The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an interview with Leslie Bray. After several attempts to get into the Army Air Corps flying cadet program, Bray finally succeeded in late 1941 and started flight school in Coleman, Texas. He earned hi swings and commission in October, 1942. He ended up learning to fly C-47 cargo planes and serving as an operations officer for the 10th Troop Carrier Group. In June, 1944, Bray was selected to command the newly-formed 16th Combat Cargo Squadron in New York. They went overseas in November, 1944 to India to assist the British 14th Army in Burma. Bray shares several anecdotes about his time in India. He also flew missions carrying fuel drums over the Himalaya Mountains (the Hump) toward the end of the war. Bray returned to the US in late December, 1945 and elected to stay on active duty. He shares anecdotes about the rest of his career in the Air Force.

Interview with Warren Klein, a rancher from Kerrville, Texas. Mr. Klein discusses his parents' move to the area, his life as a rancher, and several notable events in local history: droughts, the flood of 1932, the establishment of the Divide School building on his family's land, and deadly weather.

Supplemental materials to accompany an interview with rancher Warren Klein, including photos of the Divide on the Warren Klein Ranch, cattle he raised, the Divide School building established on the Klein family's land, family photos, newspaper clippings, and article excerpts.

Handwritten notes and English translations of Akha songs and narratives about animals, opium, love, nature, and spirits originally transcribed in Akha notebooks 18-87.

Handwritten notes and English translations of songs and narratives originally transcribed in Akha notebooks 87 and 88 and an untranslated ritual narrative.

Press release from the Junior Black Academy of Arts and Letters discussing a dance performance hosted on April 16-17, 1999 at the Academy.

Press release from the Junior Black Academy of Arts and Letters discussing a jazz performance hosted on April 10, 1999 at the Clarence Muse Cafe Theatre.

The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with Rudy Kiehne. Kiehne was born in Fredericksburg, Texas, 25 October 1919 and enlisted in the Navy in 1938 upon graduating from high school. He was assigned to the USS Maryland (BB-46) in Pearl Harbor as a gunner’s mate responsible for a battery of 5-inch/.51-caliber broadside guns. He was aboard the Maryland the morning of 7 December 1941 and watched a Japanese plane drop a torpedo on the USS Oklahoma (BB-37), which was tied up next to the Maryland. He describes his role in manning an anti-aircraft battery, but does not recall any success against the Japanese aircraft during the attack. He recalls that a bomb penetrated the forward hull of the Maryland but there were a minimum of casualties. Kiehne was transferred to a fleet oiler in October 1942 and describes his new ship’s role as a member of a tanker group located in Ulithi, Caroline Islands, conducting underway replenishments for the fleet preparing for battle in the Philippines. He next recalls before transferred to USS USS LCS-392 and participating in the landing on Okinawa in April 1945. He was discharged at Camp Wallace, Texas after the war.

News release concerning the naming of Evelyn Conner Hicks to the DART Board of Directors, representing the city of Dallas.

News release DART's efforts to provide equal opportunity for employment and contracts.

News release about the Trinity Railway Express, a joint project between DART and the T, celebrating its one-millionth customer.

An email from Mary Matalin to Charles C. Francis about wanting to meet him and her response to the Republican Party's stance on gay and lesbian issues.

Excerpts of envivonment-related articles in the Constitution of the People's Republic of China.

Minutes from a meeting of the TXSSAR Board of Managers, held on March 14, 1999 at 10:05 a.m., including a summary of activities and business discussed. The meeting was called to order by State President Frank Gibson.

Minutes from a meeting of the TXSSAR Board of Managers, held on March 14, 1999, including a summary of activities and business discussed. The meeting was called to order by State President Frank Gibson, and expressed his concern with chapters not carrying out Chapter SAR business. Gibson e-mail in include in the document.

Minutes from a meeting of the TXSSAR Council of Chapter Presidents, held on March 12, 1999 in Houston Texas, including a summary of activities and business discussed. The meeting was called to order by Chairman Perry Steele.

The National museum of the Pacific War presents an interview with Allen Stafford. Stafford enlisted in the Army in January 1941. Once the war got started, Stafford found himself as an infantry instructor in Brownsville, Texas. He went overseas with the 124th Cavalry Regiment in 1943 to India for training before being deployed to Burma. He relates an anecdote about driving 500 mules from the docks at Bombay to the 124th encampment 18 miles inland. Stafford also reads excerpts from his personal journal and discusses the raid on the airport at Myitkyina. Later in the campaign, Stafford was wounded. After evacuation and stays in hospitals in India, he returned to New York in August, 1945.

Document issued by the Office of the Attorney General of Texas in Austin, Texas, providing an interpretation of Texas law. It provides the opinion of the Texas Attorney General, John Cornyn, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Constitutionality of Tax Code section 26.05, regarding notice and hearing requirements for property tax increase.

Document issued by the Office of the Attorney General of Texas in Austin, Texas, providing an interpretation of Texas law. It provides the opinion of the Texas Attorney General, John Cornyn, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Whether a "Rules and General Conditions of Parole Release" contract that requires the parolee to "comply with Sex Offender Registration Program" in and of itself obligates a local law enforcement authority to register the parolee.

Document issued by the Office of the Attorney General of Texas in Austin, Texas, providing an interpretation of Texas law. It provides the opinion of the Texas Attorney General, John Cornyn, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Whether a school district may require minimum "poverty level wage" in contracts with district.

Document issued by the Office of the Attorney General of Texas in Austin, Texas, providing an interpretation of Texas law. It provides the opinion of the Texas Attorney General, John Cornyn, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Whether section 5B(a) of the Texas Plumbing License Law, TEX. REV. CIV. STAT. ANN. art. 6243-101 (Vernon Supp. 1999), authorizes the State Board of Plumbing Examiners to adopt plumbing codes of statewide applicability, and related questions.

Document issued by the Office of the Attorney General of Texas in Austin, Texas, providing an interpretation of Texas law. It provides the opinion of the Texas Attorney General, John Cornyn, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Applicability of section 130.008 of the Education Code, which allows high school students to obtain joint credit for certain public junior college courses, to persons attending a private school.

Document issued by the Office of the Attorney General of Texas in Austin, Texas, providing an interpretation of Texas law. It provides the opinion of the Texas Attorney General, John Cornyn, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Whether clip-on microphones for county deputy sheriffs' portable radios are "security hardware" that may be purchased with monies from courthouse-security fund under article 102.017(d)(9) of the Code of Criminal Procedure.

Document issued by the Office of the Attorney General of Texas in Austin, Texas, providing an interpretation of Texas law. It provides the opinion of the Texas Attorney General, John Cornyn, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Whether, under Business Corporation Act article 5.17, a for-profit domestic business corporation may convert to a Texas nonprofit corporation organized under Texas Revised Civil Statutes articles 1396-1.01 through - 11.01, and related questions.