Governor Mark White came in very tough economic times. As Governor, he regulated the utility industry and cut the price of electricity. He raised taxes twice, to save schools, building roads and to provide services to people. He also raised the...
Journalism--Texas--Houston ; KHOU-TV (Television station : Houston, Tex.) ; Houston (Tex.)--Press coverage ; Ambulance service--Press coverage ; Cooley, Denton A., 1920- --Press coverage ; Heart--Transplantation--Press coverage ; St. Luke's...
Tysen Ambulance, Date: "01/09/69": Footage of a man being interviewed about whether the city would take over the ambulance service or assist in paying for ambulance service fees. -- Cooley, Date: "01/09/69": Dr. Denton Cooley speaks of seventeen...
Journalism--Texas--Houston ; KHOU-TV (Television station : Houston, Tex.) ; Houston (Tex.)--Press coverage ; United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration--Press coverage ; Astronauts--Press coverage ; Lyndon B. Johnson Space...
NASA, Date: "06/05/75": Interview with a man; interview with four astronauts; Channel 11 reporter outside the Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center. -- Sorting It Out, Date: "06/05/75": Police officer speaking to a person hiding behind a door; two men...
Guaranty Savings Robbers- Pilgrim Robbers Caught, Date: "07/20/67": Footage of police investigating a robbery at a bank; footage of a young man at the police station hiding his face; footage of Pilgrim Cleaners and Launderers. -- Hi Jack #1, 1....
Journalism--Texas--Houston ; KHOU-TV (Television station : Houston, Tex.) ; Houston (Tex.)--Press coverage ; Huntsville (Tex.) ; Drug abuse and crime ; Missing persons--Texas--Houston--Press coverage ; After-school programs ; Crime scene searches ;...
Huntsville, Date: "08/30/74": A man is interviewed, and a group enters a building. -- Narc Bust, Date: "08/30/74": Footage of a man hiding his face and bags of drugs. -- Missing Man, Date: "08/30/74": A house and photographs are filmed. -- Vera...
Eckels, Robert, 1957- -- Interviews ; Houston Independent School District (Tex.). Board of Education--Interviews ; County commissioners--Texas--Houston--Interviews ;
Oral histories.
"These three volumes tell the story of a courtship that began between two people who had never seen each other, and lasted for fifty-six years. Most people know this couple as Rev. William and Mrs. Audrey Hoffman Lawson. Audrey wrote to William on...
Young Hazel Hainsworth, 1905-2009;
Teachers, Black -- Texas -- Houston -- Interviews;
Houston (Tex.) -- History -- Anecdotes;
School integration -- Texas -- Houston -- History;
Houston (Tex.) -- Race relations;
Oral histories
Interviewed by Elma Barrera, Hazel Young, a centenarian that lives in Houston, examines her life as a young girl growing up in the Fifth Ward, and as a teacher in the public school system.
Eckels, Robert;
County judges --Texas --Harris County --Interviews;
Harris County (Tex.) --Politics and government;
Hurricane Katrina, 2005;
Emergency management --Texas --Harris County;
Disaster relief --Gulf States;
Intergovernmental...
Robert Eckels describes his experiences as former Harris County judge. He discusses politics in Harris county and in the city of Houston, as well as his involvement in handling the influx of the evacuees from New Orleans during hurricane Katrina,...
