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Oral History Interview with Gilbert C. Garcia, March 3, 1969
Interview with Gilbert C. Garcia, businessman. The interview includes his experiences as a leader in the American GI Forum, the Political Association of Spanish-speaking Organizations (PASO), and other Mexican-American social action groups. It also includes his opinions on the Delgado Case, the poll tax drives, the Texas gubernatorial campaign of 1962, and the Crystal City elections, 1963.
Date:
February 28, 1971
Creator:
Cuellar, Robert & Garcia, Gilbert C.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with L. DeWitt Hale, June 24, 1971
Interview with Democratic attorney L. DeWitt Hale, a member of the Texas House of Representatives from Corpus Christi, Texas. In the interview, Hale discusses his experiences and personal views as a member of the Regular and First Special Session of the Sixty-second Legislature. He also share his thoughts on many issues that include revenue bills, corporate profits tax, the Sharpstown stock-fraud scandal, legislative ethics, the "Dirty Thirty", appropriations, redistricting, and personal legislation.
Date:
June 24, 1971
Creator:
Marcello, Ronald E. & Hale, L. DeWitt
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with David Allred, November 13, 1968
Interview with former member of the Texas House of Representatives David Allred, a journalist from Wichita Falls and son of former Democratic Governor James V. Allred. The interview includes Allred's personal experiences while serving as a member of the Special Session of the Sixtieth Legislature, as well as his views on revenue legislation, the reform of liquor laws, increases in state sales tax, changes in House rules, and beer and liquor lobbies. The interview also includes Allred's comments on fellow politicians and other House members.
Date:
September 30, 1971
Creator:
Marcello, Ronald E. & Allred, David
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Oscar H. Mauzy, June 23, 1971
Interview with former Democratic Texas Senator Oscar H. Mauzy, an attorney from Dallas, Texas. The interview includes Mauzy's personal experiences while serving as a member of the Sixty-second Legislature. The interview also includes Mauzy's views on revenue bills, corporate profits tax, the Sharpstown stock-fraud scandal, legislative ethics, appropriations, redistricting, and personal legislation.
Date:
September 22, 1971
Creator:
Marcello, Ronald E. & Mauzy, Oscar H.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with David Allred, July 29, 1971
Interview with Democratic journalist and member of the Texas House of Representative David Allred, from Wichita Falls, Texas. David Allred was the son of former Governor James V. Allred. In the interview, Allred describes some of his experiences as a member of the Regular and First Special Session of the Sixty -second Legislature. His topics of discussion include the origins of the "Dirty Thirty", the Sharpstown stock-fraud scandal, and his comments on former politicians Speaker Gus Mutscher and Representatives William Heatly, Frances Farenthold, and Tommy Shannon.
Date:
July 29, 1971
Creator:
Marcello, Ronald E. & Allred, David
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with A. R. Schwartz, May 6, 1970
Interview with former Democratic Texas Senator A. R. Schwartz, an attorney from Galveston, Texas. The interview includes Schwartz's experiences as a member of the Sixty-first Legislature, as well as his personal views on issues such as one-year versus two-year budgets, revenue bills, welfare spending, constitutional revisions, urban-rural conflicts, minimum wages for migrant workers, education legislation, unrest on college campuses, and personal legislation. The former Senator's comments about Governors John Connally and Preston Smith are also included in the interview.
Date:
February 8, 1971
Creator:
Marcello, Ronald E. & Schwartz, Aaron Robert, 1926-
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Emory M. Spencer, September 30, 1971
Interview with attorney Emory M. Spencer. The interview includes Spencer's personal experiences about being an attorney. Spencer talks about the development of the Coastal Bend area of South Texas 1920-71, cotton farming, Irish settlers and the Ku Klux Klan, gambling, the development of the Aransas County Airport, oil exploration, housing subdivisions, the Coastal Bend Regional Planning Commission, hurricanes, agriculture, property values, and prominent citizens of the county.
Date:
September 30, 1971
Creator:
Stephens, A. Ray & Spencer, Emory M.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Dean M. McCall, February 26, 1971
Interview with Dean M. McCall, Army Air Corps veteran and survivor of the siege of Corregidor. The interview includes McCall's personal experiences as a prisoner-of-war of the Japanese during World War II. McCall talks about the Japanese bombing of Nichols Field, the fall of Bataan, the fall of Corregidor and his capture, Bilibid Prison, hell ship to Japan, copper mining at Motiyama, Honshu, American air raids and naval bombardment, and liberation.
Date:
February 26, 1971
Creator:
Marcello, Ronald E. & McCall, Dean M.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Frank A. Hoke, November 24, 1971
Interview with Frank A. Hoke, banker and attorney. The interview includes Hoke's personal experiences about being an employee of the Dallas regional office of the Home Owners Loan Corporation during the New Deal. Hoke talks about mortgage buying, loan amortization, insurance, home improvements, accounting procedures, politics and patronage, taxes and appraising, foreclosures, and loan servicing.
Date:
November 24, 1971
Creator:
Marcello, Ronald E. & Hoke, Frank A.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Robert Gregg, March 24, 1971
Interview with Robert Gregg, a Texas National Guard WWII veteran and POW from Decatur, Texas, who was captured with the 2nd Battalion, 131st Field Artillery (the "Lost Battalion"). Gregg discusses mobilization and deployment to the Pacific, the fall of Java and his capture, internment at Bicycle Camp in Batavia and Changi Camp in Singapore, building the Burma-Thailand "Death" Railway, and liberation.
Date:
March 24, 1971
Creator:
Marcello, Ronald E. & Gregg, Robert
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Charles Tupper, August 12, 1971
Interview with Representative Charles Tupper regarding his experiences while a member of the 62nd Texas State Legislature.
