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Oral History Interview with William Havel, April 22, 1994
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Interview with William Havel, an army veteran from Staten Island, New York. This interview recounts his experiences as an adopted child in a farm family and then as a corpsman at Tripler General Hospital during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
Date:
April 22, 1994
Creator:
Marcello, Ronald E. & Havel, William
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Book
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The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with William E. Moore, Jr., March 4, 1998
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Interview with William E. Moore Jr., a Army WWII veteran from Temple, Texas, who was present at the attack on Pearl Harbor. Moore discusses his time in the Corps of Cadets at Texas A&M, assignment to 24th Division Artillery at Schofield Barracks, Hawaii, training and alerts, the attack at Wheeler Field and taking defensive positions around Oahu, and service afterwards.
Date:
March 4, 1998
Creator:
Meisch, Lisa & Moore Jr., William E.
Object Type:
Book
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The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interviews with Pauline Dixon, August 1990
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Interview with Pauline Dixon, a teacher and longtime resident of Hamilton Park from Pittsburg, Texas. Dixon discusses her education, her father's work as assistant sheriff in segregated Pittsburg, the Classroom Teachers of Dallas, moving to Hamilton Park, development of the area, the "buy out" of the neighborhood, the Civic League, desegregation and busing, and her political work.
Date:
August 1990
Creator:
Wilson, William H. & Dixon, Pauline
Object Type:
Book
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The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interviews with Freddie and Ola Lee Allen, 1991
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Interview with Freddie and Ola Lee Allen, a married couple living in Hamilton Park, both from Marshall, Texas. The Allens discuss their family backgrounds and education, Mr. Allen's service in the Navy during WWII and work in the construction business, Mrs. Allen's work with Richardson ISD and Richland College, their children, moving to Hamilton Park, the neighborhood's development, organizational activities with the Civic League and others, the schools, desegregation, and the "buy out."
Date:
1991-02/1991-03
Creator:
Wilson, William H.; Allen, Freddie & Allen, Ola Lee
Object Type:
Book
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The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interviews with Sheila R. Allen, 1991
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Interview with Sheila Allen, an attorney and longtime resident of Hamilton Park from Dallas, Texas. Allen discusses attending school in Hamilton Park, integration in Richardson ISD and relations between white and black students, discrimination, attending East Texas State and Sam Houston University, struggles finding work afterwards, law school, church life, reflections on the Hamilton Park community, resisting "Buy Out," the Civic League, and thoughts on the future.
Date:
1991-06/1991-09
Creator:
Wilson, William H. & Allen, Sheila R.
Object Type:
Book
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The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with John A. Roberts, April 27, 1999
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Interview with General John Roberts, a Air Force WWII veteran from Arkansas, who served for over twenty years with General Roger Ramey of Denton, Texas. Roberts discusses Ramey's background and his own, Army Air Corps pilot training, the start of the war and assignment under Ramey, changing commands and transition to the B-29, Curtis LeMay, the atomic bomb, postwar work, Ramey's health and death, his relationships with various figures, Douglas MacArthur and Harry Truman, the racial integration of the Air Force, and the Roswell UFO incident. Some additional biographical information about Ramey is provided by Colonel Terry Garland.
Date:
April 27, 1999
Creator:
Lane, Peter B.; Garland, Terry & Roberts, John A.
Object Type:
Book
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The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interviews with Barbara J. Darden, 1990-1991
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Interview with Barbara Darden, a nurse and resident of Hamilton Park from Dallas, Texas. Darden discusses her upbringing and education, nursing, her family, moving to Hamilton Park and the neighborhood's development, school involvement, desegregation and busing, and the Interorganizational Council and the Civic League.
Date:
1990-12/1991-10
Creator:
Wilson, William H. & Darden, Barbara J.
Object Type:
Book
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The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Cleon Stewart, March 18, 1993
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Interview with Cleon Stewart, a Texas National Guard WWII veteran and POW from Tulia, Texas, who served and was captured with the 2nd Battalion, 131st Field Artillery (known as the "Lost Battalion"). Stewart discusses joining the National Guard, training and the Louisiana Maneuvers, deployment to the Pacific in November, 1941, diversion to Java after December 7th, Japanese air strikes and the invasion, the American surrender and initial internement by the Japanese, experiences in internment at Bicycle Camp in Batavia, transfer to Changi Camp, Singapore, and life in captivity there, and liberation.
Date:
March 18, 1993
Creator:
Marcello, Ronald E. & Stewart, Cleon
Object Type:
Book
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The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interviews with Curtis J. Smith, 1990
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Interview with Curtis J. Smith, a airline industry worker and community organizer from Longview, Texas. Smith discusses his family history, his education, working for his father, moving to Dallas, service in the Navy during WWII, getting married, working for Braniff International and American Airlines, living in Hamilton Park, his children, church activities, work with the Interorganizational Council and the Civic League, and development of the neighborhood.
Date:
1990-02/1990-03
Creator:
Wilson, William H. & Smith, Curtis J.
