Frontier and pioneer life.; Covered wagon trips.; Davy Crockett Survey (Hood County, Tex.).
Stories of the Crook and Noble families who travelled to Texas by covered wagon, settling in Hood County on property that had been given to Davy Crockett's widow. Also included is a separate interview on the same subject done November 18, 1977...
Saldana, John Jesse.; United States Army--Infantry.; Canary Islanders.; Mexican Americans.; New Mexico.; United States--Post Office Department.; Postmasters.; San Antonio (Tex.).
John Jesse Saldana, Sr., 13th generation born in San Antonio of Irish, Canary Islander, Spanish and English heritage, tells of family history, his work with United States Postal Service before his 1942 enlistment in Army, combat experience as...
Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald), 1917-1963--Assassination.; Oswald, Lee Harvey.
Edisen is a neurophysiologist with a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago. She has been involved in medical researching and teaching for several decades. In 1963, Edisen had interactions with Jose Rivera that led her to a different outcome...
Civil rights; African-Americans--Texas; African-Americans--Segregation; Dallas (Tex.); African Americans--Education--Texas; Church and social problems--Texas
Black Dallas educator Sadye Gee recalls the good and the bad of the city's gradual desegregation and the importance of the Hamilton Park neighborhood to Dallas' Black leadership.
University of Texas Institute of Texan Cultures at San Antonio; Exhibitions and museums; Shuffler, R. Henderson (Ralph Henderson), 1908--1975; Ransom, Harry Huntt, 1908-1976; Baker, Oscar Terrell, 1910-2006.
Davis shares his knowledge of the development of the Institute of Texan Cultures as a public museum, particularly the Folklife Festival, and relates background on the people and events involved in this process.
Okabayashi, Minoru.; Fujimoto, Mitsuo.; Japanese Americans--Texas.; Internment camp (Kenedy, Tex.).; World War, 1939-1945--Evacuation of civilians.
Houston, Texas.Webster, Texas. Interview is in two parts: 1) Minoru Okabayashi with Mitsuo Fujimoto translating; 2) Mitsuo Fujimoto. Okabayashi tells personal history of his arrival in California in 1917, move to Texas in 1920, farming experience,...
World War, 1939-1945--Journalists.; World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, American.
A retired combat reporter who served during World War II, the Korean War, and Vietnam, Sweeney describes the environment in which men serve during war and the shock of combat.
Doolittle, James Harold d 1896-.; World War, 1939-1945.; United States--Army Air Forces, 1942-1947.
Col. Edward J. York, USAF, Ret. describes his involvement in the April 18, 1942 Doolittle Raid on Tokyo, including preparation before the raid and his internment in Russia for fourteen months afterward.