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[News Script: Cubans]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about 4 Cuban refugees in Fort Worth; Brothers Ignacio and Vicente Perez, Louis Canizares and Jose Gonzales were on their way to California to find jobs when they broke down in Fort Worth and liked it so much they decided to stay. The youths left Cuba to escape serving in Castro's militia, two of them escaping in a rented rowboat with 3 others and rowing and drifting the 100 miles to Miami.
Date: December 21, 1961
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Cuban]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the anti-Communist revolutionaries of Cuba; the interview with Fernando Robiana, a Cuban exile who lives with his family in Dallas, tells of being ready go to to a training camp to prepare to fight for a possible invasion of Cuba to defeat the Castro regime, and what exiles such as he lost. An invasion could have the support of the Organization of American States, and he awaits word.
Date: December 23, 1961
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

Oral History Interview with Carl Clay, May 7, 2002

Description: Interview with Carl Clay, a veteran of the U.S. Navy during the Persian Gulf War, who also served in the civil wars in Lebanon, Kosovo, and Somalia. Clay describes his time working in aviation on the flight deck of ships and the many countries he visited while in the service, such as Brazil, Spain, and Cuba.
Date: April 15, 2003
Creator: DeVore, Danielle & Clay, Carl
Partner: Lee College

Spanish Explorers in the Southern United States, 1528-1543

Description: Book containing three translated narratives of early Spanish explorers in what would become the Southern United States. This includes the paths taken by the explorers, the people they encountered, and hardships they endured.
Date: 2017
Creator: Núñez Cabeza de Vaca, Alvar, 16th cent. & Castañeda de Nájera, Pedro de, 16th cent.
Partner: Texas State Historical Association

Current Study 10, Chapter 2. The Cuban Crisis

Description: This booklet is the second chapter of a training course developed for Air Force Reserve personnel about the challenges posed by the Cold War. This chapter focuses on the militarization of Cuba under the Castro regime and includes background information, analysis, review questions, and a list of readings for further study.
Date: March 1963
Creator: United States. Air Force. Continental Air Command.
Partner: National WASP WWII Museum

Current Study 10, Chapter 1. Neutralism

Description: This booklet is the first chapter of a training course developed for Air Force Reserve personnel about the challenges posed by the Cold War. This chapter focuses on the impact of neutralism on world affairs and includes background information, analysis, review questions, and a list of readings for further study.
Date: September 1963
Creator: Air University (U.S.)
Partner: National WASP WWII Museum

Current Study 11, Chapter 5. Communist Activities in Latin America

Description: This booklet is the fifth chapter of a training course developed for Air Force Reserve personnel about the Cold War's impact on world affairs. This chapter "is intended to show how the Communists have attempted to subvert the Latin American nations as a step toward the avowed Communist goal of world domination, and to show how the United States and other American Republics are meeting the perilous Communist threat" (p. 1). This booklet includes background information, analysis, review questions… more
Date: April 1964
Creator: Air University (U.S.)
Partner: National WASP WWII Museum

Oral History Interview with Aaron C. Kulow

Description: The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with Aaron C. Kulow. Kulow grew up in Michigan and enlisted in the Navy in 1942. After training, he joined the ship USS Pollux AKS-4 at Norfolk, Virginia. Initially the ship runs trips down to the Carribbean and Brazil but in 1943 is fitted with radar and sent to the Pacific Theater. In the Pacific, the general stores issue ship visited Australia, New Guinea, the Admiralty Islands, and the New Hebrides Islands. He then returned t… more
Date: unknown
Creator: Kulow, Aaron C.
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation
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