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United States Earthquakes, 1931

Description: Report discussing earthquake activity in the United States during 1931. The report is broken down by regions and has sections for specific earthquakes.
Date: 1932
Creator: Neumann, Frank
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Oral History Interview with William J. Bates, February 7, 2001

Description: Interview with Navy veteran William J. Bates including personal experiences about the Pacific Theater during World War II, youth and education, the Navy Aviation Cadet Program, flight training, leaving naval aviation and attending Midshipman's School, being assigned to APc-21, operations off the coast of New Guinea with the VII Amphibious Force, providing escort duty for LCTs during assaults along the coast of New Guinea, the sinking of APc-21 by Japanese planes off New Britain Island, recupera… more
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Date: February 7, 2001
Creator: Alexander, William J. & Bates, William J.
Partner: UNT Oral History Program
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[News Script: Vietnam, anti-war protesters, and Kent State]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about troop movements in Laos, an anti-war march in Washington, and about a sit in and memorial at Kent State for the anniversary of the Kent State killings.
Date: May 5, 1971, 6:30 a.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Funk day]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about National fink day of national fink week in the Grayson county.
Date: June 20, 1974, 8:25 a.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: News]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story of senator being a witness in senate subcommittee hearing, 23-member federal grand jury will be picked in Cleveland and parents of three victims have hailed the investigation.
Date: December 18, 1973, 6:30 a.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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Coal-Mine Accidents in the United States and Foreign Countries

Description: From Introduction: "The lack of comparable and accurate statistics of coal-mine accidents in the united States as a whole led the Bureau of Mines in 1911 to undertake the collection of such data. The mining departments of the leading foreign coal-producing countries have long taken cognizance of the importance of statistics. The bureau feels that in presenting the tables embodied in this report it is offering the and comparable statistics of coal-min accidents for the country as a whole that ha… more
Date: 1913
Creator: Horton, Frederick W.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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[News Script: Belmont Secretariat]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about secretariats who joined the immortals of the horse world by becoming the ninth winner of the triple crown by a runaway in the Belmont stakes.
Date: June 9, 1973, 10:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Kent State and Indochina]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story of an ambulance driver who took two Ohio National Guardsmen to hospital after the 1970 Kent State Shootings. Also, about the fighting which have slowed down on Phnom Penh's southern front as bogged government task forces wait for artillery and air strikes to take effect.
Date: January 29, 1974, 6:30 a.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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From Wright Field, Ohio, to Hokkaido, Japan: General Curtis E. LeMay's Letters to His Wife Helen, 1941–1945

Description: In 1942, Colonel Curtis E. LeMay and his 305th Bomb Group left Syracuse, New York, bound for England, where they joined the Eighth Air Force and Royal Air Force in war against Germany and her allies. Over the next three years LeMay led American air forces in Europe, India, China, and the Pacific against the Axis powers. His efforts yielded advancement through the chain of command to the rank of Major General in command of the XXIst Bomber Command, the most effective strategic bombing force of t… more
Date: 2015
Creator: Hegi, Benjamin Paul & Hurley, Alfred F.
Partner: UNT Libraries
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[News Script: Chinese]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about a refugee from Chinese mainland said that the Red China still is bent on world revolution.
Date: February 14, 1974, 6:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Fifth summary]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating three news summaries. Nixon was reported to have kept in daily contact with Watergate Scandal developments but made no staff cuts. Goodyear Tire and Rubber reached an agreement with union reps. And, survivors of minesweeper that caught fire and sank in the sea were expected to arrive in Okinawa.
Date: April 25, 1973, 6:30 a.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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Oral History Interview with George Detre, August 17, 1978

Description: Transcript of an interview with George Detre, a Navy veteran from Warren, Ohio, and a survivor of the sinking of the USS Houston. Detre discusses concerning his experiences during World War II, including as a prisoner-of-war of the Japanese.
Date: August 17, 1978
Creator: Marcello, Ronald E. & Detre, George
Partner: UNT Oral History Program

Oral History Interview with Keith Heavrin Jr., July 31, 2015

Description: Transcript of an interview with Keith Heavrin Jr., homesteader and simple life advocate. Heavrin shares concerning his childhood; military experiences in Vietnam; love of the sea; discovering the Nearings and the Simple Life; decision to homestead in Maine; memories of the Nearings and the Good Life Center.
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Date: July 31, 2015
Creator: Pomerleau, Clark A. & Heavrin, Keith Jr., 1946-2016
Partner: UNT Oral History Program

Oral History Interview with Thomas D. Riggleman, June 8, 1995

Description: Transcript of an interview with Thomas Riggleman, an engineer and Navy veteran, concerning his experiences while aboard the destroyer USS McGowan during World War II in the Pacific Theater. Riggleman discusses everyday life aboard ship, Iwo Jima, Okinawa and kamikazes, and the operations off northern Japan in 1945. Appendix includes a photocopy of Thomas Riggleman's pre-interview information for the University of North Texas.
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Date: June 8, 1995
Creator: Marcello, Ronald E. & Riggleman, Thomas D., 1926-
Partner: UNT Oral History Program
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