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Can you tell me your name?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508#t=16.59,21.6"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508/transcript/64967/annotation/6","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"My name?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508#t=21.6,22.48"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508/transcript/64967/annotation/7","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Yes.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508#t=22.48,22.9"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508/transcript/64967/annotation/8","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Jesse, first name. Middle initial G.  And the last name is R-E-Y-E-S, Reyes.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508#t=22.9,30.33"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508/transcript/64967/annotation/9","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Thank you. And can you tell  me how old you are?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508#t=30.33,33.42"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508/transcript/64967/annotation/10","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I'm 92 years old.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508#t=33.42,35.37"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508/transcript/64967/annotation/11","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"What is your date of birth?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508#t=35.37,38.43"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508/transcript/64967/annotation/12","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"January the 12th, 1923.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508#t=38.43,41.73"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508/transcript/64967/annotation/13","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"And where were you born?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508#t=41.73,43.71"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508/transcript/64967/annotation/14","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I was born here in Houston, Texas.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508#t=43.71,46.74"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508/transcript/64967/annotation/15","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"What are the names of your parents?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508#t=46.74,50.31"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508/transcript/64967/annotation/16","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"My parents are, first my daddy's name was  [Anastacio] Reyes and my mother's name was","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508#t=50.31,57.02"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508/transcript/64967/annotation/17","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Maria Reyes. Maria Gonzales Reyes.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508#t=57.02,62.36"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508/transcript/64967/annotation/18","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"And where are your parents from?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508#t=62.36,64.64"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508/transcript/64967/annotation/19","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"My daddy was from [San Luis Potosi], the  state of [San Luis Potosi].","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508#t=64.64,70.05"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508/transcript/64967/annotation/20","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"A little town named [...] and  my mother came from- from","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508#t=70.05,77.97"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508/transcript/64967/annotation/21","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"[Pajacuarán, Michoacan], which is  close to the Jalisco border between.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508#t=77.97,84.71"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508/transcript/64967/annotation/22","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Michoacan state and Jalisco,  [close to the Lake Chapala].","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508#t=84.71,90.4"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508/transcript/64967/annotation/23","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"And how did your parents end up in Houston?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508#t=90.4,94.18"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508/transcript/64967/annotation/24","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Well, that- that- that's a good question.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508#t=94.18,97.93"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508/transcript/64967/annotation/25","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"My daddy came here to escape social injustices that prevailed in Mexico when he","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508#t=97.93,105.22"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508/transcript/64967/annotation/26","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"was growing up. 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How many children did your parents have total?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508#t=396.27,401.67"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508/transcript/64967/annotation/78","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"My daddy had, we had, uh, let's see.  My daddy's family consisted of Baba and Papa,","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508#t=401.67,406.8"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508/transcript/64967/annotation/79","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"which were, and daddy's about. It was three,  two, three boys and two girls.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508#t=406.8,414.66"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508/transcript/64967/annotation/80","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I was the second oldest in the family.  My sister, Isabel, born in 1921.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508#t=414.66,420.93"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508/transcript/64967/annotation/81","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I was born in 1923.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508#t=420.93,422.79"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508/transcript/64967/annotation/82","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Rudy, my brother- brother- brother,  was born 1925. 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Seeing that the- the price of gasoline was about seven cents a gallon and","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508#t=604.29,611.22"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508/transcript/64967/annotation/116","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"a brand new car was under a thousand dollars and rent for a house was about twelve,","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508#t=611.22,617.0"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508/transcript/64967/annotation/117","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"thirteen dollars a month. In fact, we moved to a better part of town, which is on 1505","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508#t=617.0,623.56"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508/transcript/64967/annotation/118","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Terry Street across from the tracks.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508#t=623.56,627.63"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508/transcript/64967/annotation/119","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"We made the jump to a better neighborhood because we were making good money. 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We couldn't collect enough for gasoline,","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508#t=641.36,646.13"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508/transcript/64967/annotation/122","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"so we were eventually evicted from the house.  We'd lived there at at 1505 Terry,","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508#t=646.13,652.58"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508/transcript/64967/annotation/123","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"which it still exists. And frequently,  I go by and reminisce about when I","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508#t=652.58,658.52"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508/transcript/64967/annotation/124","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"was a little kid, you know, playing out there.  And so this was in 1929, 1930.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508#t=658.52,666.74"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508/transcript/64967/annotation/125","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"And those were the conditions that economically prevailed at the time.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508#t=666.74,672.98"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508/transcript/64967/annotation/126","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"You know, when the change over from the, before the depression, when Al Capone was","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508#t=672.98,678.95"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508/transcript/64967/annotation/127","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"running amok over there in Chicago, I saw all of that, you know, I experienced all of that.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508#t=678.95,683.78"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508/transcript/64967/annotation/128","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"The Roaring Twenty area when Al Jolson was singing and Babe Ruth was hitting the","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508#t=683.78,689.27"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508/transcript/64967/annotation/129","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"homeruns and things of that nature, you know? So I've been a very fortunate.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508#t=689.27,696.9"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508/transcript/64967/annotation/130","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"God has been good to me, and granted me  longevity so I have seen a lot. I have a lot","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508#t=696.9,702.96"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508/transcript/64967/annotation/131","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"to- to- to leave in an interview such as this for the people who might read it","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508#t=702.96,709.26"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508/transcript/64967/annotation/132","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"because, you know, things have changed a whole lot. The mentality of the people now","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508#t=709.26,715.59"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508/transcript/64967/annotation/133","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"and, and it- it- it's changed a whole lot when tenderness was part of being human at","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508#t=715.59,723.45"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508/transcript/64967/annotation/134","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"that time. Today, you know, you have a lot of kids, you know, experimenting with drugs,","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508#t=723.45,728.97"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508/transcript/64967/annotation/135","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"trying to join other organizations to fight against our country. People are- are, it's a","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508#t=728.97,735.33"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508/transcript/64967/annotation/136","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"very different mentality now. But anyway, I got carried away on that. But you asked me a","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508#t=735.33,740.79"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508/transcript/64967/annotation/137","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"question that-","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508#t=740.79,741.84"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508/transcript/64967/annotation/138","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Yes, sir-","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508#t=741.84,742.23"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508/transcript/64967/annotation/139","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"and I-","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508#t=742.23,742.24"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508/transcript/64967/annotation/140","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Let's talk about the neighborhoods you grew up in before moving to the better house and","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508#t=742.24,748.59"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508/transcript/64967/annotation/141","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"the better neighborhood.  