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Center for Public History, University of Houston; University of Houston Libraries, University of Houston
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This is an oral history interview with Niels Aalund conducted as part of the Houston History Project. Niels Aalund is a native Houstonian. He graduated from the University of Houston and worked in ...
Center for Public History, University of Houston; University of Houston Libraries, University of Houston
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This is an oral history interview with Wagih Abu-Rish conducted as part of the Houston History Project. Wagih Abu-Rish was born in Al-Eizariyah, or Bethany, Palestine in 1942. He left with his sib...
Center for Public History, University of Houston; University of Houston Libraries, University of Houston
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This is an oral history interview with Khalil Abusharekh conducted as part of the Houston History Project. Born in a refugee camp, Khalil Abusharekh spent over twenty years living in Gaza City. In ...
Center for Public History, University of Houston; University of Houston Libraries, University of Houston
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Nancy Beck Young interviews former Democratic Senator Don Adams about Texas politics during his tenures in the state House and the Senate. He begins his reflections by recalling the Constitutional ...
Center for Public History, University of Houston; University of Houston Libraries, University of Houston
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This is an oral history interview with David Adickes conducted as part of the Houston History Project. David Adickes is a Houston artist who was born in Huntsville, Texas on January 19, 1927. In Wo...
Center for Public History, University of Houston; University of Houston Libraries, University of Houston
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This is an oral history interview with Ralph Ainger conducted as part of the Houston History Project. Mr. Ralph Ainger grew up on Long Island, NY. A marine biologist by training, he was hired in 1...
Center for Public History, University of Houston; University of Houston Libraries, University of Houston
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This interview includes several exchanges in Urdu/Hindi since Mrs. Ajgaonkar’s first language is Marathi. All such passages have been translated into English. The Ajgaonkars are from Mumbai, India....
Center for Public History, University of Houston; University of Houston Libraries, University of Houston
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This is an oral history interview with Vernon Albert conducted as part of the Houston History Project. Mr. Vernon Albert was born in Pennsylvania and grew up an "Army brat." He studied business at ...
Center for Public History, University of Houston; University of Houston Libraries, University of Houston
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HFD EMS Assistant Chief David Almaguer discusses how he became a paramedic, the impact of Life Flight on Houston medicine, his memories of Red Duke, and the role Houston EMS has played in its 45-ye...
Center for Public History, University of Houston; University of Houston Libraries, University of Houston
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This is an oral history interview with Pradeep Anand conducted as part of the Houston History Project. Pradeep Anand came to Houston from Bombay in 1978. Born in 1950, his grandparents and ancestor...
Center for Public History, University of Houston; University of Houston Libraries, University of Houston
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This is an oral history interview with Robert L. Anderson conducted as part of the Houston History Project. Judge Anderson graduated from Yates High School in 1958. Coming from one of Texas' early ...
Center for Public History, University of Houston; University of Houston Libraries, University of Houston
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This is an oral history interview with Richard Andrews and Beverly Gor conducted as part of the Houston History Project. Dr. Richard Andrews spoke about his background and experience with public he...
Center for Public History, University of Houston; University of Houston Libraries, University of Houston
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This is an oral history interview with Nedra Andrus conducted as part of the Houston History Project. Nedra Andrus is the wife of Lafayette realtor Dwight Andrus. She was born in Merryville, but li...
Center for Public History, University of Houston; University of Houston Libraries, University of Houston
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This is an oral history interview with Bruce S. Applebaum conducted as part of the Houston History Project. Bruce Applebaum retired from Texaco following its merger with Chevron. He had been vice ...
Center for Public History, University of Houston; University of Houston Libraries, University of Houston
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This is an oral history interview with Dario Arellano conducted as part of the Houston History Project. Dario Arellano was born in Pasadena, TX and raised in Houston. He is a veteran of the Korean...
Center for Public History, University of Houston; University of Houston Libraries, University of Houston
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This is an oral history interview with Ernie Attwell conducted as part of the Houston History Project. During my (Dorothee Sauter) visit Mr. Attwell started to talk easily and introduced me to some...
