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
Allan Cantor – Bayonet
Allan Cantor speaks about his experience with military on the Kent State campus including a Bayonet being shoved in his throat and a group of M-16s being pointed at him. CLICK HERE to see 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 of Oxman, Mississippi. 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
Tony Berry – Overcoming Segregation
Tony Berry talks about growing up with everything being segregated, from movie theaters and water fountains to hospitals and cemeteries. He remembers having to order his food with his mom and leave the store since they were not allowed to sit in the many empty seats. Growing up segregated gave him an inferiority complex and…
Muriel Stitsky Romick – Child Born on 11/22/63
Muriel Romick talks about 11/22/63, the day of President Kennedy’s assassination, and how her daughter was born on that same day. She was still recovering in the hospital when Jack Ruby shot Lee Harvey Oswald. CLICK HERE to watch the full Oral History
Joy McAllister – Breakfast with President Kennedy
Joy McAllister’s husband and some other Lockheed agents attended a breakfast meeting with President Kennedy the morning before he was assassinated. CLICK HERE to watch the full Oral History
George Alexander – Atomic Weapon Tests
George Alexander talks about how he felt during atomic weapon tests. CLICK HERE to watch the full Oral History
Herb Harter – The Plume of an Atomic Bomb
Herb Harter was the co-pilot on the World War II B-24, Jeter Bug. He also witnessed the plume from the atomic bomb that was dropped on Nagasaki. CLICK HERE to watch the full Oral History
Merle Hacker – Family War History
Merle Hacker’s mother’s father was in the Russia-China War, her grandmother, her aunt, and uncle suffered in the Holocaust. Her father and his brothers later built a chain of supermarkets. CLICK HERE to watch the full Oral History
Bob Warren – Childhood Presidents
Bob Warren talks being born during Warren Harding’s presidency and President Hoover coming into office when Republicans were still seen in a negative light. CLICK HERE to watch the full Oral History
Bob Conger – Great Inventions Throughout Life
Bob Conger talks about his first indoor toilet, running water, his first TV in college, and more. CLICK HERE to watch the full Oral History
Marylyn Andrews – First TV
Marylyn Andrews recalls some of the technological advancements of her time including her first television and a capacitor. CLICK HERE to watch the full Oral History
Dorothy Willingham – Growing Up During the Great Depression
Dorothy Willingham talks about what it was like growing up during the Great Depression. CLICK HERE to watch the full Oral History
Steve Cotton – President Reagan
Steve Cotton was working on Capitol Hill the day President Reagan was shot. CLICK HERE to watch the full Oral History
Billie Woodard – Asking President Johnson for Help
Billie Woodard and her husband asked Lyndon B. Johnson for help buying a house. CLICK HERE to watch the full Oral History
Bill Norred – Family’s Car Showroom
Bill Norred’s family owned a car dealership that only had one car on the showroom floor. CLICK HERE to watch the full Oral History
Aron Vigushin – Lee Harvey Oswald
Aron Vigushin knew Lee Harvey Oswald in Russia. 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 and being shot if you didn’t keep up while walking. CLICK HERE to watch the full Oral History
June Sachs – President Roosevelt
June Sachs’ father welcomed President Roosevelt to their hometown of Wichita Falls. CLICK HERE to watch the full Oral History
Dr. Burt Einspruch – Medical Advancements
Dr. Burt Einspruch talks about tranquilizers and hallucinogens and safer drugs eliminated psychotherapy, insulin therapy and electroshock therapy. CLICK HERE to watch the full Oral History
Kimberly Archie – Differences in Perspectives
Kimberly Archie talks about some of the struggles her father faced while serving in the military including racial segregation among the troops. CLICK HERE to see the full Oral History
Joe Applewhite – Sharecropping
Joe Applewhite discusses his grand father whom took part in the start of Sharecropping after the Civil War. Joe also talks about his great grandfather who was a Captain in the Civil War until he was petitioned out. CLICK HERE to watch the full Oral History
Sam Kogutt – Camp Liberator
Sam Kogutt was a Liberator at Siegen and Flossenburg Concentration Camps. CLICK HERE to watch the full Oral History
Orville Rogers – On 24/7 Call To Drop An Atomic Bomb On Moscow
As a Strategic Command pilot Orville’s assignment was to drop nuclear bomb on Moscow if war broke out. CLICK HERE to watch the full Oral History
Colonel Bob Bullock – Next Door Neighbor Nixon
Colonel Bob Bullock and his family lived next door to the Congressman Richard Nixon, who later became President. CLICK HERE to watch the full Oral History