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Jim Wright for U.S. Senate
Following the 1960 presidential election, a special election was held to fill the United States Senate seat vacated by then Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson. This telecast from May 1961 promotes the candidacy of Jim Wright, who was then serving in the United States House of Representatives from Texas’ 12th congressional district. The election drew a field of 71 potential candidates, with Republican John G. Tower narrowly defeating interim appointee and Democrat William Blakely in a runoff election. (As a result, Tower became the first Republican senator from Texas since Reconstruction.) Wright finished in third place.
Date:
May 1961
Creator:
Jim Wright Campaign
Object Type:
Video
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Meet Your Congressman
This educational film starring Representative Jim Wright of Fort Worth encourages American citizens to “drop in and say hello” to sitting congressmen when visiting Washington, D.C. In the staged interaction, a group of young people visit with Wright in his office, learning about the unique role of Congress and what they might expect to see on the House floor. After their conversation, Wright sends the teens on a guided tour of the Supreme Court.
Date:
1960~/1969~
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Video
System:
The Portal to Texas History
A Day in the Life of a United States Senator
This 1958 television documentary overviews a typical day on Capitol Hill for Senator Ralph Yarborough of Texas. (Yarborough was seeking reelection at the time.) After eating breakfast with his wife and conferring with his staff, Yarborough attends a hearing of the Post Office and Civil Service Committee and sits in on a session. All the while, he makes time for Texans visiting the national capital.
Date:
1958
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Video
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Forum Five
Presented by the Public Affairs Department of Fort Worth’s WBAP News, this episode of “Forum Five” looks at the educational opportunities afforded by and local importance of Texas Christian University. WBAP reporters Lowell Duncan and Bruce Neal first overview some of the university’s leading academic programs, such as the TCU Research Foundation. They also outline how the university contributes to Fort Worth and Tarrant County, from the many workers it employs to the leaders it shapes to the cultural activities it supports. TCU Chancellor James Maddox Moudy and Professor of English Jim Corder also speak.
Date:
1969
Creator:
Public Affairs Department of Fort Worth WBAP News
Object Type:
Video
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Hubert Humphrey Campaign Rallies
In 1968, then-Vice President Hubert Humphrey won the Democratic Party’s nomination for president and embarked upon a national tour to build support for his candidacy. Included amongst the many stops he made were visits to Fort Worth and Dallas, captured in this footage. After landing at Carswell Field, Humphrey visits with several Texas politicians, including Governor of Texas John Connally and United States Congressman Jim Wright of Fort Worth. He then delivers speeches at a public rally and a campaign dinner. Next, Humphrey flies to Dallas, where he speaks at another campaign rally. First Lady Lady Bird Johnson also makes an appearance.
Date:
1968
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Video
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Jim Wright Campaign Rally in Fort Worth
Following the 1960 presidential election, a special election was held to fill the United States Senate seat vacated by then Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson. This live telecast from March 1961 captures a rally for candidate Jim Wright at the Will Rogers Memorial Center in Fort Worth. (Wright was then serving in the United States House of Representatives from Texas’ 12th congressional district.) The election drew a field of 71 contenders, with Republican John G. Tower narrowly defeating interim appointee and Democrat William Blakely in a runoff election. (As a result, Tower became the first Republican senator from Texas since Reconstruction.) Wright finished in third place.
Date:
March 1961
Creator:
Jim Wright Campaign
Object Type:
Video
System:
The Portal to Texas History
PSA with Bob Lilly
In this short public service announcement from Texas Christian University, Pro Football Hall of Famer Bob Lilly advises that making the most out of your education means more than just getting good grades. “If you want to get everything you can out of school,” Lilly says, “you have to stay after it.”
Date:
1976~
Creator:
Texas Christian University
Object Type:
Video
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Thank You, Jim Wright!
Produced by the Fort Worth-based Third Coast Productions, this promotional documentary looks back at what Congressman Jim Wright accomplished during his first 25 years of service in the United States House of Representatives. The film focuses on initiatives Wright supported to help his Fort Worth constituents, from construction projects to the Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport. It also includes testimonials from locals and political colleagues thanking Wright for his service.
Date:
1979
Creator:
Third Coast Productions
Object Type:
Video
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Feliz Abalos, July 15, 2016
Feliz Abalos was born (1979) and raised in Odessa, Texas. Abalos graduated from Odessa High School in 1996 a semester early and attended one spring semester at Sul Ross State University. She graduated from the University of Houston in 2001 and then attended law school at Ohio Northern University Abalos has been chair of the Ector County Democratic Party. She has worked in various local political campaigns since she was a child. Abalos was also a member of the Board of Directors of the Premium Basin Planned Parenthood.
Date:
July 15, 2016
Creator:
Abalos, Feliz & Zapata, Joel
Object Type:
Video
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Delma Abalos, July 14, 2016
Delma Abalos was born and raised in Odessa, Texas. She attended Odessa College as well as the University of Texas-Permian Basin. Abalos gained her undergraduate degree in political science and her master’s degree in history. She now teaches courses in history, including Mexican American history, at Odessa College. Delma also served within the Ector County ISD board of trustees.