What was a house like that ya'll moved to?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508#t=748.59,751.5"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508/transcript/64967/annotation/142","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Well, the house was, I would say below average at the home that we used to rent.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508#t=751.5,761.59"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508/transcript/64967/annotation/143","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"They were roach infested. Mother would-  would grab the, you know, pesticide to kill","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508#t=761.59,769.36"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508/transcript/64967/annotation/144","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"the roaches, would clean the house with- with soap and water all over it. 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Right there, near Lyons Avenue and Jensen and all that area, I still","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508#t=788.32,794.45"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508/transcript/64967/annotation/148","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"go by there and see the vacant lot when I was a little bitty kid, maybe five years old","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508#t=794.45,799.52"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508/transcript/64967/annotation/149","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"walking around.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508#t=799.52,800.33"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508/transcript/64967/annotation/150","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"What was the name of that neighborhood?  What did you all call that neighborhood?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508#t=800.33,803.15"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508/transcript/64967/annotation/151","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"That neighborhood was Lyons Avenue or Fifth Ward.  I used to live in Fifth Ward [..].","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508#t=803.15,810.26"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508/transcript/64967/annotation/152","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Let's see, I was born on Opelousas Street and the- the area I'm referring to where we used","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508#t=810.26,816.56"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508/transcript/64967/annotation/153","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"to live was Jensen and Lyons.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508#t=816.56,819.83"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508/transcript/64967/annotation/154","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"And right now, it's called Little Harlem.  At that time, but now it's empty lots all over","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508#t=819.83,825.56"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508/transcript/64967/annotation/155","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"because the super highway went through there and they tore down all the houses.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508#t=825.56,830.55"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508/transcript/64967/annotation/156","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"There's nothing there, but vacant lots now.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508#t=830.55,833.03"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508/transcript/64967/annotation/157","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"And then in that- in that area where you lived was- was it mostly Mexicanos who lived there?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508#t=833.03,839.3"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508/transcript/64967/annotation/158","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Well, we were, yeah, we were mostly  Mexicanos, but at the time, my neighbors to","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508#t=839.3,845.12"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508/transcript/64967/annotation/159","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"one side were- were black people and we used to get along real good, you know, [within-","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508#t=845.12,849.85"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508/transcript/64967/annotation/160","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"within the classrooms]. We would get along real good. The idea of, of a rebellious","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508#t=849.85,858.9"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508/transcript/64967/annotation/161","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"minority element was not yet  in full bloom then.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508#t=858.9,863.54"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508/transcript/64967/annotation/162","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"People were, were enjoying life, working, trying to build a home, trying to be- better","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508#t=863.54,870.72"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508/transcript/64967/annotation/163","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"themselves and- and civil rights and all of that had to wait for another day.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508#t=870.72,875.76"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508/transcript/64967/annotation/164","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"But the Mexican American community  hardly mingled with the Anglo. I used","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508#t=875.76,881.61"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508/transcript/64967/annotation/165","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"to go to a predominantly  Latin-American school.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508#t=881.61,885.27"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508/transcript/64967/annotation/166","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"So therein lies the reason  that when I went to","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508#t=885.27,889.92"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508/transcript/64967/annotation/167","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Jeff Davis High School, I had what is known as an inferiority complex because the Anglo","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508#t=889.92,898.68"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508/transcript/64967/annotation/168","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"did not accept us as equals you know, and they used to belittle most of us with dark skin.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508#t=898.68,906.54"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508/transcript/64967/annotation/169","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"There a were lot of Mexican Americans like the Quintanillas and the [Brazos] that","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508#t=906.54,911.67"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508/transcript/64967/annotation/170","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"were light-skinned Mexicanos. And they were well accepted. My, my, my cousin Alfonso was","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508#t=911.67,920.97"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508/transcript/64967/annotation/171","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"light-complected and he was even dating Anglo American girls, you know? But people of","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508#t=920.97,927.5"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508/transcript/64967/annotation/172","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"brown skin that were known visibly as Mexican-American they, we had a hard time.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508#t=927.5,934.02"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508/transcript/64967/annotation/173","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Could you- could you explain what kind of hard time it was?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508#t=934.02,936.22"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508/transcript/64967/annotation/174","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Well, for instance, I'll give you a, for instance, I was in the class one time and","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508#t=936.22,943.8"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508/transcript/64967/annotation/175","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"they were talking to studying about the Middle Ages and the Renaissance period in England.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508#t=943.8,950.58"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508/transcript/64967/annotation/176","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"And so, when they ask a question they asked me,  but they didn't refer to me as Jesse.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508#t=950.58,961.22"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508/transcript/64967/annotation/177","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"They- the-  the principals and the  professors, the teachers, said, \"Hey,","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508#t=961.22,965.36"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508/transcript/64967/annotation/178","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Mexico, answer that question.\" Of course, you know, I would blush, I blushed and I got real","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508#t=965.36,974.63"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508/transcript/64967/annotation/179","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"timid because he had called me Mexico. There's other people, they were like the","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508#t=974.63,979.42"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508/transcript/64967/annotation/180","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"[Tallerinas] and [Trumpetors]. There was an  Italian American. They wouldn't dare call","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508#t=979.42,985.07"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508/transcript/64967/annotation/181","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"him a Italian, [get up and answer this question] or the other guy that was Irish or","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508#t=985.07,989.74"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508/transcript/64967/annotation/182","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"what have you. But he singled me out and he  publicly he belittled me by","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508#t=989.74,995.62"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508/transcript/64967/annotation/183","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"referring me by my background. \"Mexico, get up, answer the question.\" Well, I walked out","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508#t=995.62,1000.99"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508/transcript/64967/annotation/184","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"of there and I went straight to the principal and I told him what happened. He came back","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508#t=1000.99,1006.02"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508/transcript/64967/annotation/185","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"and I called the teacher to the hallway and made him apologize to me. But, underneath all","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508#t=1006.02,1014.24"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508/transcript/64967/annotation/186","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"of that, I realize that this country was- was founded on the principle that all of us are","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508#t=1014.24,1022.07"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508/transcript/64967/annotation/187","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"equal, you know, so consequently that buoyed me up and made me resilient to things like that.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508#t=1022.07,1031.82"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508/transcript/64967/annotation/188","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"The next incident that happened at Jeff Davis High School was that I was in the","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508#t=1031.82,1037.58"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508/transcript/64967/annotation/189","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"woodworking shop period, you know, and the [Mr. Kepesky] which was our woodworking teacher.