History
Patsy Furr – Food for Stangers
Patsy Furr talks about how she used to feed a man that wandered around her neighborhood. CLICK HERE to watch the full Oral History
Joy McAllister – Breakfast with President Kennedy
Joy McAllister’s husband attended a breakfast meeting with President Kennedy the morning before he was assassinated. CLICK HERE to watch the full Oral History
Emma Jean Layl – Growing Up During the Great Depression
Emma Jean Layl talks about what it was like growing up during the Great Depression. CLICK HERE to watch the full Oral History
June Sachs – President Roosevelt
June Sachs’ father welcomed President Roosevelt to their hometown. CLICK HERE to watch the full Oral History
Ty Bronchetti – Nixon Resignation
Ty Bronchetti remembers the day President Nixon resigned. CLICK HERE to watch the full Oral History
June Sachs – JFK Motorcade
June Sachs watched President Kennedy’s motorcade travel from the airport to downtown Dallas. CLICK HERE to watch the full Oral History
Wilson Canafax – First soldier in Buchenwald
Reverend Wilson Canafax was a chaplain with the US Army at the end of the war in Germany, and was the first US soldier to enter the Buchenwald Concentration Camp. CLICK HERE to watch the full Oral History.
Irwin Grossman – After JFK’s Assassination
Irwin Grossman received the cold shoulder when he said he was from Dallas after the assassination of JFK. CLICK HERE to watch the full Oral History
Glenn Ison – Witnessing a Hydrogen Bomb Explosion
Glenn Ison witnessed a 6.9 megaton hydrogen Bomb explosion from a distance of 25 miles and an altitude of 20,000 feet. CLICK HERE to watch the full Oral History
Michael Gundy – Bush Inauguration
Michael Gundy went to President George W. Bush’s Inauguration and visited the White House 5 other times. CLICK HERE to watch the full Oral History
Donald Halsey – Nixon’s Plane
Donald Halsey designed the interior of President Nixon’s airplane, in Air Force 1. CLICK HERE to watch the full Oral History
Raymond Lambert – JFK and Dallas
Raymond Lambert talks about President Kennedy’s assassination and the effect it had on Dallas. CLICK HERE to watch the full Oral History
George Field – Car Air Conditioning
George Field remembers his first car in Uvalde, TX that had an aftermarket air conditioner. He also talks about his unsuccessful attempts at providing air conditioning in his family’s car. CLICK HERE to watch the full Oral History
Bill Ragan – Glider
CLICK HERE to see the full Oral History. Bill’s father built a working glider himself shortly after Wilbur and Orville!
Joe Applewhite – Sharecropping
Joe Applewhite relates the story of his great grandfather during and after the Civil War, including the start of sharecropping. CLICK HERE to watch the full Oral History
Bob Warren – Farming for Food
Bob Warren talks about how his family got their food during the Great Depression. CLICK HERE to watch the full Oral History
Marna Brown – Secret Service Agent Clint Hill
Marna Brown’s brother was friends with the Secret Service Agent, Clint Hill, who jumped onto the back of President Kennedy’s limousine when he was shot. CLICK HERE to watch the full Oral History
Tom Watkins – Greatest Invention of His Time
Tom Watkins considers the self starter in an automobile to be the most remarkable invention of his lifetime. CLICK HERE to watch the full Oral History
Jack Repp – Nazi Hunter
Jack Repp survived unbelievable conditions for 6 years in Nazi Concentration Camps and then went to work for the US Secret Service as a Nazi Hunter. CLICK HERE to watch the full Oral History
Margaret Hopkovitz – Auschwitz Survivor and Death March
Margaret Hopkovitz was part of the prisoner group that left Auschwitz in 1941 and went on a Death March en-route to other concentration camps. CLICK HERE to watch the full Oral History
Dottie Winchester – Married to an Auschwitz Liberator
Dottie Winchester’s husband, Rush, was a Liberator of the Auschwitz Concentration Camp and her relatives lives in East Germany, behind the Iron Curtain during the Cold War. CLICK HERE to watch the full Oral History
Max Edward Tonkon – Jackie Kennedy’s Hat
Max Tonkon kept a hat just like Jackie Kennedy’s on his credenza. CLICK HERE to watch the full Oral History
Renate Kahn – Eyewitness to Kristallnacht
Renate Kahn grew up in Germany and experienced antisemitism and was an eyewitness to Kristallnacht, the Night of Broken Glass when Jewish owned business were ransacked. CLICK HERE to watch the full Oral History
Orville Rogers – On 24/7 Call to Drop an Atomic Bomb in Moscow
As a Strategic Command pilot Orville’s assignment was to drop a nuclear bomb on Moscow if war broke out. CLICK HERE to watch the full Oral History
Charlene Mallory Turner – Hangings in the 1930’s
Charlene describes what happened when she was forced to view hanging bodies in her town. Click HERE to watch Charlene’s Featured Short about what life was like when your mother owned a one woman school house in the 1930’s. Click HERE to watch Cherlene’s full Oral History