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[News Script: Italy/ China]
Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story.
[Letter from Fred H. Rayner to Harris Leon Kempner, May 18, 1959]
Letter from Fred H. Rayner to Harris Leon Kempner enclosing a copy of letter regarding export subsidy, and a clipping that his father has requested. Then he goes on talking about the cotton business.
[News Script: World currency]
Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story.
Visitors Entertained in 1960
Document listing the names, geographical or business affiliation, and dates of visitors entertained by a member of the Kempner family.
[Letter from Harris Leon Kempner to David F. Weston, October 4, 1960]
Letter from Harris Leon Kempner to David F. Weston informing about ordering Maniya Camera and sharing the receipt, and discussing about their travel plans.
Oral History Interview with Henry Kalinofsky, February 17, 2001
The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with Henry Kalinofsky of Annapolis, Maryland. He discusses when he was first inducted into the Navy and being a plank owner aboard DE 581. USS MCNULTY. He also discusses his time aboard the USS LSM(R) 198 manning the 40mm Twin Mount and loading rockets in Okinawa, Japan, after the invasion of Normandy. Mr. Kalinofsky describes an attack he was involved in off the coast of Okinawa.
Oral History Interview with Henry Kalinofsky, February 17, 2001
The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with Henry Kalinofsky of Annapolis, Maryland. He discusses when he was first inducted into the Navy and being a plank owner aboard DE 581. USS MCNULTY. He also discusses his time aboard the USS LSM(R) 198 manning the 40mm Twin Mount and loading rockets in Okinawa, Japan, after the invasion of Normandy. Mr. Kalinofsky describes an attack he was involved in off the coast of Okinawa.
[News Script: Europe]
Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about foreign minister and finance officials meetings in Rome, Italy, a delegation of North Koreans visiting South Korea, and Lord Killanin taking over as the president of the International Olympic Committee.
[Letter from I.H. to Cecile Kempner, 1953]
Letter to Cecile from her father about his trip to New York, his cotton, shipments to other countries, economics, and government.
[News Script: News in Vietnam and Venice]
Photocopy of a script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story.
[News Script: Vietnam/ Mintoff]
Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story.
[News Script: Vietnam/ Italy]
Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story.
[Letter from Harris Leon Kempner to Foreign Assets Control Department, April 21, 1960]
Letter from Harris Leon Kempner to Foreign Assets Control Department regarding the notice 167 he received from the Bureau of Customs, El Paso about a small package of plain white silk he ordered from Hong Kong. He mentions that he didn't know that a certificate was required, but now he filled the form as advised.
[News Script: Nixon]
Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about president Nixon who has returned to the U. S from a weekend in Paris where he attended a memorial service for the late French president Georges Pompidou.
[News Script: International update]
Photocopy of a script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story.
[News Script: International relations and military updates]
Photocopy of a script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story.
[News Script: Easter]
Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story.
[Letter from Harris Leon Kempner to D, W. Kempner, May 17, 1948]
Letter from Harris Leon Kempner to Daniel W. Kempner discussing business in Europe and proposing he visit Jacques Westphalen in Paris to offer to sell them 5,000 bales of cotton a month.
[Letter from I. H. Kempner to Mr. Gwilym A. Price, March 6, 1954]
Letter from I. H. Kempner to Mr. Gwilym A. Price discussing his disapproval of Price and Westinghouse Electric Corporation's asks for the imposition of tariffs to prevent the U.S. government or citizens from buying foreign electrical products at a cheaper price while providing evidence to support his statements.
[Letter from Mrs. Frank W. Scott to Cecelia McKie - June 7, 1943]
Letter sent from Mrs. Frank D. Scott to Cecelia McKie thanking her for the message and stating she had given Frances (her daughter) and Luis Backleder (her son-in-law) up for dead. She mentions other family members, daughter Evelyn Cherry and son-in-law Ralph Cherry, in the Philippines. Her other son-in-law Ralph (Bob) Bouth is also a prisoner. She mentions she has not heard directly from Ralph (Bouth) or Evelyn. Envelope addressed to Mrs. William L. McKie, Sacramento, California from Venice, California. Envelope is postmarked Pasadena, California.
[News Script: Violence]
Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story.
[News Script: Officer]
Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about in Cambodia where warplanes bombed positions 10- 15 miles from Phnom Penh in the heaviest raids ever felt in the capital.
[News Script: International War Update]
Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story.
