Oral History Commons^™

Interview No. 1748, Gisela Avalos

Combined Interviews

Her name is Gisela Avalos and she was fighting in the strike in May 9th. She says that they were fighting for their rights that she knew they were violating them. She also mentions that she had a husband in that time and he accepted to leave her because she needed to become a new person. She says that at the beginning they wouldn’t so anything about the company violating their rights, but they got tired and they went to the union to protest for women rights, but many men won’t listen to them and that had to be change. …

Interview No. 304, Kenneth Flynn

Combined Interviews

Views on problems of the border; the work of Project Bravo; uniqueness of Ciudad Juárez / El Paso; non-Mexican American ethnic groups in El Paso.

Interview No. 287.3, Organization Of U. S. Border Cities (Ousbc)

Combined Interviews

Proceedings of meeting held in Las Cruces, New Mexico.

Interview No. 339, Ed Kerley

Combined Interviews

Talk on the Maquiladoras.

Interview No. 338, Gerald L. Coyle

Combined Interviews

"Work of the INS in the El Paso Area."

Interview No. 457, Adolfo Gonzalez D.

Combined Interviews

Relata detalles de un incidente en el cual afirma que fue detenido por unos oficiales de Inmigracion en un puente en El Paso.

Interview No. 425, Robert T. Hudgins

Combined Interviews

Biography; work experiences in business and subsequent position with IRS and Customs Service; interesting cases encountered while working for the government on the border, including fraud and smuggling.

Interview No. 509, The Cia's Secret Army

Combined Interviews

Audio portion of CBS-TV Special Report on CIA-sponsored Cuban exiles who have fought against Castro. Host: Bill Moyers.

Interview No. 337, Roger Brandemuehl

Combined Interviews

"The Illegal Alien Problem."

Interview No. 552, Joseph F. Friedkin

Combined Interviews

Biographical Data; history of the IBWC; land and water disputes arbitrated by the commission.

Interview No. 296, José R. Tinajero, Luis G. Sarellano

Combined Interviews

Raza Unida Party nationally, statewide, and locally.

Interview No. 647, Wiliam Hughes

Combined Interviews

Experiences with the Customs Service, 1960-1977;

observations on changes in the Service since 1960

Interview No. 734, Lewis Jones

Combined Interviews

Discussion of his work with the Customs Service at the bridges in the El Paso - Juarez area since 1945, especially export-import control and seizures of contraband.

Interview No. 329, J. Lawrence Mcconville

Combined Interviews

Dr. McConville gives an informal impressionistic analysis of life in the Borderlands.

Interview No. 297, Seminar: Immigration And Public Policy

Combined Interviews

Seminar to discuss immigration and its effects on the press, the law, employment and economy, education, and human services. Held in El Paso, Texas.

Interview No. 310, Mr. Al Ratner, Mrs. Al Ratner

Combined Interviews

Biography; early businesses in El Paso; families who lived on Hawthorne Street in Sunset Heights; Mrs. Ratner's background; early El Paso families; school experiences; General Escobar; refugee families who moved into the Sunset Heights area during the Mexican Revolution; Anglo/Mexican relations; the word "Chicano"; Golden Years and decline of Sunset Heights; El Paso during World War II and going to Juarez to purchase rationed items; gambling and prostitution; development of El Paso's Jewish community; Italian POW camp in El Paso at Washington Park; other comments on the history of El Paso.

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. 291, Frank Quartell

Combined Interviews

Biography; his beginnings in music; the Edgewater Beach Hotel and Mr. Severo G. Gonzales of the Central Cafe in Cd. Juarez; working in Galveston, Cd. Juarez, and El Paso; prominent businessmen in El Paso in the late 1920's and early 1930's; the first radio station in El Paso; people who used to frequent the Central Cafe.

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. 401.1, 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. 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. 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.