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Oral History Interview with Senator Betty Andujar, September 6, 1979

Description: Interview with Senator Betty Andujar, a Republican Texas state legislator from Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. Andujar discusses her experiences attending the 66th Legislative Session of the Texas Senate, including her impressions of the Republican Party in Texas, the demographics of the district she represents, the Equal Rights Amendment, abortion rights, the State Affairs committee, taxes, and legal cases.
Date: September 6, 1979
Creator: Marcello, Ronald E. & Andujar, Betty, 1912-
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Partner: UNT Oral History Program
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Oral History Interview with Jack Mahan, October 17, 1980

Description: Audio interview with Jack Mahan, a teacher, musician, and former student of Colonel Earl D. Irons, regarding his memories of studying under the bandmaster at the University of Texas at Arlington. Mahan discusses his own recollections as well as Colonel's involvement with the American Bandmasters Association and other musical organizations.
Date: October 17, 1980
Creator: Barrow, Gary & Mahan, Jack
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Partner: UNT Oral History Program
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Oral History Interview with Senator Betty Andujar, January 28, 1982

Description: Interview with Betty Andujar, a Republican member of the Texas Senate from Fort Worth, Texas, discussing her political career and experiences as a member of the 67th Texas Legislature. Andujar provides commentary on the gubernatorial elections, initiative-referendum, the state water plan, taxes, and new bills.
Date: January 28, 1982
Creator: Marcello, Ronald E. & Andujar, Betty, 1912-
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Partner: UNT Oral History Program

Oral History Interview with Kenneth Pressley, April 21, 2015

Description: Interview with Kenneth Pressley, a rancher from Mansfield, Texas. Pressley discusses his family background, education and career, events on the day of desegregation at Mansfield High School in 1956, and race relations.
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Date: April 21, 2015
Creator: Middleton, Megan & Pressley, Kenneth
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Oral History Interview with Ken Coffelt, July 15, 1990

Description: Interview with Ken Coffelt, an employee at the Texas College of Osteopathic Medicine from Arlington, Texas. Coffelt discusses joining TCOM in 1973, the different managers and employees there at the time, the atmosphere of the college administration, morale, and moves within and from the College.
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Date: July 15, 1990
Creator: Rafes, Richard & Coffelt, Ken
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Partner: UNT Oral History Program
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Oral History Interview with W. Hoyt Baird, February 14, 1980, and Vernon Baird, February 28, 1980

Description: Interviews with W. Hoyt Baird and Vernon Baird, chairman of the executive committee and President of Mrs. Baird's Bakeries, respectively, concerning the history of the Mrs. Baird’s Bakery Co. and history of the Baird family of Fort Worth.
Date: {1980-02-14,1980-02-28}
Creator: Jenkins, Floyd & Baird, W. Hoyt
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Partner: UNT Oral History Program

Oral History Interview with Charlie Rodriguez, March 5, 2003

Description: Interview with Charlie Rodriguez, businessman and musician, concerning his recollections concerning the development of the Northside (Fort Worth, Texas) Hispanic community, his music career, and the evolution of his family's Mexican foods business.
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Date: March 5, 2003
Creator: Ray, Dulce Ivette & Rodriguez, Charlie
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Oral History Interview with Brenda Sanders-Wise, March 20, 2014

Description: Interview with Brenda Sanders-Wise, a former student of I. M. Terrell High School from Fort Worth, Texas. Sanders-Wise discusses her average daily routine at the school, integration, her family history, Juneteenth and black culture in Fort Worth, church life, experiences of segregation and discrimination, and contemporary racism. In appendix is a photo of a public art installation commemorating black railroad employees at the TRE Station in Fort Worth.
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Date: March 20, 2014
Creator: Williams, Tessa & Sanders-Wise, Brenda
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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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Partner: UNT Oral History Program
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Oral History Interview with Gilbert C. Garcia, March 3, 1969

Description: Interview with Gilbert C. Garcia, businessman. The interview includes his experiences as a leader in the American GI Forum, the Political Association of Spanish-speaking Organizations (PASO), and other Mexican-American social action groups. It also includes his opinions on the Delgado Case, the poll tax drives, the Texas gubernatorial campaign of 1962, and the Crystal City elections, 1963.
Date: February 28, 1971
Creator: Cuellar, Robert & Garcia, Gilbert C.
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Partner: UNT Oral History Program
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Oral History Interview with Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Scantlin, November 8, 1985

Description: Interview with Clarence and Nona Scantlin, business-owners from Forth Worth, Texas. The Scantlins discuss their respective family histories and upbringing, their marriage, Clarence's work with Sandegaard's and Adam's grocery store and A&P Tea Company, starting his own grocery business, how the grocery and meat market were run, finances, quitting the grocery business, opening a business in furniture refinishing, how it was ran, and retirement.
Date: November 8, 1985
Creator: Jenkins, Floyd; Scantlin, Clarence & Scantlin, Nona
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Partner: UNT Oral History Program
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Oral History Interview with Ben H. Wooten, 1969

Description: Interview with Ben H. Wooten, a banker, public servant, and philanthropist. The interview includes Wooten's observations on the growth and development of banking and finance in the Southwest. The interview also includes his experiences in service during World War I as well as his multiple positions within the banking industry, including: assistant cashier of the Alba National Bank in Alba, Texas, cashier of the Farmers and Merchants Bank in Farmersville, Texas, state bank examiner, Federal Home… more
Date: February 19, 1970
Creator: Marcello, Ronald E. & Wooten, Ben H.
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Partner: UNT Oral History Program