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508#t=1037.58,1046.67"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508/transcript/64967/annotation/190","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"He would never allow me to- to get near the  bandsaws or the drill press or the lathe.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508#t=1046.67,1054.23"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508/transcript/64967/annotation/191","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"He'd always get, prefer the other students.  I went through the whole semester without","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508#t=1054.23,1059.91"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508/transcript/64967/annotation/192","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"getting a chance to use the drill press.  Or the bandsaw.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508#t=1059.91,1065.06"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508/transcript/64967/annotation/193","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Because there was always some other guy in front of me and so I felt discriminated against.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508#t=1065.06,1071.67"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508/transcript/64967/annotation/194","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"So what happened was, right then and there,  adversity sometimes is [lever] for you","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508#t=1071.67,1078.39"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508/transcript/64967/annotation/195","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"to pick up yourself and be somebody.  I said to myself, You know what? One day I would","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508#t=1078.39,1085.29"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508/transcript/64967/annotation/196","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"have enough money to buy all of the machines here.  And now, if you go to my workshop, you","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508#t=1085.29,1090.93"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508/transcript/64967/annotation/197","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"could see that I got a bandsaw, a drill pre, I got the whole thing. 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Don't let people put you down.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508#t=1133.54,1141.06"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508/transcript/64967/annotation/204","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"You're as good as anybody else.\"  So I- I kept that in the back of my- my- my mind.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508#t=1141.06,1150.7"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508/transcript/64967/annotation/205","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"And so eventually something good happened to me.  I went in the army. 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You know, I wanted to go out there and fight for my country.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508#t=1528.48,1534.33"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508/transcript/64967/annotation/264","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I don't know. Maybe it was my youth, I was 20 years old, 21. And at that time, you don't","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508#t=1534.33,1540.84"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508/transcript/64967/annotation/265","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"feel too much for your security. You know you- you want to do drastic things and- and-","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508#t=1540.84,1547.11"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508/transcript/64967/annotation/266","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"and there was a call for the infantry right at the beginning of the Battle of the Bulge,","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508#t=1547.11,1553.11"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508/transcript/64967/annotation/267","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"where our troops were being slaughtered over there by a counteroffensive from the Germans.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508#t=1553.11,1558.72"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508/transcript/64967/annotation/268","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"And I volunteered and we was in, I was in,  let's see, I was in Fresno, California, on-","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508#t=1558.72,1566.7"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508/transcript/64967/annotation/269","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"on December the 20th.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508#t=1566.7,1570.09"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508/transcript/64967/annotation/270","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"And by January of the 15th of 1945, [I was  on the] the frontline in Belgium and Holland","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508#t=1570.09,1577.86"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508/transcript/64967/annotation/271","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"and Luxembourg.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508#t=1577.86,1578.79"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508/transcript/64967/annotation/272","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Let's talk about that. Let's talk about your war experiences. When did you first hear","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508#t=1578.79,1583.41"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508/transcript/64967/annotation/273","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"about the war overseas? How old were you and when did you first hear about it?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508#t=1583.41,1587.61"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508/transcript/64967/annotation/274","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"When I heard about the war?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508#t=1587.61,1589.44"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508/transcript/64967/annotation/275","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Yes.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508#t=1589.44,1589.83"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508/transcript/64967/annotation/276","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I was working for Jack Croft on Lyons Avenue  by, where I was training to become a shoe repairman.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508#t=1589.83,1595.98"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508/transcript/64967/annotation/277","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"And he was Jewish, and him and Henry Wiesenthal,  which eventually became a","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508#t=1595.98,1602.52"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508/transcript/64967/annotation/278","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"name known for- for selling clothes for high- high- high priced clothes.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508#t=1602.52,1609.75"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508/transcript/64967/annotation/279","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Henry Wiesenthal, when he- he was evicted from Germany or whether he had escaped from","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508#t=1609.75,1615.48"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508/transcript/64967/annotation/280","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Germany, from Berlin and came to- to- to the United States and the Jewish community, set","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508#t=1615.48,1622.68"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508/transcript/64967/annotation/281","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"him up in business and so him and- and- and-  and Jack Croft, my boss, who- who was my","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508#t=1622.68,1630.06"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508/transcript/64967/annotation/282","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"mentor, Jack Croft, the Jewish guy. I loved him tremendously for the contribution that he","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508#t=1630.06,1637.71"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508/transcript/64967/annotation/283","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"had had [changed] my way of thinking.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508#t=1637.71,1641.07"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508/transcript/64967/annotation/284","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"So Jack Croft and him would communicate  in Yiddish and they would say, [...].","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508#t=1641.07,1647.34"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508/transcript/64967/annotation/285","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"And he would say, [...], and  they would talk and I'd catch a couple of words.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508#t=1647.34,1653.28"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508/transcript/64967/annotation/286","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Then they opened up the paper and they were reading about the Germans exterminating","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508#t=1653.28,1659.13"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508/transcript/64967/annotation/287","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"the- the Crystal Night when they took all the Jews that were, and then they sent 'em into","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508#t=1659.13,1665.32"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508/transcript/64967/annotation/288","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"slave camps. And- and of course you know, that's when I heard about the war. I used to","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508#t=1665.32,1670.55"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508/transcript/64967/annotation/289","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"idolize the Germans for their tenacity in fighting a war. I was young, maybe 19, 20","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508#t=1670.55,1677.01"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508/transcript/64967/annotation/290","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"years old, and I would like to see [news warfare breakdown] in- in the newsreel. 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I've got to","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508#t=1688.41,1694.98"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508/transcript/64967/annotation/293","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"go fight 'em,\" and Jack Croft would tell me,  \"Boo boo, when you get drafted. 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I was going to high school and","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508#t=1726.09,1731.61"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508/transcript/64967/annotation/300","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"in high school something happened to me that I want to tell y'all because I'm, I was gonna","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508#t=1731.61,1739.24"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508/transcript/64967/annotation/301","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"graduate with my class, I was barely gonna graduate, I'm making Ds, but I had enough Ds","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508#t=1739.24,1746.41"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508/transcript/64967/annotation/302","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"in English, English five. I had a D average, so it was a passing grade. It was just a","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508#t=1746.41,1753.14"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508/transcript/64967/annotation/303","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"barely passing grade. But I lost my textbook and Miss Giskey was my teacher and she said,","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508#t=1753.14,1759.8"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508/transcript/64967/annotation/304","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\"You owe us 65 cents.\" I didn't have the 65  cents, but maybe it was my youth, my","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508#t=1759.8,1767.83"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508/transcript/64967/annotation/305","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"rebellious attitude. I told 'em, I don't have the 65 cents, I'm sorry. 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Otherwise, you're gonna regret it.\" So I","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508#t=1773.23,1778.9"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508/transcript/64967/annotation/307","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"didn't bring it and the next morning, she  said, \"You got the 65 cents?