the hiring procedures, the job assignments, safety precautions, social activities, swing shifts, race relations, relationships between the male and female workers, and the social and economic effects of the plant on Texarkana. Appendix includes a photocopy of a certificate from the Lone Star Ordnance Plant to Ildea S. Cutchall for 23 months of service at the plant during World War Two [1 leaf].
Date:
April 1, 1994
Creator:
Brantley, Janet G. & Cutchall, Ildea
Object Type:
Book
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Lee B. Soucy, April 25, 1994
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Interview with Lee Soucy, a Navy veteran, concerning his experiences aboard the target battleship USS Utah during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
Date:
April 25, 1994
Creator:
Marcello, Ronald E. & Soucy, Lee B.
Object Type:
Book
System:
The UNT Digital Library