Oral History Interview with C. L. Pryor, December 5, 1987 Page: 90
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Jones: Do you think they would have executed him?
Pryor: No, I don't think they would have done that. In the
camp immediately adjacent to the Bridge over the
River Kwai, they had an antiaircraft battery set up,
around this bridge for protection. They came over
and they bombed this bridge, and they bombed this AA
battery, and a couple of stray bombs landed in camp
there and killed some of them. But in this camp,
they had a newspaper, they had a radio, and they put
out information. The Japanese knew they were getting
good information, good news. Well, by "good" I mean
reliable. And the only way they could know was to
have access to a radio. They'd come and search at
inopportune times, and they never found it. They had
built this radio in a tin can. This can was
described to me as being about six inches square and
about eight inches in depth. They had a little post
exchange there in camp, and they Could buy... if you
had money, you could buy peanuts--they would be
shelled peanuts--and you could buy an egg, mango,
tobacco, papayas, such things as that. This radio
was in the bottom of that can, and they had peanuts
on top of it. The Japanese had actually been in
there, they said, looking for that radio. They'd90
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Jones, Waller F. & Pryor, Charley L. Oral History Interview with C. L. Pryor, December 5, 1987, book, December 5, 1987; Denton, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc1584976/m1/92/?q=%221920-02%22: accessed August 15, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting UNT Oral History Program.