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Oral History Interview with Marvin B. Edwards, March 6, 1971

Description: 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 incl… more
Date: March 6, 1971
Creator: Marcello, Ronald E. & Edwards, Marvin B., 1923-
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Partner: UNT Oral History Program

Oral History Interview with James W. Stroud, August 6, 1971

Description: 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.
Date: August 6, 1971
Creator: Marcello, Ronald E. & Stroud, James W.
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Partner: UNT Oral History Program

Oral History Interview with O. H. "Ike" Harris, July 6, 1971

Description: 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.
Date: July 6, 1971
Creator: Marcello, Ronald E. & Harris, Ike, 1932-
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Partner: UNT Oral History Program

[Letter from the Human Relations Commission of the City of Galveston, July 6, 1971]

Description: Letter from the Human Relations Commission of the City of Galveston discussing Mrs. Coldwell presenting ideas on how the Human Relations Commission should proceed in the future and Kempner expressing his belief that the Commission should put in a program that would allow white police officers to establish communications between themselves and black communities and black officers. Kempner further expresses his belief that everybody in Galveston should be able to trust and rely on the police.
Date: July 6, 1971
Creator: Human Relations Commission of the City of Galveston
Item Type: Refine your search to only Letter
Partner: Rosenberg Library
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