Date:
August 12, 1971
Creator:
Marcello, Ronald E. & Tupper, Charles
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with James Kaster, August 12, 1971
Interview with Representative James Kaster regarding his experiences while a member of the 62nd Texas State Legislature.
Date:
August 12, 1971
Creator:
Marcello, Ronald E. & Kaster, James
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with James C. Venable, April 13, 1971
Interview with James C. Venable regarding his experiences in the military and as a prisoner of war of the Japanese during World War II. Mr. Venable was captured while serving in the Marine Corps on Wake Island.
Date:
April 13, 1971
Creator:
Marcello, Ronald E. & Venable, James C.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Jim Earthman, August 17, 1971
Interview with Representative Jim Earthman regarding his experiences while a member of the 62nd Texas State Legislature.
Date:
August 17, 1971
Creator:
Marcello, Ronald E. & Earthman, Jim
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with James W. Stroud, June 28, 1971
Interview with Representative James W. Stroud regarding his experiences while a member of the regular session and first special session of the 62nd Texas State Legislature. Specifically, the interview deals with the bond proposal by then Governor Smith as well as deficit financing.
Date:
June 28, 1971
Creator:
Marcello, Ronald E. & Stroud, James W.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with A. R. Schwartz, November 9, 1971
Interview with Texas State Senator A. R. "Babe" Schwartz regarding his time during the regular and first special session of the 62nd Texas Legislature. Specifically, the struggle over the corporate profits tax.
Date:
November 9, 1971
Creator:
Marcello, Ronald E. & Schwartz, A. R.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Ben Bynum, September 22, 1971
Interview with Ben Bynum, a public relations consultant and a Democratic member of the Texas House of Representatives from Amarillo. Bynum shares his experiences and personal views as a member of the Regular and First Special Sessions of the Sixty-second Legislature. He also discusses revenue bills, the corporate profits tax, the Sharpstown stock-fraud scandal, legislative ethics, the "Dirty Thirty", appropriations, redistricting, and his personal legislation.
Date:
September 22, 1971
Creator:
Marcello, Ronald E. & Bynum, Ben
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Arthur Dodge Jr., January 8, 1971
Interview with Arthur B. Dodge, Jr., a US Army WWII veteran from Lancaster, Pennsylvania. Dodge recounts his service in M Company, 350th Infantry Regiment, 88th Infantry Division, which landed in Morocco and moved through Algeria in late-1943, before landing in Italy, where his unit took up position on the Cassino-Rapido-Garigliano front in March, 1944. Dodge describes prolonged skirmishing with German forces near Tremesuoli, Lazio, the breakout from Cassino, advancing into northern Italy, and finishing the war in the Po Valley.
Date:
January 8, 1971
Creator:
Marcello, Ronald E. & Dodge Jr., Arthur B.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Sam Zangari, January 5, 1971
Interview with Sam Zangari, an Army WWII veteran from Lancaster, Pennsylvania. Zangari was present at Pearl Harbor during the Japanese attack on December 7th, 1941.
Date:
February 12, 1971
Creator:
Marcello, Ronald & Zangari, Sam
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Jack Blanton, June 29, 1971
Interview with Jack Blanton, a Democratic Texas state legislator from Carrollton, Texas. Blanton recounts his experiences during the first session of 62nd Texas State Legislature in 1971, including his response to Governor Smith's deficit funding plan, state finance, education reform, taxation, his role on the Appropriations Committee, manipulation of stocks and insurance, the so-called "Dirty Thirty," ethics legislation, and redistricting.
Date:
June 29, 1971
Creator:
Marcello, Ronald E. & Blanton, C. F. (Jack)
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Judge John D. Wendell, August-October 1971
Interview with Judge John D. Wendell, Aransas County Judge from Rockport, Texas. Wendell discusses the growth of the county's economy during his tenure, county taxation, spending and budgeting, the courthouse, housing developments, the fishing industry, county boundary disputes, the Intracoastal Canal, the Aransas County Navigation District, dredging, oil valuation and related lawsuits, conservationism, Aransas County Airport, and influential citizens.
Date:
{1971-08-18,1971-10-01}
Creator:
Stephens, A. Ray & Wendell, John D.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with O. R. Sparkman, May 6, 1971
Interview with O.R. Sparkman, a Marine WWII veteran and POW from Dallas, Texas. Stationed in China before the war, Sparkman was captured in December 1941 by the Japanese in Beijing and interned at various camps in occupied China and Korea before finishing the war at Hakodate, Japan.
Date:
May 6, 1971
Creator:
Marcello, Ronald E. & Sparkman, O. R.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with William G. Adair, May 27, 1971
Interview with Major William G. Adair, an Army WWII veteran and POW from Birmingham, Alabama. Stationed in the Philippines when the Japanese invaded in December 1941, Adair was captured, survived the Bataan Death March, and interned at Cabanatuan before going to Osaka and Zentsuji, Japan for the remainder of the war.
Date:
May 27, 1971
Creator:
Marcello, Ronald E. & Adair, William G.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Loren H. Brantley, November 19, 1971
Interview with Loren Brantley, a Marine WWII veteran and POW from Daingerfield, Texas. Brantley discusses being stationed in Shanghai before the war, his experience in the Philippines when the Japanese attacked on December 8th, the Battle of Corregidor, and his internments at Bilibid Prison, Cabanatuan, and a coal mine near Nagasaki.
Date:
November 19, 1971
Creator:
Marcello, Ronald E. & Brantley, Loren H.
System:
The UNT Digital Library