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[News Script: Prisoners of war]

Description: Photocopy of a script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about prisoners of war being picked up and a discussion over Jane Fonda's anti war broadcast.
Date: September 15, 1972, 6:30 a.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

Oral History Interview with Marvin E. Tilghman, September 6, 1978

Description: Interview with Marvin Tilghman, an Army veteran (2nd Battalion, 131st Field Artillery, Texas National Guard) and a member of the "Lost Battalion," concerning his experiences as a prisoner-of-war of the Japanese during World War II. Tilghman discusses the fall of Java and his capture, Bicycle Camp in Batavia (1942), Changi Prison Camp in Singapore (1942), building the Burma-Thailand Death Railway (1942-1944), Kanchanaburi, Thailand (1944), Saigon and Da Lat, French Indo-China (1944-1945), Americ… more
Date: September 6, 1978
Creator: Marcello, Ronald E. & Tilghman, Marvin E., 1917-
Partner: UNT Oral History Program
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