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Lesbian/Gay Political Coalition Dallas Mayor and City Council Election Candidate Screenings, February 22nd, 1987

Description: A recording of phone calls made by Jack Crout, of the Lesbian/Gay Political Coalition Dallas, to candidates seeking endorsement from the political organization to set up a time to be interviewed during their run for Dallas City Council positions in 1987. Mr. Crout explains that the candidates will have 15 minutes screening, three minutes for general statements and twelve minutes for general questioning; candidates include Roy Williams, Ronnie Le Rouge, Marvin Steakley, Irene Young, Lori Palmer… more
Date: February 22, 1987
Duration: 1 hour 12 seconds
Creator: Lesbian/Gay Political Coalition
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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History From the Bottom Up

Description: Sound recording of a talk at the 1977 Oral History Association Colloquium in San Diego titled "History From the Bottom Up".
Date: October 22, 1977
Duration: 1 hour 31 minutes 11 seconds
Creator: Oral History Association
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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Interviewing Techniques

Description: Sound recording of a talk titled "Interviewing Techniques" given during the 1977 Oral History Association Colloquium in San Diego, California. The talk is specifically about techniques of mass media interviewing.
Date: October 22, 1977
Duration: 1 hour 31 minutes 18 seconds
Creator: Oral History Association
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[3rd Oral History Association Colloquium Meeting]

Description: Sound recording of two different talks held during the 3rd National Oral History Association Colloquium at the University of Nebraska in Lincoln, Nebraska. The first talk was recorded on Friday November 22, 1968 with Dr. Philip Crowl, and the second was recorded on Saturday November 23, 1968 and features Dr. Shoshnile, Dr. Louis Starr, and Walter Lord.
Date: 1968-11-22/1968-11-23
Duration: 3 hours 34 minutes 08 seconds
Creator: Oral History Association
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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Film History

Description: Sound recording of a talk titled "Reel-on-Reel Film History" given at the 1977 Oral History Association Colloquium in San Diego, California.
Date: October 22, 1977
Duration: 1 hour 16 minutes 36 seconds
Creator: Oral History Association
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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Reliability of Memory

Description: Sound recording of a talk titled "Reliability of Memory" given during the 1977 Oral History Association Colloquium in San Diego, California.
Date: October 22, 1977
Duration: 1 hour 16 minutes 25 seconds
Creator: Oral History Association
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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Philanthropic Foundations

Description: Sound recording of a talk titled "Philanthropic Foundations" recorded during the 1977 Oral History Association Colloquium in San Diego, California.
Date: October 22, 1977
Duration: 1 hour 36 minutes 01 second
Creator: Oral History Association
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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Oral History Interview with Al Flocke, October 22, 2000

Description: Interview with Al Flocke, a radio operator during World War II. He discusses his flight training and being the radio operator on a B-24 bomber which did raids on Guam, Turk, Iwo Jima and other islands. He also relates anecdotes about food, rations, and living conditions on the islands.
Date: October 22, 2000
Duration: 50 minutes 23 seconds
Creator: Nichols, Chuck & Flocke, Al
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation
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Oral History Interview with Frank Crain, June 22, 2000

Description: The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with Frank Crain. Crain left law school to join the Army Air Forces in January 1942. He was assigned to an ordnance detachment with the 3rd Air Depot Group in Agra, India, where he loaded ammunition onto trains. He was transferred to Karachi, where he made reusable practice bombs out of tin cans and sand. He applied to OCS and returned to the States in April 1943. As an Infantry officer he taught math, reading, and ordnance use. … more
Date: June 22, 2000
Duration: 1 hour 19 minutes 38 seconds
Creator: Crain, Frank
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation
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Oral History Interview with Charles Mellon, August 22, 2003

Description: The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an interview with Charles Mellon. Mellon joined the Army in March of 1944. He was assigned to the 314th Infantry Regiment, 79th Infantry Division, and participated in active duty through France and into the Siegfried Line in December. They continued their combat duty into Germany, and served on occupation duty after the war ended. Mellon returned to the US and was discharged in October of 1945.
Date: August 22, 2003
Duration: 1 hour 20 minutes 05 seconds
Creator: Mellon, Charles
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation
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Oral History Interview with Iliff D. Richardson, February 22, 1997

