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Oral History Interview with Ann Barnett, November 13, 1987 (open access)

Oral History Interview with Ann Barnett, November 13, 1987

Interview with schoolteacher and community activist Ann Barnett from Denton, Texas. In the interview, Barnett discusses her experiences concerning the activities of the Denton Christian Women's Inter-Racial Fellowship during the 1960s and 1970s. She also comments on her childhood in Nacogdoches, Texas, the desegregation of North Texas State College in 1950s, the student stand-in at Campus Theatre in Denton, the desegregation of restaurants and housing, social affairs, urban renewal, voter registration, the literacy program, the Denton Christian Preschool, meeting programs, and establishing dialogue between races.
Date: November 13, 1987
Creator: Harris, Jane & Barnett, Ann
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Dorothy Adkins, November 17, 1987 (open access)

Oral History Interview with Dorothy Adkins, November 17, 1987

Interview with schoolteacher and community activist Dorothy Adkins from Denton, Texas. In the interview, Dorothy discusses her experiences concerning the activities of the Denton Christian Women's Inter-Racial Fellowship during the 1960s and 1970s. She also comments on the desegregation of schools and other public places in Denton, street paving in the African-American section of Denton, public housing, job opportunities, and the Denton Christian Preschool.
Date: November 17, 1987
Creator: Byrd, Richard & Adkins, Dorothy
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Edward Jones, November 15, 1987 (open access)

Oral History Interview with Edward Jones, November 15, 1987

Interview with Edward Jones, a survivor of the 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor and former member of the Civilian Conservation Corps from New Orleans, Louisiana, regarding his experiences and memories of participating in the CCC during the Great Depression.
Date: November 15, 1987
Creator: Marcello, Ronald E. & Jones, Edward
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Ernest Griffith, November 4, 1982 (open access)

Oral History Interview with Ernest Griffith, November 4, 1982

Interview with Ernest Griffith, owner and operator of Griffith's Independent Ginner. The interview includes Griffith's personal experiences about education in Texola, Oklahoma, part-time employment as cotton picker, and being involved in building cotton gins and operating drug stores. Griffith also talks about his family background, the operation of Griffith and Stith cotton gin, buying cotton and retaining cotton seed, variations in cotton prices, sale of coal to farmers, buying grain for Kimball Milling Company, Weinert cotton gin personnel, significant changes in the cotton ginning business during thirty years, the ginning procedure, and civic and trade association activities.
Date: November 4, 1982
Creator: Jenkins, Floyd & Griffith, Ernest
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Fred Agnich, November 22, 1983 (open access)

Oral History Interview with Fred Agnich, November 22, 1983

Interview with Fred Agnich, businessman and member of the Texas House of Representatives from Dallas, Republican. The interview includes Agnich's personal experiences about being a member of the 68th Legislature. Agnich talks about his appointment as chair of the Environmental Affairs Committee, appropriations and taxes, Governor Mark White, teachers pay, and personal legislation.
Date: November 22, 1983
Creator: Marcello, Ronald E. & Agnich, Fred
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Garland Romagosa, November 15, 1987 (open access)

Oral History Interview with Garland Romagosa, November 15, 1987

Interview with Garland Romagosa, a Navy veteran, concerning his experiences aboard the battleship USS California during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
Date: November 15, 1987
Creator: Marcello, Ronald E. & Romagosa, Garland
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Garland Romagosa, November 15, 1987 (open access)

Oral History Interview with Garland Romagosa, November 15, 1987

Interview with Garland Romagosa, a United States Navy veteran from New Orleans, Louisiana, regarding his experiences and memories of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor of December 7, 1941 while aboard the battleship USS California.
Date: November 15, 1987
Creator: Marcello, Ronald E. & Romagosa, Garland
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Grace W. Cartwright, November 15, 1989 (open access)

