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Oral History Interview with Albert Jeffers, December 28, 2011

Description: The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with Albert Jeffers. Jeffers joined the Navy in 1943 and received basic training in Illinois. He received diesel engine maintenance and repair training at submarine school in Connecticut. Upon completion, he was assigned to the engine room aboard the USS Threadfin (SS-410) as a fireman, first class. He participated in the tracking operation that led to the sinking of the Japanese battleship Yamato. He was transferred to the USS M… more
Date: December 28, 2011
Creator: Jeffers, Albert
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation

[News Script: Missiles]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story of Minuteman ICBM 's house which have never been test-fired from their launch sites although some have been transported to Vandenberg Air Force Base in California.
Date: December 28, 1973, 10:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Amtrak Derailment]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story of six cars of a 17-car Amtrak train which was loaded with 300-400 passengers derailed at Anderson, California on a trip from Seattle to Oakland, California.
Date: December 28, 1973, 12:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Letter from Harris Leon Kempner, Jr. to Harvard College Library, December 28, 1962]

Description: Letter from Harris Leon Kempner, Jr. to Harvard College Library enclosing a copy of The Cultural Revolution of the Seventeenth Century by S. L. Bethell, regarding which they've wrote him many times. He mentions that all those letters were addressed to his father and had to be forwarded to him in California. And he didn't have the book with him in California and he found it when he went home for Christmas holidays.
Date: December 28, 1962
Creator: Kempner, Harris Leon, Jr.
Partner: Rosenberg Library
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