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Interview No. 836, Eugenio Calzada Flores
Interview No. 836, Eugenio Calzada Flores
Combined Interviews
Part of the Chamizal Oral History Project; member of Electoral District Committee during election Teófilo Borunda; assignation of Cordoba Island; physicals characteristics of island; economic activities and housing of residents; stages of Chamizal Treaty, including signing and infrastructures, bridges, and canal; meeting of Mexican President Lyndon B. Johnson.
Interview No. 838, Pedro Nestor García
Interview No. 838, Pedro Nestor García
Combined Interviews
Part of Chamnizal Oral History Project; biographical data; relates story of the three generation fight for 29 hectares of land lost when Rio Grande changed course; comments about his book El Chamizal, Caso Inconcluso. (See also No. 70)
Interview No. 837, Joseph F. Friedkin
Interview No. 837, Joseph F. Friedkin
Combined Interviews
Part of Chamizal Oral History Project; biographical data; early career with IBWC Commissioner; history of Chamizal dispute; special congressional legislation authorizing payment yo property owners in Chamizal area; logistics of relocating families, businesses, railroads and utilities in land transfer,; relationship between commissioners on both sides of U.S.-Mexico border; relocating of international bridges; Four Points Program; commemorative ceremony to celebrate signing of Chamizal Treaty.
Interview No. 432, Ing. David Herrera J.
Interview No. 432, Ing. David Herrera J.
Combined Interviews
Datos biograficos; experiencias como el comisionado de CILA; incluyendo detalles de la construccion de presas a lo largo del Rio Grande y el Rio Colorado, la canalizacion del Rio Tijuana, el problema de la salinidad en la area de Mexicali, y el Chamizal.
Interview No. 552, Joseph F. Friedkin
Interview No. 552, Joseph F. Friedkin
Combined Interviews
Biographical Data; history of the IBWC; land and water disputes arbitrated by the commission.
Interview No. 185, Ray Daguerre
Interview No. 185, Ray Daguerre
Combined Interviews
Biography; differences between Sunset Heights, South El Paso, and Ciudad Juarez; Commissioner Lawson; Boundary Commission and Agrarian Claims Commission; border monumentation; Chamizal Dispute; irrigation network system.