Oral History Commons^™

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.

Raymond, Hesper Oral History Interview: Class Projects, Roger Ackerman

Class Projects

No abstract provided.

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.)

Brown, Robert Oral History Interview: Class Projects, Bonnie Lee, Thelma Collado

Class Projects

No abstract provided.

Interview No. 400.2, Fred Plett

Combined Interviews

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

Macilwain, Marilyn Oral History Interview: Class Projects, Kelly Mclain, Cathy Steiner

Class Projects

No abstract provided.

Vander Burgh, John Oral History Interview: Class Projects, Terri Robinson, Randy Vandenberg

Class Projects

No abstract provided.

Van Der Ven, Charles Oral History Interview: Class Projects, Steve Timmerman, Jay Peters

Class Projects

No abstract provided.

Interview No. 400.1, Bill Mitchell

Combined Interviews

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

Brolin, Ed Oral History Interview: Class Projects, Brad Saline, Steve Cochrun

Class Projects

No abstract provided.

Ligtvoet, John Oral History Interview: Class Projects, Unknown Student

Class Projects

No abstract provided.

De Graaf, Clarence Oral History Interview: Class Projects, Judy Cook, Roger Ackerman

Class Projects

No abstract provided.

Veen, Klaas Oral History Interview: Class Projects, Paul Walchenbach, Bret Fisk

Class Projects

No abstract provided.

De Jonge, John Oral History Interview: Class Projects, Ann Helmus, Peter Kuiken

Class Projects

No abstract provided.

Oldemulders, Fred Oral History Interview: Class Projects, Brad Millen, Gary Foote

Class Projects

No abstract provided.

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.

Ua68/8/2 Kelly Thompson Oral History, J. Crawford Crowe

WKU Administration Documents

An interview on January 2, 1977 with WKU president Kelly Thompson conducted by Crawford Crowe.

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.

Legends Of Drakes Creek "Old Flutey", Kentucky Library Research Collections

Research Collections

No abstract provided.

Goldberg, Becky Oral History Interview: Class Projects, Chuck Riggs, David Mckinney

Class Projects

No abstract provided.

De Vries, Ben And Mildred Oral History Interview: Class Projects, Bill Dick

Class Projects

No abstract provided.

Vanden Bough, Mr And Mrs Oral History Interview: Class Projects, Dave Van Dyken, Randy Fitzpatrik

Class Projects

No abstract provided.

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.