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Oral History Interview with Billie Joyce Towles, February 18, 2010

Description: Interview with Billie Joyce Towles, longtime resident of Weatherford, Texas, as part of the Weatherford Oral History Project. The interview includes Towles' personal experiences of childhood and education in Weatherford, Depression-era struggles, and living in Weatherford during World War II. Towles also discusses her father's work with the Works Progress Administration, marriage to Norman Towles, her family's switch from Democratic loyalty to Republican, her personal evolution on race issues, … more
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Date: February 18, 2010
Creator: Liles, Debbie & Towles, Billie Joyce
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Partner: UNT Oral History Program
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Oral History Interview with Bob Armstrong, February 18, 1983

Description: Interview with Bob Armstrong, former Land Commissioner of Texas and attorney from Austin, Texas, concerning his political career and views on environmental policies in Texas. Armstrong discusses his run for office, governors at the time, water systems and land management, and legislation.
Date: February 18, 1983
Creator: Smallwood, J. B. & Armstrong, Bob
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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 Charles P. Foote, February 21, 1993

Description: Interview with Charles P. Foote about his experiences while employed by the Civilian Conservation Corps during the Great Depression. He discusses his childhood during the Great Depression in in Hunt County, Texas; joining the CCC; assignment to a camp at Wolfe City, Texas (Company 2899); description of camp; life in camp.
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Date: February 21, 1993
Creator: Cubberly, Monica & Foote, Charles P.
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Oral History Interview with Charlye Heggins, February 19, 2013

Description: Interview with former Denton City Council member Charlye Heggins as part of the UNT African American Remembrance Project. The interview includes Heggins' personal experiences about her childhood, raising a family, doing volunteer work in Denton, and being involved with Texas politics. She particularly talks about discrimination and race issues in Denton during the 1970s and '80s. It includes an appendix with photographs and an article about her death.
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Date: February 19, 2013
Creator: Stallings, Chelsea & Heggins, Charlye
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Oral History Interview with Dave C. Sanford, February 25, 1999

Description: Interview with Dave C. Sanford, a Army WWII veteran from Carter, South Dakota, who served as a mortarman in the 37th Infantry Division. Sanford discusses growing up, his experiences in the Great Depression, being drafted and training, the New Georgia, Guadalcanal, Bougainville, and Philippine campaigns, being wounded and discharged, and life afterwards.
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Date: February 25, 1999
Creator: Alexander, William J. & Sanford, Dave C.
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Oral History Interview with David Braden, February 4, 2005

Description: Interview with David Braden, architect and Army Air Forces veteran. In the interview, Braden speaks about his impressions of General Curtis LeMay in the Pacific Theater during World War II, his assignment to Saipan, Mariana Islands, for bombing operations against the Japanese homeland, LeMay's arrival in the Marianas and changes in bombing techniques, the thirty-five mission limitation and improvement in aircrew morale, his functions as a B-29 navigator, LeMay's decision to conduct incendiary n… more
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Date: February 4, 2005
Creator: Hurley, Alfred F. & Braden, David, 1924-
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Oral History Interview with Dean M. McCall, February 26, 1971

Description: 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.
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Oral History Interview with Donald Chipman, February 28, 2018

Description: Transcript of an interview with Donald Chipman, UNT Emeritus Professor of History. He discusses his background; graduate education at University of New Mexico; teaching career at North Texas, beginning in 1964; remembrances of Vietnam War-era protest on campus and general feelings about the war among NT students and faculty.
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Date: February 28, 2018
Creator: Reifsteck, Cynthia & Chipman, Donald E.
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Oral History Interview with Donald Stanley Vogel, February 12, 2003

Description: Interview with Donald Stanley Vogel, artist and art dealer, concerning his recollections concerning painter Perry Nichols. He discusses his early years as a painter after coming to Dallas from Chicago, 1942; comments about the "Dallas Nine"; building a clientele for his paintings; his relationship with John Rosenfield, the arts and music critic for the Dallas Morning News; his business partnership with Betty McLean in the Betty McLean Art Gallery, 1951-54; his criticism of Nichols's work habits… more
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Date: February 12, 2003
Creator: Balsley, Gerald & Vogel, Donald S., 1917-2004
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Oral History Interview with Douglas R. Crawford, February 25, 2004

Description: Interview with Air Force veteran Douglas R. "Roy" Crawford. The interview includes Crawford's personal experiences about early family life, joining the U.S. Army Air Forces, training as a bulldozer operator, removing radioactive debris from Hiroshima, training as a radar operator at Edwards Air Force Base, California, and working as the radar tracker when Major Chuck Yeager broke the sound barrier in the Bell X-1 on October 19, 1947. Additionally, Crawford talks about his assignments to Clark A… more
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Date: February 25, 2004
Creator: Alexander, William J. & Crawford, Douglas R., 1929-
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Oral History Interview with Edna Gardner Whyte, February 8, 1979