\" \"No ma'am.\"","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508#t=1778.9,1783.26"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508/transcript/64967/annotation/308","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"She says, \"Come here, young man.\" She says, \"You know, you were making a passing grade,","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508#t=1783.26,1788.18"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508/transcript/64967/annotation/309","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"a D. You were gonna graduate, but I'm gonna to change it to an F.\" She did.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508#t=1788.18,1795.48"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508/transcript/64967/annotation/310","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I didn't graduate. I told her, said, \"Well, I don't care. 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They gave it to me at St Patrick's Church.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508#t=1827.07,1834.3"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508/transcript/64967/annotation/316","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"They put a gown on me and a cap  [soon as you graduate]. Isn't that something?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508#t=1834.3,1841.47"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508/transcript/64967/annotation/317","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"But I didn't need it, I mean, I- I've written a lot- a lot of things. 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I said, \"I didn't come to join this organization to- to have","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508#t=1870.1,1877.08"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508/transcript/64967/annotation/323","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"dances and socialize.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508#t=1877.08,1879.0"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508/transcript/64967/annotation/324","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I came here to help the people [that we're  able to now].\" And [so I had trouble","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508#t=1879.0,1882.36"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508/transcript/64967/annotation/325","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"sometimes] started a basket program, [...],  had 50 baskets. 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And so it made a difference.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508#t=1914.85,1919.84"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508/transcript/64967/annotation/331","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"That's- that's what happened to me, you know?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508#t=1919.84,1922.47"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508/transcript/64967/annotation/332","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"And so when you volunteered, which branch of the military did you enlist to?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508#t=1922.47,1929.19"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508/transcript/64967/annotation/333","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Infantry.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508#t=1929.19,1929.34"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508/transcript/64967/annotation/334","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"And that's for-","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508#t=1929.34,1929.85"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508/transcript/64967/annotation/335","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I wanted into the in, I wanted  to go into the infantry.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508#t=1929.85,1932.4"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508/transcript/64967/annotation/336","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Is that the U.S. Army?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508#t=1932.4,1934.38"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508/transcript/64967/annotation/337","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I was in the Air Force. I was in the 8th Air Force in Fresno, California, but I got tired","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508#t=1934.38,1940.83"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508/transcript/64967/annotation/338","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"of chasing all the women in town and drinking all the beer. And I wanted to go out there.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508#t=1940.83,1945.32"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508/transcript/64967/annotation/339","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Yeah, I mean, I had- Three or four girls I  was supposed to get married to.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508#t=1945.32,1954.62"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508/transcript/64967/annotation/340","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Never heard from, you know how those things go when you're 21 and handsome, you know?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508#t=1954.62,1960.59"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508/transcript/64967/annotation/341","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"But- but- but I just, I just got tired of that.  I said I better go out there and defend","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508#t=1960.59,1965.72"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508/transcript/64967/annotation/342","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"my country and they took me  right away and that.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508#t=1965.72,1969.46"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508/transcript/64967/annotation/343","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Tell me about your training, you say you were, you did your training in Mississippi.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508#t=1969.46,1972.91"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508/transcript/64967/annotation/344","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"What was that like?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508#t=1972.91,1973.98"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508/transcript/64967/annotation/345","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"No, that was the first basic training then I had infantry training in a camp out in Texas.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508#t=1973.98,1980.38"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508/transcript/64967/annotation/346","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"And of course, we had to go and learn how to fire, throw a mortar here and- and- and","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508#t=1980.38,1986.53"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508/transcript/64967/annotation/347","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"grenades and machine gun, 30 caliber.  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You could see a field, field of maybe miles of nothing but burnt out American","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508#t=2056.22,2065.1"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508/transcript/64967/annotation/358","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"tanks and German tanks, where they had the big, gigantic tank battle and each side of","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508#t=2065.1,2072.18"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508/transcript/64967/annotation/359","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"those tanks, they was still the bodies.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508#t=2072.18,2087.95"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508/transcript/64967/annotation/360","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"The soldiers were still inside the tanks. 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And that- that's the well,  that's one of the things that go with war.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508#t=2423.12,2429.82"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508/transcript/64967/annotation/417","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"And I- I- I- I saw a lot of instances where a lot of my buddies got killed.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508#t=2429.82,2435.31"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508/transcript/64967/annotation/418","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"In- in fact, we went up a hill and what 30 of us come, and only about 15, 20 of us came down.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508#t=2435.31,2441.75"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508/transcript/64967/annotation/419","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"That's when I, they made me a sergeant because they didn't have enough people.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508#t=2441.75,2446.41"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508/transcript/64967/annotation/420","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"They said, \"Jesse, you're going to be  a staff sergeant.\" And the next day","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508#t=2446.41,2450.06"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508/transcript/64967/annotation/421","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"they- they read my orders and they,  I inherited a- a- a squad.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508#t=2450.06,2456.38"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508/transcript/64967/annotation/422","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I'm the squad leader.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508#t=2456.38,2458.92"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508/transcript/64967/annotation/423","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I- I'm in charge of them, of these people. They just jump in and they were from Boston.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508#t=2458.92,2464.41"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508/transcript/64967/annotation/424","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"One guy's name is B from Boston. Another guy was Georgopoulos. Another guy, I half forget","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508#t=2464.41,2470.56"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508/transcript/64967/annotation/425","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"their names, you know? But I had my own squad and they used to respect me a whole lot.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508#t=2470.56,2476.65"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508/transcript/64967/annotation/426","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"One time I saw one American  soldier from Louisiana.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508#t=2476.65,2482.49"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508/transcript/64967/annotation/427","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"He was trying to force his way with a girl, German girl and the pop and mamma came crying","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508#t=2482.49,2489.96"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508/transcript/64967/annotation/428","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"to our commander and said that the drunken American soldier was trying to have his way","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508#t=2489.96,2495.6"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508/transcript/64967/annotation/429","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"with their daughter. And so he happened  to be Bedford. He was in my squad. So he said,","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508#t=2495.6,2502.65"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508/transcript/64967/annotation/430","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\"Jesse, go [handle your man], one of 'em is gonna muck over there with a girl and you got","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508#t=2502.65,2507.63"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508/transcript/64967/annotation/431","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"to go over there and quiet them down.\" So, I went over there where I said, I had [pulled","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508#t=2507.63,2512.64"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508/transcript/64967/annotation/432","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"out my gun] and there he is up there, you know, having this girl on his lap and front","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508#t=2512.64,2518.61"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508/transcript/64967/annotation/433","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"and she was trying to get away and the mama [crying, all that]. I took my gun out,","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508#t=2518.61,2523.56"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508/transcript/64967/annotation/434","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"[stood there], \"Come on, let's go.