Description: The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with Iliff Richardson. Richardson was commissioned in the Navy in 1940 and assigned to Motor Torpedo Boat Squadron 3 as the executive officer of PT-34. After the loss of his boat in April 1942, he joined a band of Filipino guerrillas. Richardson tells of setting up radio transmitters and of the unusual features of the operations and equipment used. At the request of General Douglas MacArthur he plotted the Japanese mine fields in… more
Date: February 22, 1997
Duration: 53 minutes 19 seconds
Creator: Richardson, Iliff D.
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation
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Oral History Interview with Bill Sheehan, March 22, 2001

Description: The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an interview with Bill Sheehan. Sheehan joined the Navy in June of 1933. Beginning October of 1943, he served as Quartermaster aboard USS Porterfield (DD-682). In February of 1944, they provided shore bombardment in the Marshalls. In April, they screened escort carriers during the Marianas invasion, and participated in the Guam Campaign in August. Sheehan provides details of their invasion of Saipan in June and Okinawa in April of 1945. He returne… more
Date: March 22, 2001
Duration: 1 hour 19 minutes 20 seconds
Creator: Sheehan, Bill
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation
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Oral History Interview with Don Lamanna, November 22, 2000

Description: The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with Don Lamanna. Lamanna joined the Navy in November 1942 and was transferred to hospital corps school in Alabama, where he tended to casualties of flight training. He then attended field medical school at Camp Elliot. Upon completion, he was assigned to a medical battalion in the V Amphibious Corps where he worked as an orderly in hospitals. He landed on Saipan on the eighth day of the invasion and worked at an abandoned Japane… more
Date: November 22, 2000
Duration: 46 minutes 49 seconds
Creator: Lamanna, Don
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation
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Oral History Interview with James D. Dukes, October 22, 2002

Description: The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an interview with James Dukes. Born in Alabama, Dukes quit school in 1937 to join the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC). In March 1941, he joined the Marine Corps, and was sent to San Diego for boot camp. Dukes was then assigned to Company C, 1st Battalion, 8th Marines where he received mortar training. On 6 June 1942, he boarded the SS Lurline bound for Pago Pago, Samoa. During November 1942 the unit merged with the 2nd Marine Division when they … more
Date: October 22, 2002
Duration: 2 hours 38 minutes 56 seconds
Creator: Dukes, James D
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation
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Oral History Interview with Israel Berger, May 22, 2008

Description: The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with Israel Berger. While attending medical school, Berger took an officer’s correspondence course with the Navy in May 1942. After interning at the Norfolk Naval Hospital and completing the V-12 program, he boarded the USS Drew (APA-162) as a general medical officer, traveling between Oahu and Saipan. Berger was relieved to be treated kindly despite being one of only two Jewish men on his ship. Despite having grown up in a koshe… more
Date: May 22, 2008
Duration: 48 minutes 29 seconds
Creator: Berger, Israel
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation
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Oral History Interview with Robert Bass, May 22, 2008

Description: The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with Robert G. Bass. Bass was born in Walnut, Illinois on 18 November 1922. He was drafted into the Army in February 1943. After three months of basic and combat military police training at Fort Riley, Kansas, Bass was accepted in the Army Specialized Training Program at the University of Indiana. The program was disbanded in early 1944 and Bass was sent first to an armored infantry unit and then to the 243rd Combat Engineers, tr… more
Date: May 22, 2008
Duration: 2 hours 1 minute 17 seconds
Creator: Bass, Robert G.
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation
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Oral History Interview with James C. Chandler, July 22, 2008

Description: The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an interview with James C Chandler. Chandler joined the Marine Corps in the spring of 1943. He was assigned to the 1st Armored Amphibian Battalion. Chandler participated in the battles of Guam and Okinawa. He returned to the US and was discharged in December of 1945
Date: July 22, 2008
Duration: 1 hour 33 minutes 02 seconds
Creator: Chandler, James C
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation
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Oral History Interview with James L. Bell, Jr., August 22, 2008