Object Type:
Book
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with E. Maurice Keathley, May 24, 1995
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Interview with E. Maurice Keathely, an employee of Prudential Insurance from Houston, Texas, who was involved in the Kaiser-Prudential joint venture. Keahtley discusses his educational background, work at Prudential, his responsibilities with "Kai-Pru", the value and benefits of the venture, key members of the companies, the financial arrangement and organization of the venture, marketing, HMO's, inter-company cooperation, difficulties and criticisms, and the Texas Medical Association.
Date:
May 24, 1995
Creator:
Pinkney, Kathryn & Keathley, E. Maurice
Object Type:
Book
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The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Allen Stafford, March 12, 1999
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Interview with Allen Stafford, a Texas National Guard WWII veteran from Kiowa County, Oklahoma, who served with the 124th Cavalry Regiment. Stafford discusses his early life, working in Texas oil fields, enlisting and training, deployment to the China-Burma-India Theater and reorganization as an infantry unit, combat operations with the Japanese around the Burma Road, and returning to the United States.
Date:
March 12, 1999
Creator:
Alexander, William J. & Stafford, Allen E.
Object Type:
Book
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The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Robert Toulouse, July 11, 1990
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Interview with Robert Toulouse, Dean of the University of North Texas Graduate School from Denton, Texas. Toulouse discusses the Texas College of Osteopathic Medicine and his involvement in the merger of the college with NTSU/UNT.
Date:
July 11, 1990
Creator:
Rafes, Richard & Toulouse, Robert
Object Type:
Book
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Lyndle Lynch, January 10, 1995
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Interview with Lyndle Lynch, a Navy WWII veteran from El Paso, Texas, who was aboard the USS Utah during the attack on Pearl Harbor. Lynch discusses going into the Navy, work aboard the Utah, liberty in Honolulu, the morning of the attack, the sinking of the Utah and abandoning ship, assisting the wounded, duties after the attack, morale and reactions, and service aboard the USS Detroit.
Date:
January 10, 1995
Creator:
Marcello, Ronald E. & Lynch, Lyndle
Object Type:
Book
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The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interviews with Vivian T. Starks, 1991
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Interview with Vivian Starks, a teacher and longtime resident of Hamilton Park from Bryan, Texas. Starks discusses her education, teaching, her service with the USO, moving to Dallas and Hamilton Park, black schools in Dallas, developing the neighborhood, churches, issues with "buying out," the Civic League, Old North Dallas, desegregation, and contemporary issues.
Date:
1991-04/1991-05
Creator:
Wilson, William H. & Starks, Vivian T.
Object Type:
Book
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Archie Gantt, August 31, 1999
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Interview with Army veteran Archie Gantt. The interview includes Gantt's personal experiences about the European Theater during World War II, boyhood in central Texas, basic training, shipping to England, combat on the Siegfried Line, and the Battle of the Bulge. Additionally, Gantt talks about leadership problems, combat living conditions, Officer Candidate School and commissioning, and his postwar war service in Europe.
Date:
August 31, 1999
Creator:
Lane, Peter B. & Gantt, Archie
Object Type:
Book
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The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Mervin Garver, August 6, 1999
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Interview with Mervin Garver. The interview includes Garver's personal experiences about education and childhood during the Great Depression, being a defense worker at Riverside Foundry, blackouts and air raid wardens, and President Franklin D. Roosevelt's visits to Wrightsville by train. Garver also talks about his draft classification as 4-F due to psychoneurosis, his personal feelings about being classified as 4-F, local reactions to his 4-F status, the production of hand grenade and radar cores at Riverside Foundry, the financial and patriotic incentives to increase war production, the purchase of war bonds and stamps, employment of women and wartime shortages, rationing of food and gasoline, the "Victory Bus," effects of WW II on his personal finances and on the postwar lives of Wrightsville's citizens, the transition from wartime to peacetime production at Riverside Foundry, and his memories of post-World War II Memorial Day celebrations.
Date:
August 6, 1999
Creator:
Marcello, Ronald E. & Garver, Mervin
Object Type:
Book
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The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Warren D. Crumbling, November 13, 1999
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Interview with Warren D. Crumbling, Army veteran, special agent, and member of the White House Security Detail for President Lyndon B. Johnson. The interview includes Crumbling's personal experiences about education and employment before entering the military, basic training, various assignments, and being appointed to the White House Security Detail at President Lyndon B. Johnson's LBJ Ranch. Additionally, Crumbling talks about relations between the military and civilian law enforcement authorities in San Antonio during World War II, his marriage, his fourth enlistment and assignment to Kobe, Japan, various stateside assignments, his retirement from the Army, President and Mrs. Johnson, and his retirement from the Secret Service.
Date:
November 13, 1999
Creator:
Marcello, Ronald E. & Crumbling, Warren D.