\" \"I ain't  taking orders from no Mexican\". \"What?\"","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508#t=2523.56,2530.48"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508/transcript/64967/annotation/435","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I took my gun, pow!","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508#t=2530.48,2532.59"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508/transcript/64967/annotation/436","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"He says, \"Yes sir, what do you want?\" \"Let's go. Vamanos.\" And I brought him in. Well his","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508#t=2532.59,2538.74"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508/transcript/64967/annotation/437","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"buddies were on the front line. They were right there.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508#t=2538.74,2541.14"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508/transcript/64967/annotation/438","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Hey, get out here, [Charlie Brown]! Get.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508#t=2541.14,2545.02"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508/transcript/64967/annotation/439","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"And so his buddies were- were gonna try to protect him, you know.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508#t=2545.02,2549.95"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508/transcript/64967/annotation/440","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\"Hey, this guy got me-\", I said,  \"[Line pumps to the right].\"","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508#t=2549.95,2555.26"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508/transcript/64967/annotation/441","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"And so they all backed down. When I brought  him in, I told 'em, \"Commander put 'em,","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508#t=2555.26,2559.84"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508/transcript/64967/annotation/442","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"lock him up.\" Well the next morning  he apologized to me, you know,","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508#t=2559.84,2565.31"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508/transcript/64967/annotation/443","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"But they let that happen to him.  And when you're a squad leader, you have","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508#t=2565.31,2570.35"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508/transcript/64967/annotation/444","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"to do what they tell you. But anyway, when  I, one of the ironies that","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508#t=2570.35,2580.32"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508/transcript/64967/annotation/445","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I experienced in- in- in war was sad.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508#t=2580.32,2584.7"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508/transcript/64967/annotation/446","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Li- I really wouldn't talk about, you know, people dying, you know. I'm te- telling you","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508#t=2584.7,2590.16"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508/transcript/64967/annotation/447","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"about this girl named Sophia, this German girl in a little town between Frankfurt and","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508#t=2590.16,2596.46"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508/transcript/64967/annotation/448","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Munich, Germany. Well, her sister and her would  wear black, and they would kneel down and","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508#t=2596.46,2604.05"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508/transcript/64967/annotation/449","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"say a rosary every night and so their mother would join and they was staying upstairs, we","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508#t=2604.05,2610.8"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508/transcript/64967/annotation/450","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"were staying downstairs in the house we had confiscated and we became friends with Sophia","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508#t=2610.8,2617.31"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508/transcript/64967/annotation/451","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"and her daughter, Lorraine. 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You don't understand.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508#t=2643.38,2648.78"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508/transcript/64967/annotation/456","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"[... my father].","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508#t=2648.78,2650.88"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508/transcript/64967/annotation/457","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Oh, where's he at?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508#t=2650.88,2653.69"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508/transcript/64967/annotation/458","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Dead, he's dead. Afrika Korp, he's dead. Ah,  we're sorry, sorry, sorry.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508#t=2653.69,2660.69"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508/transcript/64967/annotation/459","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Open the next, her brother. Louisoix, an airplane pilot.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508#t=2660.69,2667.85"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508/transcript/64967/annotation/460","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Dead, killed over in England.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508#t=2667.85,2672.87"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508/transcript/64967/annotation/461","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"The- the- the air force, the royal air force shot him down. Another one, the Russian front","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508#t=2672.87,2679.08"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508/transcript/64967/annotation/462","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"is missing in action. Three in the family.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508#t=2679.08,2683.86"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508/transcript/64967/annotation/463","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"The only three members, male members of the family gone. Their house devastated. I mean,","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508#t=2683.86,2691.98"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508/transcript/64967/annotation/464","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"those people in Germany and not only Germany, France, Czechoslovakia, they suffered a war.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508#t=2691.98,2699.65"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508/transcript/64967/annotation/465","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"In America, we don't know what war is.  And that's when I learned, you know,","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508#t=2699.65,2705.25"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508/transcript/64967/annotation/466","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"that it was ugly. And why do people go to war?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508#t=2705.25,2709.95"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508/transcript/64967/annotation/467","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"And I, you know, through my old age and  picking up knowledge here and there.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508#t=2709.95,2717.07"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508/transcript/64967/annotation/468","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I finally come up to the conclusion is that people go to war to settle differences","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508#t=2717.07,2724.24"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508/transcript/64967/annotation/469","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"created by, that they try to interpret history  from the perspective of their own identity.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508#t=2724.24,2734.12"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508/transcript/64967/annotation/470","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"In other words, I- I go back into that theory because in Mexico, when the","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508#t=2734.12,2739.16"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508/transcript/64967/annotation/471","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"United States, with the Mexican-American war happened, there is no country in the world","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508#t=2739.16,2747.21"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508/transcript/64967/annotation/472","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"that has never been deprived of so much territory, and the Mexican nation was, as a","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508#t=2747.21,2753.57"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508/transcript/64967/annotation/473","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"result of losing a war, they lost Texas, Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado and all of","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508#t=2753.57,2761.77"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508/transcript/64967/annotation/474","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"these places. The United States took 'em over as a result of the Guadalupe treaty between","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508#t=2761.77,2768.69"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508/transcript/64967/annotation/475","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Mexico and the United States. There was an outrage.  And that's why you look at history","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508#t=2768.69,2775.68"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508/transcript/64967/annotation/476","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"from, where I went to high school, they never talked too much about that. 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Their history reveals something different.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508#t=2788.67,2794.7"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508/transcript/64967/annotation/479","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"So what's happening in- in all these countries over there in the Middle East","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508#t=2794.7,2798.63"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508/transcript/64967/annotation/480","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"and all is everybody sees history from their own individual identity.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508#t=2798.63,2807.02"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508/transcript/64967/annotation/481","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"So that's why you go to war and so that's tragedy of today and now, today with the age","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508#t=2807.02,2815.28"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508/transcript/64967/annotation/482","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"of- of the computer and the internet and all  this and that, it's too much knowledge too","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508#t=2815.28,2822.41"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508/transcript/64967/annotation/483","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"quick in the heads of people who can't [take a salary]. See, so any way I don't want to","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508#t=2822.41,2829.66"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508/transcript/64967/annotation/484","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"get all [philosophical on you].","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508#t=2829.66,2830.47"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508/transcript/64967/annotation/485","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"When you were- when you were first deployed overseas, where did you first arrive to and","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508#t=2830.47,2835.87"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508/transcript/64967/annotation/486","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"what year was that?