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Oral History Interview with Russell C. Ellis, May 15, 1997

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Interview with Russell Ellis, a Navy veteran, concerning his experiences aboard the merchant ships USS Santa Leonara, USS Jose Bonaficio, USS Daniel H. Hill, and the repair ship USS Amphion in the European Theater during World War II. North Atlantic convoys; German submarine and aircraft threats; personal observations of civilian conditions in England, Belgium, and France.
Date: May 15, 1997
Creator: Byrd, Richard W. & Ellis, Russell C.
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library

Oral History Interview with Richard Grissom, May 9, 1996

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Interview with Richard Grissom, a Navy veteran, concerning his experiences while aboard the submarine USS Tirante in the Pacific Theater during World War II. Submarine School, New London, Connecticut, 1944; his training as an electrician's mate; qualification examination; assignment to the Tirante, 1945; various patrols around the Japanese home islands.
Date: May 9, 1996
Creator: Maglaughlin, Barry & Grissom, Richard
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library

Oral History Interview with Hollis G. Duell, May 22, 1996

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Interview with Hollis G. Duell, a Navy veteran, concerning his experiences while aboard the submarine USS Sargo in the Pacific Theater during World War II. Assignment to the Sargo, 1941; his responsibilities as a yeoman; early war patrols off the Netherlands East Indies and the Philippines; transfer to the Submarine Division Commander's Office, Pearl harbor, 1944; postwar duty in the Submarine Service.
Date: May 22, 1996
Creator: Maglaughlin, Barry & Duell, Hollis G.
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library

Oral History Interview with Norman Benedict, May 7, 1996

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Interview with Norman Benedict, a Navy veteran, concerning his experiences as an engineering officer with Submarine Division 46 and Submarine Division 106 in the Pacific Theater while stationed at Pearl Harbor during World War II. Assignment to the USS Cuttlefish, 1941; transfer to the Engineering and Repair Department, Pearl Harbor, 1942, as a division engineer; comments about submarine maintenance, repair, and modernization.
Date: May 7, 1996
Creator: Maglaughlin, Barry & Benedict, Norman
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library

Oral History Interview with Steve A. Pickens, May 30, 1996

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Interview with Steve Pickens, a businessman and former President of the Nocona Boot Company, concerning his experiences as a financial analyst for Justin Industries, comptroller for Nocona Boot Company from 1983 to 1984, general manager of Nocona from 1984 to 1987, and President of Nocona from 1987 to 1995. Pickens comments on Nocona's founder, Enid Justin; the "Urban Cowboy" craze and plant expansion in 1981; the reorganization of the boot manufacturing process; marketing and advertising strategies and the "Hero Series" posters; on-the-job training of plant executives; employer-employee relations; wages and benefits; the western wear sales downturn in 1993; layoffs; the diversification of the product line; the creation of the "show boot;" and his termination as President in 1995.
Date: May 30, 1996
Creator: Lipscomb, Carol & Pickens, Steve A.
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library

Oral History Interview with Marcia Taylor, May 31, 1995

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Interview with Marcia Taylor, a homemaker, concerning her recollections of the history of the Nocona Boot Company and its founder, Ms. Enid Justin.
Date: May 31, 1995
Creator: Lipscomb, Carol & Taylor, Marcia
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library

Oral History Interview with C. M. ("Hank") Hudspeth, May 3, 1993

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Interview with Hank Hudspeth, a Navy veteran, concerning his experiences as a cryptographer in the Pacific Theater during World War II. Hudspeth discusses his assignment to COMSOPAC at Noumea in New Caledonia, the intricacies of sending and receiving various classifications of coded messages, and the ambush of Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto's plane in 1943.
Date: May 3, 1993
Creator: Daniels, John & Hudspeth, C. M.
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library

Oral History Interview with Richard D. Salter, May 1, 1993

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Interview with Lieutenant Colonel Richard Salter, an Army Air Corps veteran, concerning his experiences during internment in the Soviet Union after the downing of his bomber by Japanese planes (1943-1944). Salter also discusses Alaskan operations and his postwar career in the Air Force.
Date: May 1, 1993
Creator: Byrd, Richard; Daniels, John & Salter, Richard D.
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library

Oral History Interview with Geoffrey Bryson Fisken, May 1, 1993

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Interview with Geoffrey Fisken, a veteran of the Royal New Zealand Air Force, concerning his experiences as a combat pilot in the Royal New Zealand Air Force in the Pacific Theater during World War II. Fisken discusses the fall of Singapore, Guadalcanal operations, air combat against Japanese Zeros, and his release from duty in December of 1943.
Date: May 1, 1993
Creator: Daniels, John & Fisken, Geoffrey Bryson
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library

Oral History Interview with Barbara Campbell, May 6, 1993

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Interview with Barbara Campbell concerning her views on the impact and significance of women on the development of the Republican Party in Texas (1960-1990). Campbell discusses the first senatorial campaign of John Tower, the activities of Northwood, Texas, Republican Women's Club, the Texas Federation of Republican Women, her work for U.S. Congressman Jim Collins, and her personal political philosophy.
Date: May 6, 1993
Creator: Strickland, Kristi & Campbell, Barbara
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library

Oral History Interview with Baine P. Kerr, May 4, 1993

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Interview with Baine Kerr, an attorney and Marine Corps veteran, concerning his combat experiences with the 3rd Marine Division in the Pacific Theater during World War II. Kerr discusses Guadacanal, his machine gun wound at Guadacanal, Kwajalein, Saipan, and his assignment to a legal office at Camp Lejeune in North Carolina.
Date: May 4, 1993
Creator: Daniels, John & Kerr, Baine P.
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library