Oral History Interview with Grace W. Cartwright, November 15, 1989

Interview with farmer-rancher and community activist Grace W. Cartwright, originally from Wise County, Texas. In the interview, Cartwright recollects her early days in rural Texas as well as her student days at North Texas State Teachers College, marriage, early job positions, and her work in the agriculture and land conservation fields. Cartwright discusses her many successes as a community activist, such as her appointment to the Texas Tourist Board, Texas roads beautification, her appointment by President Harry Truman as a delegate to the White House Conference on Youth and Children, her role in the creation of a parks system in Weatherford, Texas, and several others.
Date: November 15, 1989
Creator: Marcello, Ronald E.; La Brecque, Suzanne & Cartwright, Grace W.
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Harold Lewis, November 8, 1985 (open access)

Oral History Interview with Harold Lewis, November 8, 1985

Interview with Harold Lewis, an executive at Caltex Petroleum Corporation. He discusses his educational background, his employment with Standard Oil of California, his early experiences in refinery construction, his transfer to Caltex, his assignment to Bahrain, refinery construction in Australia (Boral, Ampol), refinery construction in Japan, and the relationship between Caltex and Nippon Oil. He also talks about military fuel oil contracts, postwar refinery expansion, Caltex East, Caltex in Korea and the Philippines, executive transfers, the decision of Texaco and Socal to re-enter the European market in 1967, crude purchases, and OPEC.
Date: November 8, 1985
Creator: Marcello, Ronald E. & Lewis, H. W. (Harold Walter), 1917-
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Harry E. Ellis, November 21, 1980 (open access)

Oral History Interview with Harry E. Ellis, November 21, 1980

Transcript of an interview conducted in Dallas, Texas with Harry E. Ellis, executive at the Dr. Pepper Company. Ellis discusses his experiences concerning the development and growth of the Dr. Pepper Company.
Date: November 21, 1980
Creator: Minor, David & Ellis, Harry E.
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Henry de Coligny, November 13, 1987 (open access)

Oral History Interview with Henry de Coligny, November 13, 1987

Interview with Henry de Coligny, a United States Navy veteran from New Orleans, Louisiana, regarding his experiences and memories of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor of December 7, 1941 while stationed at the Ford Island Naval Air Station.
Date: November 13, 1987
Creator: Marcello, Ronald E. & de Coligny, Henry
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Jack Martin, November 15, 1987 (open access)

Oral History Interview with Jack Martin, November 15, 1987

Transcript of an interview with Jack Martin, a Navy veteran, concerning his experiences aboard the battleship USS Nevada during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
Date: November 15, 1987
Creator: Marcello, Ronald E. & Martin, Jack J., 1921-
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with James A. Nasser, November 13, 1987 (open access)

Oral History Interview with James A. Nasser, November 13, 1987

Interview with James A. Nasser, a Army WWII veteran from Herrin, Illinois, who was present at the attack on Pear Harbor. Nasser discusses joining the Army, assignment to the 98th Coast Artillery at Schofield Barracks, work and training, liberty and recreation, the morning of the attack and shooting down a Japanese airplane, events afterwards, service later in the war, and work with veterans.
Date: November 13, 1987
Creator: Marcello, Ronald E. & Nasser, James A.
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with James Cook, November 14, 1987 (open access)

Oral History Interview with James Cook, November 14, 1987

Interview with James Cook, a United States Navy veteran from Monroe, Louisiana, regarding his experiences and memories of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor of December 7, 1941 while aboard the repair ship USS Rigel.
Date: November 14, 1987
Creator: Marcello, Ronald E. & Cook, James
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with James Womack, November 14, 1987 (open access)

Oral History Interview with James Womack, November 14, 1987

Interview with James Womack, a United States Navy veteran from Naples, Texas, regarding his experiences and memories of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor of December 7, 1941 while aboard the cruiser USS Saint Louis.
Date: November 14, 1987
Creator: Marcello, Ronald E. & Womack, James
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with John R. Zanca, November 14, 1987 (open access)

Oral History Interview with John R. Zanca, November 14, 1987

Interview with John R. Zanca, a United States Navy veteran from New Orleans, Louisiana, regarding his experiences and memories of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor of December 7, 1941 while aboard the cruiser USS Honolulu.
Date: November 14, 1987
Creator: Marcello, Ronald E. & Zanca, John R.
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Lawrence Keith, November 13, 1987 (open access)