Description: Interview with Edna Gardner Whyte, a competitive pilot and flight instructor from Garden City, Minnesota. Whyte discusses her family history, her childhood and education, moving to Oregon, her initial interests in flying, her training in nursing, taking up flying, winning her first race, teaching others to fly, becoming a flight instructor full-time, Prohibition bootlegging, races, a crash, Amelia Earhart, the growth of women in aviation, service as a Army Air Corps nurse during World War Two, … more
Date: February 8, 1979
Creator: Jenkins, Floyd & White, Edna Gardner
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Partner: UNT Oral History Program
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Oral History Interview with Edward C. Fritz, February 7, 1983

Description: Interview with Edward C. "Ned" Fritz, former president of the Dallas Chapter of the National Audubon Society and an environmental activist from Dallas, Texas. Fritz discusses his environmental activities, and public opinion towards environmental movements throughout the years, include his own opinions about the Army Corps of Engineers.
Date: February 7, 1983
Creator: Marcello, Ronald E. & Fritz, Edward C.
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Oral History Interview with Ernest Kelley, February 20, 2003

Description: Interview with Ernest Kelley, a Texas National Guard WWII veteran from Antioch, Texas (now the Red River Army Depot), who served with the 112th Cavalry. Kelley discusses growing up in the Depression, joining the Guard, mobilization and training, horses, the Louisiana Maneuvers, deployment to New Caledonia, landing on Woodlark island and action there, the Battle of Arawe, redeployment to Australia, the Battle of Driniumor River in New Guinea, the Battles of Leyte and Luzon, returning to the Unit… more
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Date: February 20, 2003
Creator: Johnston, Glenn & Kelley, Ernest L.
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Oral History Interview with Eugene R. Cronin, February 1, 1972

Description: Interview with Eugene Cronin, a US Army Air Corps WWII veteran and POW from Kansas City, Missouri. Cronin discusses his time as a B-24 crewmember stationed at Cerignola, Italy, the kinds of missions flown, his being shot down over Hungary and captured by the German Army, and his experiences in captivity at Vienna, Frankfurt, and Stalag Luft #1 near Barth in Western Pommerania.
Date: February 1, 1972
Creator: Marcello, Ronald E. & Cronin, Eugene R.
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Oral History Interview with Exie Jean Alaman Morne'y, February 26, 2014

Description: Interview with Exie Jean Alaman Morne'y, a teacher from Fort Worth, Texas, who lived during the end of the Jim Crow era. Morne'y discusses her family background, attending grade school in Fort Worth, experiences with segregation and discrimination in the 1950s and 60s, attending North Texas State College, working at Parkland Hospital, her marriages and children, moving to California and back to Texas, her career with Fort Worth ISD, church activities and faith, thoughts on child education, and … more
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Date: February 26, 2014
Creator: Travis, Sarah & Alaman Morne'y, Exie Jean
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Oral History Interview with George Payne, February 23, 1993

Description: Interview with George Payne, a member of the Civilian Conservation Corps from Pilot Point, Texas. Payne discusses his family background, growing up and grade school, joining the CCC in Denton, going to Arizona and building a trail in Bontia National Park, leaving the CCC and joining a second time, assignment to Baggs, Wyoming, operating a bulldozer, recreation, camp facilities and organization, food, leave, pay, classes, new guys and hazing, and some reflections on the impact of the Corps.
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Date: February 23, 1993
Creator: Maxwell, Lisa & Payne, George
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Oral History Interview with Jack Feliz, February 28, 2000

Description: Interview with Navy veteran and survivor of the sinking of the USS Houston. The interview includes Feliz's personal experiences about being a prisoner-of-war of the Japanese during World War II, the sinking of the Houston, imprisonment at Serang, Java, the Changi Prison Camp, hell ship to Japan, prison camp at Ohasi, Honshu, and liberation.
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Date: February 28, 2000
Creator: Marcello, Ronald E. & Feliz, Jack
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Oral History Interview with Jack Guin, February 8, 1989

Description: Interview with Jack Guin, a United States Navy veteran from Guin, Alabama, regarding his experiences and memories of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor of December 7, 1941 while aboard the hydrographic vessel USS Sumner, originally called the Bushnell.
Date: February 8, 1989
Creator: Randall, George & Guin, Jack
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Oral History Interview with John Sacker, February 24, 1989

Description: Interview with Major John R. Sacker, a United States Air Force veteran from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, regarding his experiences and memories of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor of December 7, 1941 while a member of the 9th Signal Service Company stationed there.
Date: February 24, 1989
Creator: Young, Thomas & Sacker, John R.
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Oral History Interview with John Vogt, February 24, 1995

Description: Interview with Dr. John Vogt, a physician involved in the Kaiser-Prudential joint venture, from Birmingham, Michigan. Vogt discusses his initial work with Kaiser Permanente, the origins of the Kai-Pru venture and why it was established in the Texas market, the benefits and downside for each company, the Dallas healthcare market, the Dallas medical community, healthcare plan models, cost control, and the end of Kai-Pru.
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Date: February 24, 1995
Creator: Pinkney, Kathryn & Vogt, John
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