Center for Public History, University of Houston; University of Houston Libraries, University of Houston
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This is an oral history interview with Leonard Aucoin conducted as part of the Houston History Project. Leonard Aucoin was born in Little Bayou Long, Louisiana in 1927 as the son of a fisherman / s...
Center for Public History, University of Houston; University of Houston Libraries, University of Houston
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This is an oral history interview with A. D. Azios conducted as part of the Houston History Project. Judge Azios is a native of Laredo, Texas. This interview traces his life from Laredo, to the Uni...
Center for Public History, University of Houston; University of Houston Libraries, University of Houston
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This is an oral history interview with Jim Baker conducted as part of the Houston History Project. Jim Baker is a retired Houston port captain for Lykes Brothers. A native of West Virginia, Baker i...
Center for Public History, University of Houston; University of Houston Libraries, University of Houston
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This is an oral history interview with Gene Bankston conducted as part of the Houston History Project. Gene Bankston grew up in Southeast Oklahoma. After serving in World War II as a B-17 gunner he...
Center for Public History, University of Houston; University of Houston Libraries, University of Houston
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This is an oral history interview with Virinder Bansal conducted as part of the Houston History Project. Hailing from Punjab, Virinder Bansal came to New York in 1970. An engineer by training, Mr. ...
Center for Public History, University of Houston; University of Houston Libraries, University of Houston
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This is an oral history interview with Michelle Barnes conducted as part of the Houston History Project. Michelle Anita Swain Barnes discusses in this interview her activism while a student at the ...
Center for Public History, University of Houston; University of Houston Libraries, University of Houston
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Benton Baugh was born and raised in Houston, where he decided he wanted to be an engineer. After graduating from the University of Houston, Baugh nearly went to work for NASA in 1965, but delays in...
Center for Public History, University of Houston; University of Houston Libraries, University of Houston
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This interview with Deborah Bell, a longtime feminist and GLBT activist, highlights these two movements in Texas as part of a broader Civil Rights movement. She recounts the context in which she gr...
Center for Public History, University of Houston; University of Houston Libraries, University of Houston
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This is an oral history interview with Dailey Berard conducted as part of the Houston History Project. Berard has been involved in the oil and gas industry for 50 years, working for and owning seve...
Center for Public History, University of Houston; University of Houston Libraries, University of Houston
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This is an oral history interview with Larry Berges conducted as part of the Houston History Project. Larry Berges is a partner of Regional Fabricators at the Port of Iberia. His father was involve...
Center for Public History, University of Houston; University of Houston Libraries, University of Houston
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This is an oral history interview with Edgar A. Bering conducted as part of the Houston History Project. University of Houston, Main Campus physics and electrical and computer engineering profess...
Center for Public History, University of Houston; University of Houston Libraries, University of Houston
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This is an oral history interview with Paul Berlin conducted as part of the Houston History Project. Radio personality Paul Berlin discusses his broadcasting career from his high school days in Mem...
Center for Public History, University of Houston; University of Houston Libraries, University of Houston
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This is an oral history interview with Allen Bettis conducted as part of the Houston History Project. Allen Bettis is an archaeologist working for the Texas Department of Transportation. Whenever m...
Center for Public History, University of Houston; University of Houston Libraries, University of Houston
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This is an oral history interview with Vijay Bhuchar conducted as part of the Houston History Project. Vijay Bhuchar moved to Houston from New Orleans and Delhi in 1975. She enjoyed a multi-sites c...
Center for Public History, University of Houston; University of Houston Libraries, University of Houston
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This is an oral history interview with James Bibe conducted as part of the Houston History Project. Mr. James Bibe graduated from University of Tennessee with a degree in Geology in 1950, and immed...
Center for Public History, University of Houston; University of Houston Libraries, University of Houston
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This is an oral history interview with Yolanda Navarro Black conducted as part of the Houston History Project. Since the 1960s Yolanda Navarro Black has been a long time social and political activi...
