Oral History Interview with Pete Evans, March 7, 1984 Page: 1
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Pete EvansInterviewer: Dr. Ronald E. Marcello
Place of Interview: Duncanville, TexasDr. Marcello:
Mr. Evans:
Dr. Marcello:Date of Interview: March 7, 1984
This is Ron Marcello interviewing Pete Evans for the North
Texas State University Oral History Collection. The interview
is taking place on March 7, 1984, in Duncanville, Texas. I'm
interviewing Mr. Evans in order to get his reminiscences and
experiences while he was employed by the National Youth Adminis-
tration during the 1930's. The National Youth Administration
was one of the New Deal relief agencies that was established
during the Great Depression.
Pete, even though you gave me a biographical sketch in
our previous interviews that we had done on different subjects,
I need to have you go through that procedure again because the
person who reads this interview may not read the others. So
just very briefly give me a biographical sketch. In other
words, tell me when you were born, where you were born, and
so forth.
I was born on August 30, 1923, at a little rural community
called Hamby, Texas, which is about seven or eight miles
east of Abilene, Texas, in Taylor County.
Tell me a little bit about your family background, that is,
in terms of the number of people in the family and a little
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Marcello, Ronald E. & Evans, Peter, 1923-. Oral History Interview with Pete Evans, March 7, 1984, book, March 7, 1984; Denton, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc1857692/m1/3/?rotate=90: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting UNT Oral History Program.