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Oral History Interview with Ed L. Gilley, September 27, 1985

Description: Interview with Ed L. Gilley, the owner of a grocery store in Miller Grove, Texas. The Interview discusses his family background; his father's employment experiences in Louisiana; farming in Hopkins County, Texas in the 1920s and 1930s; his purchase of a building and the establishment of his hardware and grocery store in Miller Grove in 1933; the merchandise; the relocation of the building in Miller Grove in 1939; credit practices; talks about the competition in Miller Grove; his appointment as … more
Date: September 27, 1985
Creator: Jenkins, Floyd & Gilley, Ed L.
Partner: UNT Oral History Program

[Letter from Cecil Brown Jr. to Helen and Brooks Brown, September 10, 1943]

Description: Letter from Cecil Brown Jr. to Brooks and Helen Brown discussing general points of interest, such as the mail he has received, his recent hospital stay, wishing Brooks luck on his position as a private in the army, how long he has been in the Pacific area and recent news about Helen and Brooks.
Date: September 10, 1943
Creator: Brown, Cecil G., Jr.
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation

[Letter from Asa Porter to Jane Porter - September 25, 1944]

Description: Letter from Asa Porter to his sister Jane about his time in the United States Army. This letter discusses how he has been reading books to pass the time. He talks about listening to the radio and how they feel things in the war are changing. The envelope is included.
Date: September 25, 1944
Creator: Porter, Asa C., Jr.
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation

Oral History Interview with Pat Yates Spillman, September 13, 1999

Description: Interview with Pat Yates Spillman, Army Air Forces veteran (326th Squadron, 92nd Bomb Group, 8th Air Force), concerning his experiences as a B-17 bombardier in the European Theater during World War II. Enlistment into the Aviation Cadet Program, February, 1943; basic training, Sheppard Field, Wichita Falls, Texas, 1943; Aviation Cadet Classification Center, Nashville, Tennessee, 1943; pre-flight training, Ellington Field, Houston, Texas, 1943; flexible gunnery school, Eagle Pass, Texas, 1943; b… more
Date: September 13, 1999
Creator: Marcello, Ronald E. & Spillman, Pat Yates
Partner: UNT Oral History Program

[Correspondence Between W. F. Raymond and Barbara Jordan - September 4-11, 1973]

Description: Letter from the executive director of the American Lung Association of Louisiana asking Barbara Jordan to vote to override the presidential veto on the Emergancy Medical Services Act of 1973 with a reply from Jordan saying that she will vote to override the veto. Included are copies of newspaper clippings regarding the vetoed bill, Public Health Hospitals, and Veterans Administration hospitals.
Date: 1973-09-04/1973-09-11
Creator: Jordan, Barbara, 1936-1996 & Raymond, W. Findley
Partner: Texas Southern University

Oral History Interview with Anne Sloan, September 11, 2000

Description: The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with Anne Sloan. Sloan grew up in Oregon and joined the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps in 1944. She spent time at Fort Des Moines, Iowa; Plattsburgh, New York; Camp Davis, North Carolina; Lexington, Virginia; and San Antonio, Texas before she left the service in 1946. She was at Times Square, New York City on V-E Day. After the service, she used the GI Bill to attend the University of Texas at Austin, where she met her husband. She… more
Date: September 11, 2000
Creator: Sloan, Anne
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation

Oral History Interview with Glennon Ryan, September 16, 1988

Description: Interview with Glennon Ryan, a United States Navy veteran from Saint Louis, Missouri, regarding his experiences and memories of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor of December 7, 1941 while stationed at Ford Island Naval Air Station as a member of the Assembly and Repair Division.
Date: September 16, 1988
Creator: Marcello, Ronald E. & Ryan, Glennon
Partner: UNT Oral History Program

[Letter from I. H. Kempner to Louis Gottlieb, September 28, 1948]

Description: Letter from I. H. Kempner to Louis Gottlieb discussing the shared issues Jewish people in Galveston and Baton Rouge face and insisting that Gottlieb continues to champion organizations like the American Jewish Committee and the Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith to help combat anti-Semitism.
Date: September 28, 1948
Creator: Kempner, Isaac H. (Isaac Herbert), 1873-1967
Partner: Rosenberg Library

[Letter from A. H. Blackshear, Jr. to Robert Lee Kempner, Daniel W. Kempner. and I. H. Kempner, September 20, 1948]

Description: Letter from A. H. Blackshear, Jr. to I. H. Kempner, Daniel W. Kempner, and Robert Lee Kempner explaining the current value of Galveston, New York, New Orleans, and Liverpool Cotton Exchange companies and discussing the change in shares advised by the Liverpool Cotton Exchange.
Date: September 20, 1948
Creator: Blackshear, A. H., Jr.
Partner: Rosenberg Library

[News Script: Ship Fire]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story of highly-toxic chemicals where on one hand firemen feared were endangered aboard a burning freighter 50 miles south of New Orleans, now found safety stored on a dock.
Date: September 3, 1973, 10:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Delia]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story of the Texas Gulf Coast which is bracing itself for a morning visit by tropical storm Delia, after a course change sent the storm headed toward Galveston-Freeport landfall.
Date: September 3, 1973, 10:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Delia]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story of tropical storm Delia which continues to gather strength and move towards the Gulf Coast, emergency preparations are underway from Houston to Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
Date: September 3, 1973, 6:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Texas A&M]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story of a record 34 young women begin Veterinary studies at Texas A & M University.
Date: September 3, 1973, 6:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Fugitive Arrested]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story of one of the FBI's ten most wanted fugitive was arrested in New Orleans.
Date: September 2, 1973, 10:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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