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508#t=2835.87,2837.94"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508/transcript/64967/annotation/487","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Well, when I went overseas, it was in 1944,  and then I, well, I embarked on the biggest","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508#t=2837.94,2847.87"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508/transcript/64967/annotation/488","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"ship afloat, which was the Queen Elizabeth 2. 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And we made it over in six and a half days. We- we got to","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508#t=2881.19,2887.07"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508/transcript/64967/annotation/494","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Glasgow, Glasgow, England and from Glasgow we went by rail to- to London and then from","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508#t=2887.07,2895.23"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508/transcript/64967/annotation/495","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"London, we went across the channel on- on  this little landing craft. 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They would march up to our [column] of American","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508#t=2950.12,2955.26"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508/transcript/64967/annotation/505","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"soldiers, would spit on 'em, and we had to take it because, you know, we was commanded","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508#t=2955.26,2960.41"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508/transcript/64967/annotation/506","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"to take it. 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But you","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508#t=2980.85,2986.63"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508/transcript/64967/annotation/510","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"know, when you land in Omaha and Normandy  beaches, you can't be adhering to that kind","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508#t=2986.63,2993.02"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508/transcript/64967/annotation/511","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"of principle. You're gonna go and take, you  know dish it out the best you can and get","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508#t=2993.02,2998.89"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508/transcript/64967/annotation/512","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"your gold, and that's what we did. That's what we're known to do.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508#t=2998.89,3003.18"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508/transcript/64967/annotation/513","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Were you part of the D-Day invasion?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508#t=3003.18,3005.1"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508/transcript/64967/annotation/514","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"No, I wasn't. I came in after the Battle of the Bulge, I wish I would have been. I have-","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508#t=3005.1,3010.59"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508/transcript/64967/annotation/515","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I have one of my relatives used to be on the- on the D-Day, but he's dead now. He was a","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508#t=3010.59,3017.52"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508/transcript/64967/annotation/516","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"commanding one of the landing crafts.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508#t=3017.52,3019.5"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508/transcript/64967/annotation/517","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"What's his name?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508#t=3019.5,3020.85"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508/transcript/64967/annotation/518","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"His name was [Gilbert Aguilar].","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508#t=3020.85,3024.32"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508/transcript/64967/annotation/519","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"In fact, I have a picture of him. 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So our  tankers would go over there, still remembered","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508#t=3411.76,3417.49"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508/transcript/64967/annotation/585","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"what happened to that, [...]. And get, sit on top of the water hose and grind the water","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508#t=3417.49,3424.15"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508/transcript/64967/annotation/586","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"hose to- to nothing. No trickle of water went through it.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508#t=3424.15,3429.92"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508/transcript/64967/annotation/587","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"And so the general would, I was on top of the tank and I went like this, and I was looking","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508#t=3429.92,3434.51"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508/transcript/64967/annotation/588","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"at that German civilian look at me,  \"Why you do that? My- why? Why?\" You know?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508#t=3434.51,3442.79"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508/transcript/64967/annotation/589","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"And what are you gonna tell him? 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And I became the interpreter. I would- I would","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508#t=3461.45,3468.66"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508/transcript/64967/annotation/593","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"learn phrases, you know, relevant to our  situation whereby our lieutenant would grab","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508#t=3468.66,3475.23"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508/transcript/64967/annotation/594","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"a 45, put it to guy's head. \"Tell me how many soldiers that were here or I'm about to blow","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508#t=3475.23,3481.42"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508/transcript/64967/annotation/595","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"your brains out.\" And the guy would say so  many. Well [know] they used me as an","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508#t=3481.42,3485.61"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508/transcript/64967/annotation/596","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"interpreter. \"Jesse, come over here. Can you  talk [...]?.\"Yeah, [speaking German].\"","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508#t=3485.61,3493.35"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508/transcript/64967/annotation/597","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I start talking to him, and I would  holler at the German, [speaking German].","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508#t=3493.35,3501.3"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508/transcript/64967/annotation/598","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"And they would,","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508#t=3501.3,3503.04"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508/transcript/64967/annotation/599","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"What does- what does that does that mean?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508#t=3503.04,3504.12"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508/transcript/64967/annotation/600","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I [kept 11 altogether]. The first day I  captured four Germans, when I tell you that","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508#t=3504.12,3510.21"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508/transcript/64967/annotation/601","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"guy, I got my BAR.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508#t=3510.21,3512.43"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508/transcript/64967/annotation/602","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Getting back to the pillboxes these guys were going out to get water and they had killed a","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508#t=3512.43,3519.51"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508/transcript/64967/annotation/603","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"couple of rabbits and they had 'em in a pole  straight and they were coming along.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508#t=3519.51,3524.58"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508/transcript/64967/annotation/604","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Smoking a cigarette with a rifle, something like this, walking in the snow, coming to the","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508#t=3524.58,3530.01"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508/transcript/64967/annotation/605","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"pillboxes, and we was lying down. And I saw them coming down.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508#t=3530.01,3536.55"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508/transcript/64967/annotation/606","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"[...] and they weren't Americans, these was my first Germans I ever seen in my life.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508#t=3536.55,3542.62"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508/transcript/64967/annotation/607","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"And he, so I went like this to where Sheffield  is, the guy from Montana. Idaho, I'm sorry.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508#t=3542.62,3549.76"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508/transcript/64967/annotation/608","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I told him, \"Sheffield,\" he was my step  sergeant. \"Enemies coming down that way.\"","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508#t=3549.76,3555.21"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508/transcript/64967/annotation/609","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\"Well, you was over there weren't you? Get back over there, your position, you'll be the","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508#t=3555.21,3560.09"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508/transcript/64967/annotation/610","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"first one to encounter them.  We'll protect you. You can drop 'em.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508#t=3560.09,3565.51"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508/transcript/64967/annotation/611","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"When they get to you, you get  out there and catch 'em.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508#t=3565.51,3569.83"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508/transcript/64967/annotation/612","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"We'll be behind you.\" Man, I had about, just a rifle then, I didn't the BAR, I said okay","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508#t=3569.83,3577.99"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508/transcript/64967/annotation/613","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"and here they come back, I look back. I mean, there's no man, I was really hurting. I would","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508#t=3577.99,3584.52"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508/transcript/64967/annotation/614","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"well, I did. And here they come walking. You could almost [...] yeah, yeah, talking and I","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508#t=3584.52,3592.29"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508/transcript/64967/annotation/615","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"would be, \"Now?\" \"No, no, no, no, no. I'll  tell you when.\" Down!","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508#t=3592.29,3598.0"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508/transcript/64967/annotation/616","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Men, they're coming down. 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See you didn't get nothing.\"","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508#t=3665.49,3670.77"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508/transcript/64967/annotation/630","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Others would get the loot, you know,  stuff like that. 