Date:
July 14, 2016
Creator:
Abalos, Delma; Moye, Todd; Wisley, Karen & Zapata, Joel
Object Type:
Video
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Grover Martin, June 9, 2016
Grover Martin was born and raised in Prairie View and went to Prairie View A&M for his BA and MA. He moved to Amarillo to work in the local air force base and continued on in another federal government job until the early 1990s. He was part of the Amarillo NAACP and experienced all black education institutions.
Date:
June 9, 2016
Creator:
Wisely, Karen; Zapata, Joel & Martin, Grover
Object Type:
Video
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Dr. Morris Baker, July 31, 2016
Dr. Morris Baker was born in 1939 in Ranger, Texas, the son of a mechanic and a domestic worker. As a child in Ranger, Baker lived in a mixed neighborhood of Mexican Americans, poor whites, and African Americans. Although, Ranger had segregated black and brown neighborhoods as well. Baker attended a one-room, all-black school called Slaughter Ward Elementary up to 6th grade. From 6th to 10th grade, Baker had to be bused to Eastland, where education ended for African Americans before they could obtain a high school Diploma. Thus, when the Brown v. Board dissension came in, his parents simply signed him up for classes in the white Ranger High School. Baker was allowed to attend as long as he did not socialize with the white high school female students or attend many of the school’s social events. He graduated as the school’s first African American graduate in 1957. Other African Americans followed. Baker then graduated from Cisco College (A.A. 1959), McMurry University (B.A. in Biology 1963), Harvard University (M.Ed. 1970), The Ohio State University (Ph.D. in clinical psychology 1976). Baker has worked for the Peace Corps, public schools in Los Angeles, California and other cities, and has taught at …
Date:
July 31, 2016
Creator:
Baker, Morris & Wisely, Karen
Object Type:
Video
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Dallas Willis, July 29, 2016
Dallas “Dally” Willis was born in 1920 in Dallas, Texas but grew up in Cleburne, Texas, raised by a single mother of seven children after his father abandoned the family. Willis attended high school in Cleburne and joined the Marine Corps in 1941. In the Marine Corps, Willis worked as an aerial photographer mapping the Pacific territories controlled by Japan. Upon returning to Cleburne, Willis worked for Southwestern Bail and joined the Communication Workers of America union. He moved to Midland, Texas in 1949. From 1961 to 2005 he served within the CWA’s Political and Legislative Committee, lobbying in the Texas Legislature. Dally also began the Labor Day Celebration of the Permian Basin in 1957. He has been a delegate for the DNC convention and was the decades long president of the Permian Basin Central Labor Union.
Date:
July 29, 2016
Creator:
Wisely, Karen; Zapata, Joel & Willis, Dallas
Object Type:
Video
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Lilia Escajeda, July 6, 2016
Lilia Escajeda was born in El Paso, Texas. She grew up between El Paso, Van Horn, and Amarillo; and she remembers going to segregated schools in Van Horn. She settled in Amarillo as an adult after her husband died, and she eventually became the first female loan-officer for any bank in Amarillo, at the Amarillo National Bank. She joined various community organizations, boards, and became both the first Mexican American women Amarillo College board member and City Commissioner (later City Council Member).
Date:
July 6, 2016
Creator:
Escajeda, Lilia; Wisely, Karen & Zapata, Joel
Object Type:
Video
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Hector Mendez, July 21, 2016
Hector Mendez was raised in Big Lake, Texas and attended Angelo State University, where he was part of the Mexican American Student organization that called for ethnic studies in the university. He later attended the university of Texas Permian Basin for his master’s degree in education. He became the superintendent of Ector County Independent School District in the 2000s as conservative trustees led the district.
Date:
July 21, 2016
Creator:
Wisely, Karen; Zapata, Joel & Mendez, Hector
Object Type:
Video
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Karen Hildebrand, July 27, 2016
Karen Hildebrand was born in Odessa, Texas in 1958. She graduated from Permian High School in 1976 and attended Angelo State University in San Angelo, Texas, where she graduated in 1981. Hildebrand returned to Odessa and worked for various non-profits, including Planned Parenthood. She served various capacities within Planned Parenthood, including becoming CEO for twenty-three years. Hildebrand has also served in the Peace Corps, earned a Master’s degree in public administration from the University of Texas-Permian Basin, and now heads for a women’s crisis center.
