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Oral History Interview with Angela Bynum, November 16, 2007

Description: Interview with Angela Bynum, veteran of Operation Iraqi Freedom, as part of the Tarrant County War Veterans Oral History Project. The interview includes Bynum's personal experiences of childhood and education in California and Texas, enlisting in the U.S. Army, basic and advanced training as a motor transport operator, training in avoidance of improvised explosive devices, and transport missions between Iraq and Kuwait. Bynum also discusses her inability to withstand Airborne training, the deci… more
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Date: November 16, 2007
Creator: Castillo, Vogel & Bynum, Angela
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Oral History Interview with Bill Clayton, July 16, 1975

Description: Interview with Bill Clayton, a farmer-rancher-businessman and former Speaker of the Texas House of Representatives (1975-1982), concerning his experiences and personal views as speaker during the Sixty-fourth Legislature. Clayton discusses his early political career, his personal political philosophy, his quest for the house speakership, personal observations of former Speakers Byron Tunnell, Ben Barnes, Gus Mutscher, Rayford Price, Price Daniel, Jr., the appointment of committee chairs, dispos… more
Date: July 16, 1975
Creator: Marcello, Ronald E. & Clayton, Billy
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Oral History Interview with Bill Clayton, November 16, 1978

Description: Interview with Bill Clayton, Speaker of the Texas House of Representatives, concerning his recollections and experiences during the second special session of the 65th legislature. He discusses property tax, sales tax, the position of state governments, the opinions of other politicians at the session, and tax reform.
Date: November 16, 1978
Creator: Marcello, Ronald E. & Clayton, Billy
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Oral History Interview with Ceclia Bermejo Hernandez, February 16, 2013

Description: Interview with Cecelia Hernandez, a Mexican-American resident of Fort Worth, Texas. Hernandez discusses her schooling, her family, thoughts on college and first generation students, becoming and being a parent, working at Fort Worth ISD, and encountering struggles as a Hispanic person and parent. In appendix is her family tree.
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Date: February 16, 2013
Creator: Bravo, Francis & Bermejo-Hernandez, Cecelia
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Oral History Interview with Darwin McMillan, September 16, 1985

Description: Interview with Darwin "Mac" McMillan, a long-term employee of Caltex from California, discussing his background, employment with Texaco and Standard Oil, the history of Caltex and his work as an executive there, his various assignment experiences in China the Philippines, Germany, India, and South Africa, and the oil market.
Date: September 16, 1985
Creator: Marcello, Ronald E.
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Oral History Interview with Edward J. Drake, 2002

Description: Interview with attorney and Army Air Forces veteran Edward J. Drake. The interview includes Drake's personal experiences about being a B-17 pilot in the European Theater during World War II, youth and education in Dallas, Texas, enlistment in the Aviation Cadet Program, various training programs, bombing transportation facilities during and after the Ardennes Offensive, crash-landing in Belgium after his plane was hit, and linking up with American troops. Additionally, Drake talks about his ass… more
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Date: October 16, 2002
Creator: Marcello, Ronald E. & Drake, Edward J.
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Oral History Interview with Eldridge Rayburn, January 16, 1980

Description: Audio interview with Eldridge Rayburn, a veteran of the Texas National Guard from Lubbock, Texas, about his experiences as a member of the "Lost Battalion" captured at Java in 1942 by the Japanese army during World War II. Rayburn discusses his memories of being in a Field Artillery unit, a prisoner of war, and surviving.
Date: January 16, 1980
Creator: Marcello, Ronald E. & Rayburd, Eldridge
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Oral History Interview with Eunice Gray, October 16, 1987

Description: Interview with Eunice Gray, schoolteacher and local historian. The interview includes Gray's personal experiences about Denton County, Texas from 1900 to 1987. Gray talks about the early history of her descendants, cattle raising and marketing, and the oil industry.
Date: October 16, 1987
Creator: Renner, Jim & Gray, Eunice
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Oral History Interview with Frances Tarlton Farenthold, June 16, 2012

Description: Interview with Frances "Sissy" Tarlton Farenthold, attorney, activist, former Texas state representative, and candidate for the Democratic nomination for Governor of Texas (1972, 1974). She discusses her childhood in a liberal, politically active family in Corpus Christi, Texas; experiences with racial segregation and discrimination; experiences in Corpus Christi public schools, the Hockaday School for Girls, Vassar College, and University of Texas Law School. Her father (Benjamin Tarlton Jr.)’… more
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Date: June 16, 2012
Creator: Fields-Hawkins, Stephanie & Farenthold, Frances (Frances Tarlton), 1926-
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Oral History Interview with Fred J. Agnich, December 16, 1974