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And you know, another thing when you're","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508#t=3690.76,3694.12"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508/transcript/64967/annotation/634","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"in infantry, you got to go house to house fighting. And that- that- that- that's bad, that house","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508#t=3694.12,3699.76"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508/transcript/64967/annotation/635","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"to house is no bueno. 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Things happen like that in war, you know. One time, the guy [Abrego] and","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508#t=3746.98,3754.27"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508/transcript/64967/annotation/645","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"me was in a [pack hole], he fell asleep.  And the troop took off, left a trail of snow","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508#t=3754.27,3760.98"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508/transcript/64967/annotation/646","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"and my buddy, [Greg Daniel] from-  from Brooklyn, he- he noticed that I wasn't,","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508#t=3760.98,3767.53"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508/transcript/64967/annotation/647","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\"Where's Jesse?\" \"We left him back there.  Let's go.\" \"I'm going back.\"","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508#t=3767.53,3772.36"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508/transcript/64967/annotation/648","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"He traveled about maybe eight hundred yards  to where I was still there holding","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508#t=3772.36,3778.51"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508/transcript/64967/annotation/649","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"the other guy [...]. He was for two hours on,  two hours off. 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You know, he would try to do the [Matuidi].","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508#t=3827.29,3833.44"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508/transcript/64967/annotation/659","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"That's unless we saw him. 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[Not, you  know medals, not you know medals].","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508#t=3895.05,3904.97"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508/transcript/64967/annotation/671","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"And we went into [the kitchens], Germany and there was a fire going on in this house and","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508#t=3904.97,3911.19"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508/transcript/64967/annotation/672","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"we had to, we had given orders to- to- to attack the center of the little town.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508#t=3911.19,3918.88"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508/transcript/64967/annotation/673","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"On top of tanks, tanks would come roll up then they wouldn't raise the tanks, get close","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508#t=3918.88,3925.57"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508/transcript/64967/annotation/674","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"because they would have an empty tank on,  infantry had to get up and go in there and","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508#t=3925.57,3930.52"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508/transcript/64967/annotation/675","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"clear the town before the tanks would come in.  And so my order, I was a sergeant and","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508#t=3930.52,3936.7"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508/transcript/64967/annotation/676","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Sergeant [Dallery] had his own squad.  So when- when we got to the little town,","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508#t=3936.7,3941.77"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508/transcript/64967/annotation/677","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"we met all kind of resistance, you know? 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So you know what, Jesse and you know me the","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508#t=3958.93,3964.01"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508/transcript/64967/annotation/681","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"dummy, I guess they always [picked me as the tommy gun], he said, \"Yeah.\" I said, \"No,\" he","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508#t=3964.01,3970.28"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508/transcript/64967/annotation/682","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"had come in D-Day, so actually, I respected him a lot. \"Look, Jesse. 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And he did.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508#t=4091.95,4095.23"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508/transcript/64967/annotation/706","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Those guys move out of the way  and he [psst]. Boom, it come in","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508#t=4095.23,4099.81"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508/transcript/64967/annotation/707","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"where we was at. 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And man we were knocked out, black all over.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508#t=4125.04,4130.69"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508/transcript/64967/annotation/712","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"And those Germans kept on running.  I was dead.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508#t=4130.69,4135.73"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508/transcript/64967/annotation/713","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I didn't know where the hell I was.  Stunned, you know, like when you're boxing,","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508#t=4135.73,4139.51"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508/transcript/64967/annotation/714","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"somebody hit you, [one of you knocked out].  Well, that's what happened to me. 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I sobered up quick.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508#t=4158.47,4164.18"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508/transcript/64967/annotation/719","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I mean, your, that's one way to sober up from that tequila stuff he was drinking, but that","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508#t=4164.18,4169.63"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508/transcript/64967/annotation/720","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"what happened to me on that  particular day and it went bad.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508#t=4169.63,4173.65"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508/transcript/64967/annotation/721","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"What kind of recommendations did you get, what kind of honors did you receive?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508#t=4173.65,4177.81"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508/transcript/64967/annotation/722","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Did what honors? Like I said, I was written up for the, some kind of, I think, Bronze","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508#t=4177.81,4182.77"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508/transcript/64967/annotation/723","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Star or something in that particular incident, but then they put me up for a, for","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508#t=4182.77,4188.68"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508/transcript/64967/annotation/724","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"saving another guy who got blinded. And I think they got neither. 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I said, \"You get it.\" So I was- I was never-","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508#t=4198.97,4205.18"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508/transcript/64967/annotation/727","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"never one to, you know, when Dateline happened, you get together, you start telling","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508#t=4205.18,4209.92"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508/transcript/64967/annotation/728","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"them what what you saw and what you did. Some of us the verify it and you got yourself","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508#t=4209.92,4215.32"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508/transcript/64967/annotation/729","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"a medal. But I never went in for nothing like that. I was just so happy to, mother would","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508#t=4215.32,4221.41"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508/transcript/64967/annotation/730","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"send me a prayer, you know? And all I did when I was over there in [...] was pray that","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508#t=4221.41,4229.0"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508/transcript/64967/annotation/731","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"God give me the- the privilege to go back home, find a woman that was comparable to the","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508#t=4229.0,4236.8"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508/transcript/64967/annotation/732","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"woman that my mother had married and- and-  and get married to and raise a family close","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508#t=4236.8,4243.31"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508/transcript/64967/annotation/733","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"to God as best I could and to give me the courage to come back home. And you know, he","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508#t=4243.31,4248.8"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508/transcript/64967/annotation/734","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"granted that because when I came back, I met my Frances, my- my- my love of my life.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508#t=4248.8,4256.81"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508/transcript/64967/annotation/735","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"What year did you come back in?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508#t=4256.81,4259.75"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508/transcript/64967/annotation/736","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"1949, no when I came back?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508#t=4259.75,4261.19"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508/transcript/64967/annotation/737","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Yes, sir.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508#t=4261.19,4261.74"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508/transcript/64967/annotation/738","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I came back in 1946.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508#t=4261.74,4268.55"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508/transcript/64967/annotation/739","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"And you came back to Houston?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508#t=4268.55,4270.47"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508/transcript/64967/annotation/740","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"To Houston? Oh, yeah, I came back to Baltimore, Maryland, you know, and then we-","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508#t=4270.47,4276.13"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508/transcript/64967/annotation/741","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"we came in [through, through ... a port],  here in Houston and Texas, where we","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508#t=4276.13,4283.43"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508/transcript/64967/annotation/742","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"got discharged and all that, but like 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Texas.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508#t=4296.11,4299.22"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508/transcript/64967/annotation/748","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"And-.