Oral History Interview with Lawrence Keith, November 13, 1987

Interview with Lawrence Keith, a United States Marine Corps veteran from New Orleans, Louisiana, regarding his experiences and memories of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor of December 7, 1941 while stationed at Ford Island as a a member of the Marine Guard Detachment.
Date: November 13, 1987
Creator: Marcello, Ronald E. & Keith, Lawrence J.
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Lawrence Varnell, November 12, 1987 (open access)

Oral History Interview with Lawrence Varnell, November 12, 1987

Interview with Lawrence Varnell, a United States Navy veteran from New Orleans, Louisiana, regarding his experiences and memories of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor of December 7, 1941 while aboard the battleship USS Maryland.
Date: November 12, 1987
Creator: Marcello, Ronald E. & Varnell, Lawrence
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Mike Jacobs, November 26, 1989 (open access)

Oral History Interview with Mike Jacobs, November 26, 1989

Interview with Mike Jacobs, a Holocaust survivor from Konin, Poland. Jacobs discusses his family background and growing up in Konin's Jewish community, the growth of antisemitism, attending an integrated school, the German invasion and occupation, moving to the ghetto and life inside, collaborators and Jewish police, hostages, moving to a smaller ghetto, losing his family to Treblinka, working with Polish partisans, escaping the ghetto and working from Ostrowiec concentration camp, engaging in sabotage, life in the camp, transfer to Birkenau, the gas chambers, the attempted Auschwitz-Birkenau uprising, survival there, being evacuated to Vienna, labor in an aircraft factory, liberation, and life afterwards.
Date: November 26, 1989
Creator: Rosen, Keith & Jacobs, Mike
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Scantlin, November 8, 1985 (open access)

Oral History Interview with Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Scantlin, November 8, 1985

Interview with Clarence and Nona Scantlin, business-owners from Forth Worth, Texas. The Scantlins discuss their respective family histories and upbringing, their marriage, Clarence's work with Sandegaard's and Adam's grocery store and A&P Tea Company, starting his own grocery business, how the grocery and meat market were run, finances, quitting the grocery business, opening a business in furniture refinishing, how it was ran, and retirement.
Date: November 8, 1985
Creator: Jenkins, Floyd; Scantlin, Clarence & Scantlin, Nona
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Murdo MacIver, November 9, 1985 (open access)

Oral History Interview with Murdo MacIver, November 9, 1985

Interview with Murdo MacIver, an executive at Caltex Petroleum Corporation, discussing his experiences with the company. He comments on his educational background and early employment, his employment with Standard Oil Company of California, his transfer to Caltex in 1938, the expansion before World War II, Caltex during World War II, Bapco's refinery expansion, financing postwar refinery expansion, foreign exchange problems, banking syndicates, accounting methods, tanker construction, training of local nationals, T-2 tankers, the relationship between Caltex and subsidiaries, and Third World financial problems.
Date: November 9, 1985
Creator: Marcello, Ronald E. & MacIver, Murdo, 1901-
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Nicholas De Young, November 13, 1987 (open access)

Oral History Interview with Nicholas De Young, November 13, 1987

Interview with Nicholas De Young, a United States Navy veteran from Hamshire, Texas, regarding his experiences and memories of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor of December 7, 1941 while aboard the sea-going tug boat USS Bobolink.
Date: November 13, 1987
Creator: Marcello, Ronald E. & De Young, Nicholas
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Nolan Albarado, November 15, 1987 (open access)

Oral History Interview with Nolan Albarado, November 15, 1987

Interview with Nolan Albarado, a Army WWII veteran from Assumption Parish, Louisiana. Albarado discusses his experiences at Schofield Barracks, Oahu during the Japanese attack on December 7th, 1941, as well as his entry into the Army and training, assignment to Schofield Barracks, life and operations there, liberty, the stockade, and later service in the war.
Date: November 15, 1987
Creator: Marcello, Ronald E. & Albarado, Nolan
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Paul Decker, November 14, 1987 (open access)

Oral History Interview with Paul Decker, November 14, 1987

Interview with Paul Decker, a United States Navy veteran from Maurepas, Louisiana, regarding his experiences and memories of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor of December 7, 1941 while aboard the battleship USS California.
Date: November 14, 1987
Creator: Marcello, Ronald E. & Decker, Paul
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library