Texas Oral History Collection - 13 Matching Results
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- Oral History Interview with Merle Newbauer, December 6, 1976
- Interview with Navy veteran Merle Newbauer. The interview includes Newbauer's personal experiences while aboard the battleship USS Maryland during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
- Oral History Interview with L. B. Luckenbach, December 6, 1978
- Interview with Navy veteran L. B. Luckenbach. The interview includes Luckenbach's personal experiences while aboard the battleship USS California during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
- Oral History Interview with Steele M. McDonald, January 6, 1977
- Interview with Steele M. McDonald, a resident of Baytown, Texas since approximately 1920. Topics include early Baytown, TX history through consolidation to the present.
- Oral History Interview with Jack Blanton, December 6, 1972
- Interview with Representative Jack Blanton, Democratic Texas State legislator from Carrollton, Texas. Blanton discusses his experiences in the second, third, and fourth special sessions of the 62nd Legislature, including funding state primaries, the election of house speaker Rayford Price, Governor Preston Smith's budget proposal, insurance rate making, the State Insurance Commission, and the Texas insurance industry.
- Oral History Interview with Fred J. Agnich, January 6, 1972
- Interview with Representative Fred Agnich, a Republican Texas state legislator from Minnesota. Agnich discusses his childhood and education; moving to Texas and becoming a statesman; lobbying and how to control its influence; staffing in government offices; reform of the legislating process; his thoughts on proposed ethics legislation; single-member and multi-member congressional districts; party dynamics in the legislature; the "Dirty Thirty" and the Sharpestown scandal; reform of the insurance industry; and voter registration.
- Oral History Interview with O. R. Sparkman, May 6, 1971
- Interview with O.R. Sparkman, a Marine WWII veteran and POW from Dallas, Texas. Stationed in China before the war, Sparkman was captured in December 1941 by the Japanese in Beijing and interned at various camps in occupied China and Korea before finishing the war at Hakodate, Japan.
- Oral History Interview with James W. Stroud, August 6, 1971
- Interview with James Stroud, who was an employee of the Dallas Cotton Exchange and Home Owners Loan Corporation, from Dallas, Texas. Stroud recounts his experience during the Great Depression and New Deal era in the DFW area, including his father's meat processing business, the beginnings of HOLC in Dallas, the kind's of people they assisted, the terms for HOLC loans, government finance, and his opinions of Franklin Roosevelt.
- Oral History Interview with O. H. "Ike" Harris, July 6, 1971
- Interview with Senator Ike Harris, a Republican Texas state legislator from Dallas, Texas. Harris discusses the first regular session of the 62nd State Legislature in early 1971, including his response to Governor Smith's bond financing plan, his thoughts on Governor Smith as a statesman, state tuition, taxation, education reform, the Sharpstown case, and redistricting.
- Oral History Interview with John A. Murphy, December 6, 1974
- Interview with John Murphy, a Navy veteran, concerning his experiences aboard the repair ship USS Vestal during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
- Oral History Interview with Marvin B. Edwards, March 6, 1971
- Interview with Marvin B. Edwards, chemist and Army Air Corps veteran (95th Bombardment Group, 8th Air Force), concerning his experiences as a prisoner-of-war of the Germans after being shot down over Nazi-occupied Europe during World War II. Edwards discusses his rescue by the Belgian underground, his capture and interrogation (1944), solitary confinement, Stalag Luft 3, Sagan, Germany, Nürnberg (Stalag 13-D) and Moosburg (Stalag 7-A) (1945), and his liberation by American troops. Appendix includes Edwards' dossier at Oflag Luft Three, Excerpts from Edwards' prison diary, and Edwards' escape map.
- Oral History Interview with Charles H. Horner, August 6, 1978
- Interview with Charles H. Horner, a United States Navy veteran from Fayetteville, Arkansas. Horner discusses his recollections aboard the USS Cassin during the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
- Oral History Interview with Marvin V. Wingrove, December 6, 1978
- Interview with Marvin V. Wingrove, a United States Army veteran from Tucumcari, New Mexico. Wingrove recollects his experiences with the 17th Air Base Squadron stationed at Hickam Field during the Japanese attack there and on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
- Oral History Interview with Senator Betty Andujar, September 6, 1979
- 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.