Center for Public History, University of Houston; University of Houston Libraries, University of Houston
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This is an oral history interview with Charlie Blackburn conducted as part of the Houston History Project. Mr. Charlie Blackburn had a long career with Shell beginning in 1952 after he graduated fr...
Center for Public History, University of Houston; University of Houston Libraries, University of Houston
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This is an oral history interview with John Bookout conducted as part of the Houston History Project. John Bookout had a tremendously successful career with Shell Oil Company. After serving in Wor...
Center for Public History, University of Houston; University of Houston Libraries, University of Houston
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This is an oral history interview with Bob Bougeois conducted as part of the Houston History Project. Bob Bougeois was born in Raceland, LA in 1934, he had four brothers. He studied physical educat...
Center for Public History, University of Houston; University of Houston Libraries, University of Houston
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This is an oral history interview with Jim Bradshaw conducted as part of the Houston History Project. Jim Bradshaw is originally from Lake Charles, LA and moved to Lafayette in 1964. His father wor...
Center for Public History, University of Houston; University of Houston Libraries, University of Houston
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This is an oral history interview with Lee Brasted conducted as part of the Houston History Project. Mr. Lee Brasted went got his B.S. in Civil Engineering from Bucknell University in 1964. He joi...
Center for Public History, University of Houston; University of Houston Libraries, University of Houston
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This is an oral history interview with Pamela Braziel Allen and Ruby Lee Braziel conducted as part of the Houston History Project. Pamela Braziel Allen, daughter of Overseer Ruby Lee Braziel, talks...
Center for Public History, University of Houston; University of Houston Libraries, University of Houston
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This is an oral history interview with Royce Breaux and Roy Breaux, Jr. conducted as part of the Houston History Project. Royce Breaux is the chairman of Breauxs Baycraft, Inc. and Roy Breaux Jr. i...
Center for Public History, University of Houston; University of Houston Libraries, University of Houston
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This is an oral history interview with Vance Breaux conducted as part of the Houston History Project. Vance Breaux is president and part-owner of Breaux Brother's Enterprise. He and his brother, Wa...
Center for Public History, University of Houston; University of Houston Libraries, University of Houston
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This is an oral history interview with Bill Broman conducted as part of the Houston History Project. Mr. Bill Broman got his B.S. and M.S. from Michigan Technological University. He joined Shell D...
Center for Public History, University of Houston; University of Houston Libraries, University of Houston
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This is an oral history interview with Hazel Jewel Brown conducted as part of the Houston History Project. In this interview Brown discusses what it was like growing up in the Third Ward, going to ...
Center for Public History, University of Houston; University of Houston Libraries, University of Houston
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Robert J. Brown found his first job in the petroleum industry in 1950, working as the tail chainman on a Tennessee Gas pipeline survey crew. His tenure with Tenneco took him between sites in New En...
Center for Public History, University of Houston; University of Houston Libraries, University of Houston
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Curtis Burton grew up in both Mississippi and India, and graduated from the University of Texas in 1979 with a degree in engineering. Burton took on with Otis Engineering, and was able to work on t...
Center for Public History, University of Houston; University of Houston Libraries, University of Houston
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This is an oral history interview with Carlos Calbillo conducted as part of the Houston History Project. Carlos Calbillo was part of the radical movement during the Civil Rights Movement in the 196...
Center for Public History, University of Houston; University of Houston Libraries, University of Houston
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Dr. Luis R. Cano reflects on his career as a teacher and an activist in Houston. Dr. Cano started a school funded by grants. With only $35,000 he employed two others, and taught drop outs from HISD...
Center for Public History, University of Houston; University of Houston Libraries, University of Houston
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This is an oral history interview with Dorothy Caram conducted as part of the Houston History Project. Dr. Dorothy Caram is an educator and community activist in the Mexican American community of H...
Center for Public History, University of Houston; University of Houston Libraries, University of Houston
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This is an oral history interview with Nellie M. Caraway conducted as part of the Houston History Project. Ms. Nellie Caraway was born in Beaumont, Texas but has been a long-time resident of Housto...
