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[News Script: Arab oil to Texas]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about three weeks contracts which will be signed for delivery of Saudi Arabia oil to Baltex oil and gas corporation in Malakoff in East Texas.
Date: March 5, 1974, 8:25 a.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

Oral History Interview with Ernest Gordon, March 19, 1995

Description: Interview with Ernest Gordon. Gordon was born in Scotland and joined the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders in 1939 at Stirling Castle. He was sent to Singapore in January 1940 before the Japanese invaded. Gordon recalls defending the Malay Peninsula starting in January 1942. Gordon was the last to go over the causeway into Singapore before it was destroyed. As Singapore fell, Gordon escaped to Sumatra. When Sumatra fell, Gordon escaped on a sailboat but was captured asea and sent back to Singap… more
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Date: March 19, 1995
Creator: Byrd, Richard W. & Gordon, Ernest
Partner: UNT Oral History Program
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