Description: Interview with Fred Agnich, a businessman and a Republican member of the Texas House of Representatives from Dallas, concerning his experiences and personal views while serving as a member of the Texas Constitutional Convention in 1974. Agnich discusses the need for constitutional revision, the Constitutional Revision Committee, Price Daniel, Jr. as chair of the Constitutional Convention, the Finance Committee, the right-to-work provision, and the failure of the Constitutional Convention.
Date: December 16, 1974
Creator: Marcello, Ronald E. & Agnich, Fred J.
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Oral History Interview with Glennon Ryan, September 16, 1988

Description: Interview with Glennon Ryan, a United States Navy veteran from Saint Louis, Missouri, regarding his experiences and memories of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor of December 7, 1941 while stationed at Ford Island Naval Air Station as a member of the Assembly and Repair Division.
Date: September 16, 1988
Creator: Marcello, Ronald E. & Ryan, Glennon
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Oral History Interview with Harriett Shelton Collins, September 16, 2006

Description: Interview with longtime resident of Cisco, Texas, Harriett Shelton Collins as part of the Eastland County African American Women Oral History Project. The interview includes Collins' personal experiences about education in Cisco's all-black, one-room Smithville Elementary School, her pregnancy and marriage to Bill Collins, working at the Boss Glove Factory, earning her GED, entering beauty school, and earning a degree as a Licensed Vocational Nurse. Additionally, Collins speaks about social lif… more
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Date: September 16, 2006
Creator: Rose, Harriett DeAnn & Collins, Harriett Shelton
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Oral History Interview with Jack B. Scroggs, June 16, 1971

Description: Interview with Dr. Jack B. Scroggs, history professor at North Texas State University from Little Rock, Arkansas. Scroggs discusses his experience as chairman of the Faculty Search Committee at NTSU after the resignation of university president John J. Kamerick, and the process of finding a new president.
Date: June 16, 1971
Creator: Marcello, Ronald E. & Scroggs, Jack B.
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Oral History Interview with Jerry Phelan, March 16, 1995

Description: Interview with Jerry Phelan, an employee of Kaiser Permanente from Pasadena, California, who worked on the Kaiser-Prudential joint venture in Texas. Phelan discusses his background with Kaiser, people who developed the Kai-Pru program, and his own roll therein.
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Date: March 16, 1995
Creator: Pinkney, Kathryn & Phelan, Jerry
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Oral History Interview with Josephine Bermejo, February 16, 2013

Description: Interview with Josephine Bermejo, first generation of Bermejo women, for the Mexican American Women's Educational Experience Oral History Project. The interview includes Bermejo's recollections of schooling in Minnesota and Iowa, learning in English schools, leaving school for family obligations, and getting a GED in Fort Worth, Texas. Bermejo also talks about children's education and her thoughts on the future of Mexican American education. It includes an appendix with the Bermejo family tree.
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Date: February 16, 2013
Creator: Bravo, Francis & Bermejo, Josephine
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Oral History Interview with Kenneth K. Anderson, September 16, 1988

Description: Interview with Kenneth K Anderson, a United States Navy veteran from South Dakota, regarding his experiences and memories of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor of December 7, 1941 while stationed at Ford Island as a member of VP-24, a Navy PBY patrol squadron.
Date: September 16, 1988
Creator: Marcello, Ronald E. & Anderson, Kenneth K.
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Oral History Interview with Leonard Webb, September 16, 1988

Description: Interview with Leonard Webb, a United States Navy veteran from East Saint Louis, Illinois, regarding his experiences and memories of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor of December 7, 1941 while stationed at the Staff Headquarters, 14th Naval District.
Date: September 16, 1988
Creator: Marcello, Ronald E. & Webb, Leonard
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Oral History Interview with Lorenzo Echanis, February 16, 1984

Description: Interview with Lorenzo Echanis discussing his experiences growing up in Basque Country with Basque parents, attending church and learning catechism, immigration to the United States, working as a shepherd, marriage, and returning to visit his hometown years later.
Date: February 16, 1984
Creator: Echeverria, Jeri & Echanis, Lorenzo
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Oral History Interview with Nick Sanchez, February 16, 1999

Description: Interview with Nick Sanchez, a Army Air Force WWII veteran from Laredo, Texas. Sanchez discusses working in radio when the war began, becoming a radio technician in the Army Air Force, deployment to India and operations there, going missing in China after surviving a plane crash, and the end of the war. In appendix are an autobiographical sketch of Sanchez's service, a copy of a diary recording his experience "bailing-out," and his official military statement of the event.
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Date: February 16, 1999
Creator: Alexander, William J. & Sanchez, Nick
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Oral History Interview with Roy J. Grogan, March 16, 2010

Description: Interview with Roy J. Grogan, longtime Weatherford resident and elected official, as part of the Weatherford Oral History Project. The interview includes Grogan's personal experiences of childhood and education in Weatherford, Depression-era struggles, enlisting in the U.S. Navy, and World War II. Additionally, Grogan talks about his studies at Weatherford College, Duke University, and Duke Law, his legal career with the FBI and as a land developer, his political career on the Weatherford City … more
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Date: March 16, 2010
Creator: Liles, Debbie & Grogan, Roy J.
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