[Letter from Harris Leon Kempner to D. W. Kempner, August 29, 1950]
Letter from Harris Leon Kempner to D. W. Kempner discussing business affairs related to cotton trading. He also reports a lack of communication from a trade partner, sales to Japan, purchase of cotton bales from the Commodity Credit Corporation, and trading activities in the Waco region and Sugar Land lots.
[News Script: This just in...]
Photocopy of a script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story.
[News Script: Presidential tour and Vietnam updates]
Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story.
[News Script: Prisoners of war stuck]
Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story.
[News Script: Change of command]
Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about the Marine air reserve training detachment which has a new boss, following change of command ceremonies.
[Letter from Wright Armstrong to I. H. Kempner, March 4, 1963]
Letter from Wright Armstrong to I. H. Kempner conveying his travel plans to Europe and arrangements to meet any friends of Mr. I. H. Kempner along the way. He mentions a forthcoming itinerary and a flight from Los Angeles to Tokyo, then a journey to Hong Kong and Naples via ship through the Suez Canal.
[News Script: News Bulletins November 11, 1969]
Photocopy of a script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story.
[News Script: News bulletins]
Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story.
[News Script: International news bulletins]
Photocopy of a script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story.
[News Script: Misc news bulletins]
Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story.
[Letter from D. W. Kempner to H. Kempner, October 6, 1950]
Letter from D. W. Kempner to H. Kempner responding to a variety of financial, political, and family events that he has been informed of while in Paris and away from his office in Galveston, including his attempts to navigate the Italian cotton market.
[News Script: Hearts & Hanoi]
Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas relating a news story.
[News Script: News on Veterans, strikes, and politics]
Photocopy of a script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story.
Oral History Interview with Glenn E. McDuffie, January 21, 2008
Interview with Glenn E. McDuffie, an Armed Guard in the U. S. Navy during World War II. He discusses lying about his age in order to join the navy at 15 and his experience in boot camp. He served as an Armed Guard on merchant ships that transported supplies across the Atlantic and remembers being in London while German bombers flew overhead. He transported German prisoners out of Marseilles and Naples shortly after the liberation of those cities. He remembers going to Times Square upon hearing that the Japanese had surrendered. He claims to have been the sailor in the iconic photo of the sailor kissing the nurse in Times Square on V-J Day. He describes how he proved he was the sailor in the photo, what he did after the war, and how he learned that his brother survived the Bataan Death March.
Arbuckles' illustrated atlas of fifty principal nations of the world.
Atlas shows illustrations of nations throughout the world with brief descriptions.
Oral History Interview with A. N. Wiseman, March 29, 2011
The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with Al Wiseman. Wiseman joined the Navy in 1942 and was assigned to the USS Greene (AVD-13). He served as a deck seaman and stood lookout while on watch. Wiseman discusses traveling as an escort to Brazil and then travelling to the Mediterranean. He describes taking part in the invasion of Southern France. The Greene was then sent to the Pacific and performed escort duty near Okinawa. He describes seeing several Japanese air attacks on ships that were nearby. Wiseman traveled to Japan at the end of the war to pick up POWs. He also visited Nagasaki. Wiseman describes how his ship was critically damaged when it ran aground during a typhoon in October of 1945. He served on two more ships working in engineering before getting out of the Navy in 1948.
Oral History Interview with A. N. Wiseman, March 29, 2011
The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with Al Wiseman. Wiseman joined the Navy in 1942 and was assigned to the USS Greene (AVD-13). He served as a deck seaman and stood lookout while on watch. Wiseman discusses traveling as an escort to Brazil and then travelling to the Mediterranean. He describes taking part in the invasion of Southern France. The Greene was then sent to the Pacific and performed escort duty near Okinawa. He describes seeing several Japanese air attacks on ships that were nearby. Wiseman traveled to Japan at the end of the war to pick up POWs. He also visited Nagasaki. Wiseman describes how his ship was critically damaged when it ran aground during a typhoon in October of 1945. He served on two more ships working in engineering before getting out of the Navy in 1948.