Description: The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with James L. Bell, Jr. He joined the Marine Corps in August, 1944. After basic training in California, he was sent to the Parker Ranch in Hawaii where he practiced maneuvers. He describes landing on Red Beach and fighting on Iwo Jima when he was in the 5th Marine Division. He discusses the placement of the American flag on the island, the Japanese tunnels, and the suicides of Japanese soldiers. After Iwo Jima, he joined the 2nd … more
Date: August 22, 2008
Duration: 1 hour 2 minutes 56 seconds
Creator: Bell, James L., Jr.
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation
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Oral History Interview with John Espie, February 22, 2008

Description: The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with John Espie. Although Espie was enrolled at Indiana University and joined the Army ROTC with intentions of being commissioned, he grew anxious about the draft and decided to enlist in the Navy in December 1942. Upon completion of quartermaster school, he embarked on amphibious training and was assigned to USS LST-734. He was at the helm in the Panama Canal and was an expert in dead reckoning at sea. At Guadalcanal he was trai… more
Date: February 22, 2008
Duration: 37 minutes 25 seconds
Creator: Espie, John
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation
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Oral History Interview with Gerard Noteboom, January 22, 2010

Description: The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with Gerard Noteboom. Noteboom was a child living near The Hague when his father was taken away by the Gestapo and sent to Buchenwald. From December 1940 to September 1944, his father remained active in resistance groups while interned. Meanwhile, the Dutch underground provided financial assistance to Noteboom's family. Noteboom prudently invested in salt, a valuable commodity that could be easily traded for food. He also activel… more
Date: January 22, 2010
Duration: 1 hour 15 minutes 59 seconds
Creator: Noteboom, Gerard
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation
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Oral History Interview with Robert Wesley Clum, April 22, 2010

Description: The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an interview with Robert Wesley Clum. Clum joined the Army Air Forces in February of 1943. He served as a Bombardier aboard a B-24 Liberator with the 484th Bomb Group, 827th Bomb Squadron. In October of 1944 they traveled to Bari, Italy to the headquarters of the 15th Air Force. They completed 25 combat missions, traveling over Germany, Czechoslovakia, northern Italy and Libya. Clum was honorably discharged from active duty as lieutenant in 1945, … more
Date: April 22, 2010
Duration: 32 minutes 28 seconds
Creator: Clum, Robert Wesley
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation
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Oral History Interview with Donald Bentley, February 22, 2011

Description: The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with Donald Bentley. Bentley joined the Navy in 1942 and went through the V-12 program. He was assigned to the Seabees. Bentley was trained on ship loading and unloading and joined the 30th Special NCB stateside. He was transferred to the 4th Special NCB and traveled to Okinawa. Bentley describes the work that his unit performed and life on Okinawa at the end of the war. He left the service after four years in March 1946.
Date: February 22, 2011
Duration: 46 minutes 21 seconds
Creator: Bentley, Donald
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation
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Oral History Interview with Gordon Sage, February 22, 2011

Description: The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an interview with Gordon Sage. Sage joined the Marine Corps in mid-1941. He served aboard USS Maryland (BB-46) as an orderly for Rear Admiral Walter Stratton Anderson, commander of battleships in the Pacific Fleet. Sage was aboard the ship the morning of 7 December. They were moored along Ford Island, with USS Oklahoma (BB-37) on Battleship Row. Sage describes his experiences through the attack, including passing ammunition down a line to the anti… more
Date: February 22, 2011
Duration: 1 hour 8 minutes 25 seconds
Creator: Sage, Gordon
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation
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Oral History Interview with Murven J. Witherel, June 22, 2011

Description: Transcript of an oral interview with Murven J. Witherel. He grew up in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and graduated from Allegheny High School in 1939. He went to work for a untility company before being drafted into the Army in February 1942. He qualified for Officer Candidate School (OCS) after Basic Training at Fort McClellan, Alabama. He was commissioned a 2nd lieutenant at Fort Benning, Georgia in December 1942. He was then assigned as the leader of 3rd Platoon, Company E, 20th Infantry,6th Infa… more
Date: June 22, 2011
Duration: 39 minutes 49 seconds
Creator: Witherel, Murven J.
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation
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