Date:
July 27, 2016
Creator:
Wisely, Karen; Zapata, Joel & Hildebrand, Karen
Object Type:
Video
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Floyd Price, June 29, 2016
Floyd Price was born in Lubbock and grew up in a near by town. Floyd graduated from Dunbar High School in 1959. He received a Bachelors of Science degree in Criminal Justice and Sociology from Wayland Baptist University in 1976. Floyd is a retired veteran of the Lubbock Police Department where he served for 33 years. He also served in the U.S. Army. Currently he works part-time with the Lubbock County Sheriff's Department.Floyd has always been a public servant, and especially enjoys working with young people. He had the honor of speaking to United Youth Congress in 1989, 1993, and 1997. Floyd enjoys singing, teaching the Bible, and playing sports. He has received numerous awards in his lifetime, including Citizen of the Year in 1995 and 1996, Man of the Year in 1990, and Lubbock Avalanche-Journal Readers Choice Award for Best Law Officer in 1994, 1995, and 1996.Floyd has also served on many boards, including Retired Senior Volunteer Program, Consortium Committee for the Homeless, Hospice of Lubbock, and Texas Agricultural Extension Board. Currently, Floyd serves on the YWCA Cancer Survivorship Cancer Coalition Advisory Board and the South Plains Association of Governments Criminal Justice Advisory Committee.
Date:
June 29, 2016
Creator:
Wisely, Karen; Zapata, Joel & Price, Floyd
Object Type:
Video
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Clyde James, June 27, 2016
Clyde “Chico” James grew up in segregated 1940s and 1970s Lubbock. He later graduated from the University of Texas at Austin. He spent time in Mexico City and has lived between Lubbock and Mexico City for several decades. In Lubbock, James has been active in city politics and neighborhood associations. Specifically, James helped start an effort to save a Lubbock magnet school attended by Mexican Americans from destruction by a anti-Mexican school board.
Date:
June 27, 2016
Creator:
Wisely, Karen; Zapata, Joel & James, Clyde
Object Type:
Video
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Elisha Demerson, June 11, 2016
Elisha Demerson was born and raised in Amarillo. Elisha Demerson and his twin brother both received appointments to West Point, but returned to Amarillo after two years to be near their ill mother. Elisha Demerson first worked at Pantex as a yard worker but entered West Texas State University (now West Texas A&M University) where he gained a bachelors then a masters in engineering. He has his own congregation as a minister. In addition, Elisha Demerson became the first African American Potter County Commissioner, the first African American county judge in Texas in the late 1980s, and the first African American City Council Member.
Date:
June 11, 2016
Creator:
Demerson, Elisha; Wisely, Karen & Zapata, Joel
Object Type:
Video
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Odel Crawford, July 14, 2016
Interview with Odel Crawford, president and CEO Black Chamber of Commerce of the Permian Basin. Crawford was born in Brownwood Texas. He attended Abeline Christian University.
Date:
July 14, 2016
Creator:
Crawford, Odel; Wisely, Karen & Zapata, Joel
Object Type:
Video
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Gilbert Guzman, June 7, 2016
Guzman was born in Edinburg and moved to Hart as a child. He later moved to Amarillo and bought his own small buisness. He helped revitalize the Hispanic Chamber of Commerce in the 1980s.
Date:
June 7, 2016
Creator:
Guzman, Gilbert & Zapata, Joel
Object Type:
Video
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with T.J. Patterson, June 21, 2016
T.J. Paterson was born in Waxahachie, Texas and grew up in Wichita Falls, Texas. He went to Bishop College in Marshall, Texas and majored in physical education. He then moved to Lubbock to work for a private school. Upon meeting and marrying his wife, he stayed in Lubbock. Patterson was the first African American elected to the Lubbock City Council and served in that role for two decades.
Date:
June 21, 2016
Creator:
Wisely, Karen; Zapata, Joel & Patterson, T.J.
Object Type:
Video
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Iris Lawrence, June 22, 2016
Iris Lawrence was born and raised in the North Heights neighborhood of Amarillo, Texas. She attended African American universities, including Howard University, and earned a master’s degree in English. While in college, Lawrence also participated in attempting to integrate Amarillo while on school breaks. Upon returning to Amarillo after living in various places like Austin, Texas, Lawrence worked for the state’s comptrollers office and served as the president of the NAACP.
Date:
June 22, 2016
Creator:
Wisely, Karen & Lawrence, Iris
Object Type:
Video
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Bertha Linton on July 25, 2016
Berta Perez Linton was born in 1942 or 1943 in Brady, Texas. She attended schools in Melvin, Texas until 7th grade while her family lived in a ranch. Linton’s family then moved to San Angelo, Texas where she graduated from Central High School in 1961. Linton attended Angelo College for one year and a half before transferring to the University of Texas at Austin. Linton graduated from the University of Texas at Austin with a major in elementary education in 1967. She taught bilingual education in Austin Schools before attending Texas Southern University’s Welcome to Thurgood Marshall School of Law, graduating in 1977. Linton then moved to San Angelo where she was the counsel for the local LULAC council. She still practices law in San Angelo.
Date:
July 25, 2016
Creator:
Wisely, Karen; Zapata, Joel & Linton, Bertha
Object Type:
Video
System:
The Portal to Texas History