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Interview No. 420, Bernardo Villegas

Combined Interviews

Biographical data; school years; College of Mines; Mexican Revolution; job experiences; the Depression; Prohibition; the word Chicano; opinions on the Chicano Movement and undocumented workers; old El Paso streetcars; the Chinese community in El Paso; entertainment in old El Paso; some old-time El Paso doctors.

Interview No. 303, Border Studies Conference

Combined Interviews

No abstract provided.

Interview No. 428, Ygnacia Delgado

Combined Interviews

Datos Biograficos; los minerales de Cusihuiriachic; la entrevista Diaz-Taft en El Paso en 1909; las experiencias de su familia durante la Revolucion Mexicana y su vida como refugiados en El Paso; la epoca de la Ley Seca, la Depresion, y la persecucion religiosa en Mexico.

Interview No. 418, Angel Oaxaca

Combined Interviews

Datos biograficos; sus primeros trabajos en la ciudad de Chihuahua; su venida a El Paso; trabajos que tuvo en El Paso, incluyendo los que fueron en muebleria; la Depresion y la epoca de la Ley Seca; la palabra 'Chicano'.

Interview No. 419, James C. Marchant

Combined Interviews

Experiences as a Customs Patrol agent in the El Paso area; experiences as Customs Officer at Kennedy Airport in New York; days as Air Marshal; corruption in the Customs Service. Part of interview takes place while Marchant is on the job.

Interview No. 309, Dr. Judson F. Williams, Mrs. Judson F. Williams

Combined Interviews

Family backgrounds ; school and school activities; early employment; Sunset Heights during the 1940's; El Paso during World War II; Mr. Williams as Mayor of El Paso; respective civic involvements; changes in Sunset Heights during the 1950's; homes and occupants of Sunset Heights; impact of Sunset Heights on the development of El Paso; the future of Sunset Heights.

Interview No. 286, Judge George Rodriguez, Sr.

Combined Interviews

Mexican Americans and the legal profession in El Paso in the 1930's; cases he fought as a criminal lawyer involving Mexican Americans; impact of wars on the Mexican American community; views on the Chicano Movement.

Interview No. 497, Bernardo Martinez R.

Combined Interviews

Experiencias como indocumentado en Alaska, California y Kansas, incluyendo sus trabajos y huidas de la inmigracion.

Interview No. 401.2, Ray Dunwell

Combined Interviews

Terrorism along the border; transacting business across the border; labor relations; views on Mexican workers; impact of 1976 peso devaluation.

Interview No. 401.1, William Hankins

Combined Interviews

Terrorism along the border; transacting business across the border; other border problems; involvement of twin plant management in civic activities.

Interview No. 427, E W. Rheinheimer

Combined Interviews

El Paso Baby Sanitarium at Old Tin Mine on the east side of the Franklin Mountains in the 1920s; his medical practice in South El Paso; experiences training rum-runners during Prohibition; patients in Juarez; Stormsville; diseases prevalent in El Paso in the 1920s; delivering babies; veneral disease; changes in the medical profession. (Also included is a list of the El Paso County Medical Society, organized in 1898.)

Interview No. 400.2, Fred Plett

Combined Interviews

Comments on the plants' operations in Juárez; advantages; issues and problems.

Interview No. 400.1, Bill Mitchell

Combined Interviews

Discussion of issues and problems associated with the twin plant program in Juárez, Mexico.

Interview No. 285, Discussion Of The Alvarado School Case Decision

Combined Interviews

Recording of meeting involving community representatives from LULAC, UTEP and others, and attorneys Albert Armendariz and Peter Roos, in which they discussed whether or nor to appeal Judge Sessions' decision on the Alvarado School Desegregation Case in El Paso, Texas.

Interview No. 431, Bob Head

Combined Interviews

El Paso-Cd. Juarez relations.

Interview No. 423, Don Burgess

Combined Interviews

Growing up in Alpine, Texas; involvement with paracaidistas in Juarez; border incidents; work as a linguist among the Tarahumara Indians, 1964-1976; life among the Tarahumaras.

Interview No. 342.2, Antonio Lozano

Combined Interviews

Su niñez en San Pedro, Coahuila; experiencias como villista bajo de Eugenio Aguirre Benavides; su participación en los ataques de Torreón, San Pedro, Paredón, y Zacatecas; Villa y Felipe Angeles; las Influenza Española de 1918; la devaluación del peso.

Born in Zacatecas, grew up in San Pedro, Coahuila; children's games, youth sports; fought as a Villista under Eugenio Aguirre Benavides; description of attacks on Torreon, San Pedro, Paredon, and Zacatecas; incidents involving Villa and Felipe Angeles; 1918 Spanish Flu; peso devaluation; comments about his son's employment in the Unites States.

Tape in Spanish.

Interview No. 253, Juana B. Zuniga

Combined Interviews

La Revolucion Mexicana; emigracion a los Estados Unidos; la Depresion; experiencias en Salt Lake City.

Interview No. 430, Bill Morrow

Combined Interviews

Personal background; business activities; El Paso-Cd. Juarez relations.

Interview No. 280, Ruben B. Salcido

Combined Interviews

Biography; the Depression; World War II; discrimination.

Interview No. 252, Conrado Mendoza

Combined Interviews

Biografia; emigracion a los Estados Unidos y los problemas confrontados aqui; El Paso en un principio; experiencias de trabajo en California; la Depresion; I y II Guerras Mundiales; impresiones sobre los Estados Unidos; la palabra "Chicano".

Interview No. 275, Thomas Enriquez

Combined Interviews

Biographical data; educational and job experiences; the Chicano Movement, his thoughts about it and his involvement in it; thoughts on illegal aliens. RESTRICTION states, "Not for release to any government agency without prior approval."

Interview No. 288, Jose Lopez Portillo

Combined Interviews

Platica Inaugural.

Interview No. 282, George E. Barnhart

Combined Interviews

Biography; the Mexican Revolution; Prohibition; Jim Gilett and John Wesley Hadin; the Depression; World War II; Judge Roy Bean.

Interview Nos. 301.1 -- 301.6, Mrs. Moses D. Springer, Mr. Benjamin Fineberg, Mrs. Benjamin Fineberg, Mr. Perlmutter, Hymer Rosen, Joe Aaronson, Necha Silver

Combined Interviews

Development of Jewish community in El Paso, Holocaust, Israel, and other related topics.

Interview No. 262, Edmundo Padilla

Combined Interviews

Su vida de nino; la vida como agricultor; la primera alberca de Ciudad Juarez; la Revolucion Mexicana; la pelicula muda de la vida de Pancho Villa; breves comentarios sobre la Segunda Gerra Mundial, la Ley Seca de los Estados Unidos, y la epoca de los Braceros en los Estados Unidos.

Interview No. 270, Armando A. Sanchez

Combined Interviews

Biography; rumrunners and bootleg joints during Prohibition; incidents in his Army career during World War II; his job of teaching infantry tactics, weaponry and survival tactics to U.S. and foreign troops; discrimination in Texas; the word "Chicano"; future plans.

Interview No. 277, Father Alfred Galvan

Combined Interviews

Biography; religion, politics, and ethnic relations.

Interview No. 254, Severiano Torres Ortiz

Combined Interviews

Su vida en Jerez, Zacatecas, Mexico; experiencias en la Revolucion Mexicana y con los Cristeros; Primera y Segunda Guerra Mundial; su vida politica en Cd. Juarez; comentarios sobre la politica de Mexico.

Interview No. 251, Soledad Olivas

Combined Interviews

Biografia; vida en Sur El Paso; su envolvimiento en la Campana Pro la Preservacion del Barrio.