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Oral History Interview with Pete and Jessie Mendez, June 6, 2016

Description: Pedro "Pete" Mendez was born in South Texas and arrived in the Texas Panhandle through migrant labor with his parents in the 1930s. His father died in Clarendon, TX and he was raised between Amarillo and Tucumcari, NM. He joined the Marines during WWII and served in Northern China. Upon returning, he began a small construction business and helped start the Hispanic Chamber of Commerce. He spoke on the opportunities he and other minority business owners had through government grants and contract… more
Date: June 6, 2016
Duration: 45 minutes 44 seconds
Creator: Wisely, Karen; Zapata, Joel; Mendez, Pete & Mendez, Jessie
Item Type: Refine your search to only Video
Partner: TCU Mary Couts Burnett Library

Oral History Interview with Alan Fouts, December 6, 2001

Description: The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an interview with Alan Fouts. Fouts joined the Navy in 1939 and trained in San Diego. Upon completion of basic training, Fouts joined the USS Argonne (AG-31). Later, he was stationed at the submarine base at Pearl Harbor when the war started. He recalls witnessing the Japanese attack Pearl Harbor. He managed to get guns operational on the USS Widgeon (AM-22) before it got underway during the attack. Between the attacks, Fouts went alongside the US… more
Date: December 6, 2001
Creator: Fouts, Alan
Item Type: Refine your search to only Text
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation

Tucumcari

Description: Topographic map of a portion of Texas from the United States Geological Survey (USGS) project. The map includes towns, historic or notable sites, bodies of water, and other geologic features. Scale 1:250000
Date: 1978
Creator: Geological Survey (U.S.)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Map
Location: 35.50 -103.00
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

[News Script: FBI]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about FBI agents who arrested a 45-year-old man on charges of attempting to exhort $150,000 from the Santa Fe Railway.
Date: April 24, 1974, 6:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Script
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Santa Fe]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about a 45-year-old man who is in jail after allegedly threatening to wreck Santa Fe railroad trains between Los Angeles and Chicago.
Date: April 24, 1974, 10:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Script
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Texas Weather]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story of heavy thunderstorms which are mixed with widespread showers along a cold front moving through the Texas coastal plains and in areas behind the front in east, south and west Texas.
Date: January 23, 1974, 8:25 a.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Script
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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