Oral History Interview with Afton Keeton, August 30, 2007
The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an interview with Afton Keeton. Keeton joined the Navy in July of 1942. He completed Hospital Corps School and became a Pharmacist Mate. He first served aboard the USS Sea Dragon (SS-194). They patrolled the Aleutian Islands. He was then stationed at the Submarine Base in Pearl Harbor, working in a sick bay. He then served aboard the USS Apollo (AS-25) with a relief crew. He provides some detail of working aboard a submarine, serving as the Doc, living conditions and undergoing his own appendectomy aboard the Apollo. In early 1945 he was assigned for 1 year to serve at a submarine base in St. Thomas. He then served as hospital corpsman on the USS Clamagore (SS-343). Keeton also worked on sonar watch, radar watch and as a cook during his time in the Navy. He spent a total of 30 years in the Navy, retiring in February of 1972.
Oral History Interview with Afton Keeton, August 30, 2007
The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an interview with Afton Keeton. Keeton joined the Navy in July of 1942. He completed Hospital Corps School and became a Pharmacist Mate. He first served aboard the USS Sea Dragon (SS-194). They patrolled the Aleutian Islands. He was then stationed at the Submarine Base in Pearl Harbor, working in a sick bay. He then served aboard the USS Apollo (AS-25) with a relief crew. He provides some detail of working aboard a submarine, serving as the Doc, living conditions and undergoing his own appendectomy aboard the Apollo. In early 1945 he was assigned for 1 year to serve at a submarine base in St. Thomas. He then served as hospital corpsman on the USS Clamagore (SS-343). Keeton also worked on sonar watch, radar watch and as a cook during his time in the Navy. He spent a total of 30 years in the Navy, retiring in February of 1972.
Oral History Interview with Adolph Krchnak, May 23, 2015
The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an interview with Adolph Krchnak. Krchnak joined the Army in December of 1944. He completed parachute school. In late 1944, early 1945 he was stationed in the Philippines with the 11th Airborne Division. They served in a traditional infantry role in the Philippines. His division participated in the Liberation of Manila in the spring of 1945. In August of 1945 they traveled into southern Japan as part of the occupation force. He was honorably discharged in 1946.
Oral History Interview with Adolph Krchnak, May 23, 2015
The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an interview with Adolph Krchnak. Krchnak joined the Army in December of 1944. He completed parachute school. In late 1944, early 1945 he was stationed in the Philippines with the 11th Airborne Division. They served in a traditional infantry role in the Philippines. His division participated in the Liberation of Manila in the spring of 1945. In August of 1945 they traveled into southern Japan as part of the occupation force. He was honorably discharged in 1946.
Oral History Interview with Al D'Agostino, April 19, 2012
The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with Al D’Agostino. D’Agostino joined the Merchant Marine in 1945 and received training in Brooklyn. Upon completion, he was assigned to the SS Monterey where he worked as a butcher. His first trip to the Pacific was transporting European troops, who were unhappy about the looming invasion of Japan. The war ended while the Monterey was in transit, and the soldiers returning home were a much happier bunch. Even more joyful was the reunion of families when the Monterey picked up war brides and their babies from all over the Pacific and brought them back to the States. He transferred to a Liberty ship that brought German war criminals back to the States from South America, although he believes that the majority of the passengers were actually concentration camp survivors. D’Agostino was discharged but was drafted again during the Korean War and served as a radio relay operator atop a mountain in dangerous and harsh winter conditions. When he was discharged a second time, he applied his kitchen experience and attended Cornell’s hotel school. D’Agostino became the director of food service for Trans World Airlines. Before retiring, he moved to American Airlines, overseeing 6,000 people in 40 kitchens worldwide.
Oral History Interview with Al D'Agostino, April 19, 2012
The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with Al D’Agostino. D’Agostino joined the Merchant Marine in 1945 and received training in Brooklyn. Upon completion, he was assigned to the SS Monterey where he worked as a butcher. His first trip to the Pacific was transporting European troops, who were unhappy about the looming invasion of Japan. The war ended while the Monterey was in transit, and the soldiers returning home were a much happier bunch. Even more joyful was the reunion of families when the Monterey picked up war brides and their babies from all over the Pacific and brought them back to the States. He transferred to a Liberty ship that brought German war criminals back to the States from South America, although he believes that the majority of the passengers were actually concentration camp survivors. D’Agostino was discharged but was drafted again during the Korean War and served as a radio relay operator atop a mountain in dangerous and harsh winter conditions. When he was discharged a second time, he applied his kitchen experience and attended Cornell’s hotel school. D’Agostino became the director of food service for Trans World Airlines. Before retiring, he moved to American Airlines, overseeing 6,000 people in 40 kitchens worldwide.
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