Center for Public History, University of Houston; University of Houston Libraries, University of Houston
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This interview with Ray Douglas Carrington, III, a photography instructor at Jack Yates High School, both recalls the struggle for Civil Rights in Houston during the 1960s and calls for continued a...
Center for Public History, University of Houston; University of Houston Libraries, University of Houston
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This is an oral history interview with Natalie Carrol conducted as part of the Houston History Project. Interviewers: Kathleen Brosnan and Ramona Hopkins.
Center for Public History, University of Houston; University of Houston Libraries, University of Houston
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John Carter’s father worked for a quarter of a century as a production manager for Burma Oil, and his son followed him into the oil business. Living in Glasgow, Scotland, Carter studied mechanical ...
Center for Public History, University of Houston; University of Houston Libraries, University of Houston
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This is an oral history interview with Reverend Lowell Case conducted as part of the Houston History Project. Reverend Lowell Case is one of thirteen siblings born in a historically agricultural ar...
Center for Public History, University of Houston; University of Houston Libraries, University of Houston
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This is an oral history interview with J.C. Chargois conducted as part of the Houston History Project. Mr. J. C. Chargois was born in 1924 in Lafayette and was the third child of Kezz and Louise Ch...
Center for Public History, University of Houston; University of Houston Libraries, University of Houston
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Depp Cheramie went to work for Texaco in his native Louisiana in 1971, when he was 19 years old. After a decade with the firm, Cheramie moved on to Shell Oil in 1982, working as a senior operator o...
Center for Public History, University of Houston; University of Houston Libraries, University of Houston
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This is an oral history interview with Keli Chevalier conducted as part of the Houston History Project. Major Keli Chevalier, the founder of the nonprofit Trauma to Triumph, discusses how she came ...
Center for Public History, University of Houston; University of Houston Libraries, University of Houston
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Vietnam War immigrant Suzanne Chew briefly describes her passage from Vietnam to the United States, the traditions she has kept from her homeland, and America’s influence on her and her family. She...
Center for Public History, University of Houston; University of Houston Libraries, University of Houston
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Rob Christ attended Louisiana Tech University and emerged with dual degrees in aviation and accounting. After a stint as a CPA, Christ joined up with the work of his father, C.J. Christ, in the sub...
Center for Public History, University of Houston; University of Houston Libraries, University of Houston
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This is an oral history interview with Robey Clark conducted as part of the Houston History Project. Robey Clark went to LSU in 1939 and joined the Navy before graduation. However, they still gave ...
Center for Public History, University of Houston; University of Houston Libraries, University of Houston
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This is an oral history interview with Susan Clayton Garwood conducted as part of the Houston History Project. Susan Clayton Garwood, the great-granddaughter of Houston cotton magnate, William Lock...
Center for Public History, University of Houston; University of Houston Libraries, University of Houston
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This is an oral history interview with John Clemmons conducted as part of the Houston History Project. Interviewers: Kathleen A. Brosnan and Timothy O'Brien.
Center for Public History, University of Houston; University of Houston Libraries, University of Houston
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Marshall Cloyd studied engineering at both Berkeley and Southern Methodist University before finishing a master’s at Stanford and Harvard Business School. In 1959, Cloyd began working in Mississipp...
Center for Public History, University of Houston; University of Houston Libraries, University of Houston
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This is an oral history interview with Ed Collins conducted as part of the Houston History Project. One of three boys, Ed Collins was born in 1924 in Laurel, Mississippi. His father owned a plumbin...
Center for Public History, University of Houston; University of Houston Libraries, University of Houston
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This is an oral history interview with Mike Collins conducted as part of the Houston History Project. Mike Collins is one of the very old hands at archaeology here in Texas. His specialty is lithic...
Center for Public History, University of Houston; University of Houston Libraries, University of Houston
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This is an oral history interview with Bruce Collipp conducted as part of the Houston History Project. Bruce Collipp graduated from MIT in 1953 with a masters degree. He started at Shell in 1954....