Object Type:
Book
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The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Eugene L. Crumling, May 18, 1999
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Interview with Eugene L. Crumling, bartender and former professional ballplayer. The interview includes Crumling's personal experiences about being a professional baseball player in the U.S. during World War II. Crumling talks about his semi-pro baseball career in the late 1930s and early 1940s, the origin of his nickname, signing his first professional contract, life in the minor leagues during wartime, his draft classification as 4-F, his employment in defense-related work during the off-seasons, contrasts between life in the minors and life in the majors, individual Cardinals players, his first game and his first, and only, hit in the majors, the remainder of his minor league career, and his personal thoughts about the reserve clause, player strikes, modern-day salaries, and expansion.
Date:
May 28, 1999
Creator:
Marcello, Ronald E. & Crumling, Eugene L.
Object Type:
Book
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The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with William E. Cooper, September 7, 1999
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Interview with business executive and Army Air Forces veteran William E. Cooper. The interview includes Cooper's personal experiences about being a B-29 pilot in the Pacific Theater, pre-flight and flight training, various assignments, and dropping supplies by parachute to prisoners-of-war. Cooper also talks about living on Guam, mechanical weaknesses of the B-29, his descriptions of Nagasaki and Hiroshima from the air after the dropping of the atomic bombs, his disappointment with not being able to fly combat missions, postwar duty as a test pilot on Guam, and his postwar civilian activities.
Date:
September 7, 1999
Creator:
Marcello, Ronald E. & Cooper, William E.
Object Type:
Book
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The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Leslie W. Bray, Jr., March 3, 1999
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Interview with Army Air Forces veteran Leslie W. Bray, Jr. The interview includes Bray's personal experiences about the China-Burma-India Theater during World War II, youth during the Great Depression, flight training, being designated as the commander of the 16th Combat Cargo Squadron, stationing at Sylhet, India as part of his assignment to the CBI Theater, supplying the British 14th Army in Burma, flying difficulties due to weather conditions, various transfers, and flying "The Hump." Bray also talks about his early aspirations to become an aviator, initial failures to pass the Air Forces physical examination, his assignment to Troop Carrier Command, flying C-47s with the 1st Troop Carrier Group, his appointment as assistant group operations officer for the 10th Troop Carrier Group, Air Force School of Applied Tactics, the training of replacement units at various Air Force installations, the deactivation of the 16th Combat Cargo Squadron, and his postwar Air Force career and retirement as a general officer.
Date:
March 3, 1999
Creator:
Alexander, William J. & Bray, Leslie W., Jr.
Object Type:
Book
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Shuford M. Alexander, Jr., December 2, 1999
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Interview with engineer and Army Air Forces veteran Shuford M. Alexander, Jr. The interview includes Alexander's personal experiences about being a fighter pilot in Italy during World War II, basic training, flight training, various assignments and transfers, Operation STRANGLE, being shot down by flak over Piacenza, and being rescued by Italian partisans. Additionally, Alexander talks about his link-up with a British A-4 Mission and his attempt to reach Allied lines, his betrayal by a German agent and his subsequent capture, escaping and continuing his search for Allied lines, his observations and opinions about the partisans, a second encounter with a British A-4 Mission, the Martani family in the village of Tosca, his group's trek through mountain snow to reach Allied lines, meeting with British paratroopers and with African-American soldiers from the 92nd Infantry Division, and his reunion with his squadron in Pisa. The interview includes an appendix with a narrative by Alexander.
Date:
December 2, 1999
Creator:
Alexander, William J. & Alexander, Shuford M., Jr.
Object Type:
Book
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The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Carl Gorman, October 9, 1994
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Interview with Marine Corps veteran Carl Gorman. The interview includes Gorman's personal experiences as a Navajo code talker with the 2nd Marines on Guadacanal, Tarawa, and Saipan.
Date:
October 9, 1994
Creator:
Christman, Calvin & Gorman, Carl
Object Type:
Book
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The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Frank L. Dolan, December 15, 1995
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Interview with Navy veteran Frank L. Dolan. The interview includes Dolan's personal experiences aboard the repair ship USS Vestal during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. The interview includes an appendix with a narrative written by Dolan.
Date:
December 15, 1995
Creator:
Marcello, Ronald E. & Dolan, Frank L.
Object Type:
Book
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The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Melvin R. Baird, 1998
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Interview with Navy veteran Melvin R. "Pancho" Baird. It includes a combination of interviewing and reading from Baird's personal correspondence about his pre-World War II experiences with the U.S. Asiatic Fleet and his later experiences in the Pacific Theater during World War II. Baird talks about his stationing aboard the destroyer USS Alden as a radioman, the grounding of the SS President Hoover off of Hoishito Island, the Sino-Japanese War, liberty ashore various Asian port cities, events on the South China Patrol, civilian activities after his discharge, activities as a radio technician on Blue Beach during the Okinawan Campaign, kamikaze actions on Okinawa, and typical shipboard routine.
Date:
August 18, 1998
Creator:
Baird, James & Baird, Melvin R.
Object Type:
Book
System:
The UNT Digital Library