Oral History Interview with Rogers Aston, May 4, 1993

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Interview with Rogers Aston, a Navy veteran, concerning his experiences aboard LST-446 during the Solomon Islands Campaign (1942-1943), his participation in the landings on Guadalcanal, New Georgia, Vella Lavella, and Bougainville, and his participation in the Marianas Campaign and landings at Saipan and Guam in 1944. The Appendix to the volume includes a photocopy of an application for the Military Order of the World Wars for Reginald Rogers Aston dated July 19, 1984 [4 leaves] and a photocopy of a memo titled, "Navy Department, Sixteen Ships of LST Flotilla Five Awarded Navy Unit Commendation" (undated) [1 leaf].
Date: May 4, 1993
Creator: Byrd, Richard & Aston, Rogers
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library

Oral History Interview with George Gowen, May 3, 1993

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Interview with George Gowen, a Navy veteran, concerning his experiences aboard the destroyer Chevalier during the Battle of Vella Lavella in January 1943 in the Pacific Theater during World War II, and his naval career after World War II.
Date: May 3, 1993
Creator: Byrd, Richard & Gowen, George
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library

Oral History Interview with Zenji Abe, May 1-4, 1993

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Interview with Zenji Abe, an Imperial Japanese Navy veteran, concerning his experiences as a dive-bomber pilot during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, his participation in the Aleutians Campaign in June 1942 and the "Great Marianas Turkey Shoot" in May 1944, and the surrender of Rota Island on September 2, 1945.
Date: 1993-05-01/1993-05-04
Creator: Byrd, Richard; Daniels, John & Abe, Zenji
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library

Oral History Interview with Lyle Specht, May 3, 1993

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Interview with Lyle Specht, a Marine Corps veteran, concerning his combat experiences with the 6th Marines at Guadalcanal, Tarawa, and Okinawa in the Pacific Theater during World War II.
Date: May 3, 1993
Creator: Byrd, Richard & Specht, Lyle
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library

Oral History Interview with Mary Anna Sewalt, May 10, 1993

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Interview with Mary Anna Sewalt concerning her participation in the development of the Republican Party in Texas (1944-1993). Sewalt discusses her youth in West Texas, her employment with WPA (Works Progress Administration) during the New Deal years, her decision to join the Republican Party in 1947, her conservative philosophy, organizing the Republican Party of Denton County, the 1952 presidential campaign, activities with the Texas Federation of Republican Women, her positions on abortion, the Religious Right, and women's rights in general.
Date: May 10, 1993
Creator: Strickland, Kristi & Sewalt, Mary Anna
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library

Oral History Interview with Robert Crist, May 26,1993

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Interview with Robert Crist from Wrightsville, Pennsylvania 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. Crist worked at a camp in Mehoopany, Pennsylvania (Company 1377).
Date: May 26, 1993
Creator: Marcello, Ronald E. & Crist, Robert
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library

Oral History Interview with Robert Crist, May 27, 1993

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Interview with Robert Crist, an Army veteran, concerning his experiences at Fort Shafter with the 9th Signal Service Company during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
Date: May 27, 1993
Creator: Marcello, Ronald E. & Crist, Robert
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library

Oral History Interview with David A. Webb, May 15, 1991

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Interview with David A. Webb, librarian and former Director of Libraries at the University of North Texas when it was North Texas State University. Webb discusses his background, teaching experience, collections at the library, budget, and developments within the field of Library and Information Science.
Date: May 15, 1991
Creator: Himmel, Richard L.; Lavender, Kenneth & Webb, David A.
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library

Oral History Interview with Walter Littmann, May 12, 1990

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Interview with Walter Littmann, a businessman, chemist, and former German prisoner-of-war of the United States during World War II. Littmann discusses his involvement in the Afrika Korps, miliary conflicts, life at the internment camp in Mexia, Texas, and eventual repatriation.
Date: May 12, 1990
Creator: Marcello, Ronald E. & Littman, Walter
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library

Oral History Interview with John Haynie, May 4, 1990

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Interview with John Haynie, professor of trumpet at the University of North Texas from Ralls, Texas, regarding his career at the College of Music at UNT, the growth and development of the school, his colleagues, students, and family.
Date: May 4, 1990
Creator: Spencer, David & Haynie, John
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library

Oral History Interview with Howard Baxter, May 22, 1991

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Interview with Howard L. Baxter, a farmer and former member of the Civilian Conservation Corps from Tom Bean, Texas, regarding his experiences and memories of participating in the CCC during the Great Depression. It includes an appendix with a poem about "The CCC Boys" by Iva Hathaway.
Date: May 22, 1991
Creator: Marcello, Ronald E. & Baxter, Howard L.
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library

Oral History Interview with Jerry F. Price, May 31, 2022

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Interview with Jerry F. Price, a celebrated coach from Grandview, Missouri. Price discusses growing up in Denton, his sports background, teaching at Lincoln High School in Kansas City, becoming a football, basketball, track, and golf head coach, integration of schools, his football accomplishments, family, and his health. Documents are included in the Appendix to this interview.
Date: May 31, 2022
Creator: Wilson, Sara D. & Price, Jerry F.
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Pat Gulley, May 11, 1988 (open access)

Oral History Interview with Pat Gulley, May 11, 1988

Interview with Pat Gulley, a community activist and a member of the Denton Christian Women's Interracial Fellowship. Gulley explains her involvement with the group, the history of race relations in Denton, the desegregation of public facilities and schools, early group meetings, opposition to the Fellowship, and its contributions.
Date: May 11, 1988
Creator: Lohr, Mary & Gulley, Pat
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library