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[Rifle Descriptions]
Typed note which includes descriptions of a rifle which was made in Italy in 1940.
Date:
November 22, 1963
Creator:
Dallas (Tex.). Police Department.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
"Here, Sir, the People Govern"
Text of remarks by Barbara Jordan before the Hollywood Women's Political Committee in Los Angeles, California. She discusses Rosa Parks and ongoing challenges to civil rights in the United States and abroad.
Date:
November 3, 1989
Creator:
Jordan, Barbara, 1936-1996
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Media: Improving the Human Condition
Text for a speech given by Barbara C. Jordan before the Beverly Hills-Hollywood Chapter of Media Women, about the American peoples' reliance on television for information about the government and politics, and how that affects governmental accountability to citizens.
Date:
November 2, 1975
Creator:
Jordan, Barbara C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Media: Improving the Human Condition
Text of remarks by Barbara Jordan to the Beverly Hills-Hollywood Chapter of Media Women at the Beverly Hilton Hotel. She discusses how the televising of the Richard Nixon impeachment proceedings changed the public's perception of Congress and politics. She also discusses the importance of women voters.
Date:
November 2, 1975
Creator:
Jordan, Barbara, 1936-1996
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Media: Improving the Human Condition
Text of speech delivered by Barbara Jordan to the Beverly Hills-Hollywood Chapter of Media Women at the Beverly Hilton Hotel. She discusses the Watergate scandal and issues for women.
Date:
November 2, 1975
Creator:
Jordan, Barbara, 1936-1996
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Media: Improving the Human Condition
Text for a speech given by Barbara C. Jordan before the Beverly Hills-Hollywood Chapter of Media Women, about the American peoples' reliance on television for information about the government and politics, and how that affects governmental accountability to citizens.
Date:
November 2, 1975
Creator:
Jordan, Barbara C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with John Reas, November 17, 2000
The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with John Reas. Reas grew up in Indiana and Ohio and enlisted in the Navy in 1938. After training, he boarded the USS Houston (CA-30) at Charleston, South Carolina. He was assigned to the aviation unit. On February 28, 1942, he survived the bombing and sinking of the ship. He and other survivors in life rafts were picked up by the Japanese the next day and taken to Java as a prisoner of war. He was taken to a ship and then back to an island, where he met survivors of the Australian ship HMAS Perth (D29). They were moved from Serang to Batavia. He was told to record the POW's occupations and those idenitified as skilled were sent to Japan. Inspired by this, he kept a detailed and complete list of the survivors that he kept hidden. From Java, the survivors are put on a cargo ship to Singapore. Then they went to Pynang by train. He then boarded another ship to Burma. Allied forces bombed a ship next to Reas. He describes living in bamboo huts while building the railroad. During one of the routine abuses in …
Date:
November 17, 2000
Creator:
Reas, John
System:
The Portal to Texas History