Oral History Interview with Linda Pina, April 8, 2013

Description: Interview with Linda Pina, a cousin of UNT interviewer Francis Bravo from Fort Worth, Texas, interviewed for for the Mexican American Women's Educational Experience project. Pina discusses growing up, school, her parents' divorce, and her own children and their education. In appendix is Bravo and Pina's family tree.
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Date: April 8, 2013
Creator: Bravo, Francis & Pina, Linda
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Partner: UNT Oral History Program

Oral History Interview with Anna Robinson, November 27, 2007

Description: Interview with Anna Robinson, a Women's Army Corps veteran from Fort Worth, Texas. Robinson discusses her family and childhood, joining the WAC, transfer to Germany as a supply clerk in 1946, life and work in that assignment, being in a car wreck, her sexuality and gays in the service, the Iraq War and George W. Bush, leaving the Army and work for the city of Forth Worth as an artist, her church involvement, and returning to Germany,
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Date: November 27, 2007
Creator: Quick, Janice L. & Robinson, Anna
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Partner: UNT Oral History Program
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Oral History Interview with William Hunter McLean, 1968

Description: Interview with William Hunter McLean, insurance executive, former chair of the Texas State board of Insurance (1963-68), and chairman of the Johnson-Humphrey campaign in Texas. The interview includes McLean's comments on the evolution of the State Board of Insurance, insurance scandals of the mid-1950s, fire and casualty rate-making, automobile insurance and the Johnson-Humphrey campaign in Texas.
Date: November 16, 1968
Creator: Odom, E. Dale & McLean, William Hunter
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Partner: UNT Oral History Program

Oral History Interview with Mari Collins, February 28, 2021

Description: Interview with Mari Collins, a resident of Fort Worth, Texas, to discuss experiences during the "Texas Blackout," the power and water outage that happened between February 14th and 18th of 2021 due to the winter storm. Collins describes how hey took their care of their pets during that time, how they interacted with their neighbors, and how they handled lack of water and electricity.
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Date: February 28, 2021
Creator: Crittenden, Micah Carlson & Collins, Mari
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Oral History Interview with Nicole Deluna, March 17, 2013

Description: Interview with Nicole Deluna, third generation of Bermejo women, for the Mexican American Women's Educational Experience Oral History Project. The interview includes Deluna's personal experiences of schooling in Fort Worth, Texas, as well as the meaning of high school graduation, reasons for not attending college, a discussion of cultural expectations of Mexican American women, her daughter's educational plans, and the benefit of an education in the workplace. The interview includes an appendix… more
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Date: March 17, 2013
Creator: Bravo, Francis & Deluna, Nicole
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Partner: UNT Oral History Program

Oral History Interview with Dulcie Barnier Dreyspring, December 4, 2012

Description: Interview with Dulcie Barnier Dreyspring, Australian-born immigrant to Fort Worth, Texas, for the DFW Metroplex Immigrants Oral History Project. The interview includes Dreyspring's personal experiences of childhood in Australia, interactions with American soldiers during World War II, the Japanese invasion of Australia, her first visit to the U.S., first impressions of America, her first marriage to an American, and her return to Australia for the immigration process. It also includes her impre… more
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Date: December 4, 2012
Creator: Bravo, Francis & Dreyspring, Dulcie Barnier
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Oral History Interview with Johnny Case, March 5, 2003

Description: Interview with jazz pianist Johnny Case. In the interview, Case talks about his family's acquaintance with Ernest Tubb, his early interest in rhythm and blues, how his parents, Elvis Presley, and local radio stations influenced his musical career, learning to play the piano and his interest in jazz, early gigs in Oklahoma and northeast Texas, his family's move from Paris, Texas to Dallas and his playing gigs at several clubs there, moving to Fort Worth, his collaboration with Tom Morrell in pro… more
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Date: March 5, 2003
Creator: Brown, Peggy Brandt & Case, Johnny
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Partner: UNT Oral History Program
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Oral History Interview with Charles Timlin, July 8, 1978

Description: Interview with Charles Timlin, a Navy WWII veteran from Fort Worth, Texas. Timlin discusses his experiences aboard the USS Vestal during the attack on Pearl Harbor, including is entry into the service, assignment to the Vestal, training and life on the ship, the night before the attack, events during the morning of the attack, and some details about service in the war afterwards.
Date: July 8, 1978
Creator: Marcello, Ronald E. & Timlin, Charles
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Partner: UNT Oral History Program

Oral History Interview with Curtis O. Greer, Jr., February 14, 1991

Description: Interview with Curtis O. Greer, Jr., a former member of the Civilian Conservation Corps from Fort Worth, Texas, regarding his experiences and memories of participating in the CCC during the Great Depression. An appendix with an outline for the interview is included.
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Date: February 14, 1991
Creator: Maschino, Ellen & Greer, Curtis O., Jr.
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Partner: UNT Oral History Program

Oral History Interview with Luther G. Strange, October 15, 1996

Description: Interview with Luther G. Strange, a United States Army veteran from Arlington, Texas, regarding his experiences and memories of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor of December 7, 1941 while stationed at Hickam Field as a member of the Army Medical Corps.
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Date: October 15, 1996
Creator: Blanchette, Scott & Strange, Luther G.
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Partner: UNT Oral History Program
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