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508#t=4299.22,4300.72"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508/transcript/64967/annotation/749","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"How did you two 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I had been going  around with a girl from Veracruz, Mexico.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508#t=4303.27,4309.81"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508/transcript/64967/annotation/753","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"That chick could dance the rumba  better than [...]. I mean, that woman","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508#t=4309.81,4314.15"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508/transcript/64967/annotation/754","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"could rumba. If you drop a hat,  she would start dancing.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508#t=4314.15,4318.64"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508/transcript/64967/annotation/755","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"She loved dances. If there was  a dance Monday to Friday, Saturday","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508#t=4318.64,4323.97"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508/transcript/64967/annotation/756","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"and Sunday, she'd go and she wanted me  to go and she's the one that taught","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508#t=4323.97,4329.44"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508/transcript/64967/annotation/757","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"me how to dance.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508#t=4329.44,4331.45"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508/transcript/64967/annotation/758","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"In fact, we won a contest, a dancing contest. 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I gave it away [to the fuzz], of course, at the- at the Pan American Ballroom.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508#t=4337.25,4344.56"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508/transcript/64967/annotation/760","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"But anyway, we, I had [hera with my girlfriend], but all she wanted to do was go","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508#t=4344.56,4350.78"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508/transcript/64967/annotation/761","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"to dances and I got tired of that. I wanted a girl to go to a baseball game, to go to","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508#t=4350.78,4355.76"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508/transcript/64967/annotation/762","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"church, to go to the ice rink.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508#t=4355.76,4359.39"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508/transcript/64967/annotation/763","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Things like that, go to the park, but she was not like that, she was a dancer. 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You know, I always","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508#t=4374.15,4380.06"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508/transcript/64967/annotation/767","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"wanted a nice girl like the one mamma had been.  My daddy told me, \"Find you a woman","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508#t=4380.06,4385.96"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508/transcript/64967/annotation/768","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"that has the ability to cry. You find a woman that never cries. You got yourself problem","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508#t=4385.96,4392.69"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508/transcript/64967/annotation/769","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"like your, well, you're a tender hearted person.\"  So there I was, waiting for the bus","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508#t=4392.69,4399.25"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508/transcript/64967/annotation/770","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"to come go to town. And I had never went on  late and I caught my wife waiting for the bus too.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508#t=4399.25,4408.06"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508/transcript/64967/annotation/771","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"And so what happened was I was the first one to get on the bus.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508#t=4408.06,4412.84"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508/transcript/64967/annotation/772","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"And at the time, the women were trying to  emerge, be equal, you know, but, be equal to","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508#t=4412.84,4418.11"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508/transcript/64967/annotation/773","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"the men. So I saw the seat, the only remaining on the bus, and I found it and I","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508#t=4418.11,4423.41"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508/transcript/64967/annotation/774","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"sat down and I look up at that- that women that was around with my wife. And they were","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508#t=4423.41,4429.39"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508/transcript/64967/annotation/775","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"looking for somebody to get up and give it  to them, I said I ain't budging. 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And so I'm sitting there on the bus and my wife's","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508#t=4438.99,4443.72"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508/transcript/64967/annotation/778","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"hanging by one of these straps. And the bus  starting to move and- and we made a turn","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508#t=4443.72,4449.25"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508/transcript/64967/annotation/779","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"there,[going 17] and she almost fell down, you know? And I felt sorry for her by then","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508#t=4449.25,4454.98"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508/transcript/64967/annotation/780","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"and now since I got up and I said, \"Look you  can have my seat.\" She said, \"I don't want it","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508#t=4454.98,4461.85"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508/transcript/64967/annotation/781","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"because you could have gave it to me in the first place. So now you keep your seat.\" And","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508#t=4461.85,4466.8"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508/transcript/64967/annotation/782","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I said, \"Frances,\" actually I didn't know  her name. I said, \"Well in that case, I don't","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508#t=4466.8,4471.39"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508/transcript/64967/annotation/783","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"want it either.\" And another lady was gonna  beat her to it. But then Frances acted","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508#t=4471.39,4476.22"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508/transcript/64967/annotation/784","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"quickly, she [was nearer to it].  She sat down. Then I looked down there,","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508#t=4476.22,4480.6"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508/transcript/64967/annotation/785","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\"I thought you, you didn't want the seat.\"  I didn't know her name, and she said,","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508#t=4480.6,4485.52"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508/transcript/64967/annotation/786","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\"Well, it's a woman's prerogative  to change her mind\" I said,","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508#t=4485.52,4488.44"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508/transcript/64967/annotation/787","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\"Well, I guess so.\" And we start looking at  each other. 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But she looked young enough for me to- to","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508#t=4495.06,4502.53"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508/transcript/64967/annotation/789","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"socialize with, and I- I was mature enough to, I had got by going to the dances, going","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508#t=4502.53,4508.76"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508/transcript/64967/annotation/790","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"out with those, I had about three or four girls, one from Monterrey, one, that they all","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508#t=4508.76,4513.8"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508/transcript/64967/annotation/791","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"wanted to get, you know, married to me, but I didn't feel with 'em. 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Can I walk with you to-  to the back?\" [Yet], but I said, \"If your","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508#t=4526.64,4532.63"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508/transcript/64967/annotation/794","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"boyfriend's gonna get mad, I better  not do that.\" She says,","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508#t=4532.63,4536.94"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508/transcript/64967/annotation/795","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\"I don't have a boyfriend.  What about your girlfriend?\"","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508#t=4536.94,4540.16"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508/transcript/64967/annotation/796","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\"I don't have a girlfriend.\"  'Course I was lying then.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508#t=4540.16,4544.16"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508/transcript/64967/annotation/797","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"So anyway, I walked her to the next bus stop and she gave me her phone number, that's how we","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508#t=4544.16,4549.5"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508/transcript/64967/annotation/798","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"got, we got, I called her that night and  from there on out. 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We was walking","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508#t=4588.93,4593.22"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508/transcript/64967/annotation/805","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"home then. At that time, we, a lot of people walked a lot. So walking across the McKee","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508#t=4593.22,4599.52"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508/transcript/64967/annotation/806","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Street bridge and I'm with Frances.  [Under clear blue sky], I tell Frances,","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508#t=4599.52,4605.32"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508/transcript/64967/annotation/807","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"my wife, my future wife, \"Frances,  you know what, I've been thinking.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508#t=4605.32,4610.81"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508/transcript/64967/annotation/808","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I'm not yet ready to settle down. I was thinking about that other girl that I, [it's","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508#t=4610.81,4614.48"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508/transcript/64967/annotation/809","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"just], you know, I don't know yet what I want and- and it's- it's not right, fair for me to","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508#t=4614.48,4623.09"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508/transcript/64967/annotation/810","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"tell you, we're gonna keep this up because, you know, things might happen. And I don't- I","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508#t=4623.09,4629.03"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508/transcript/64967/annotation/811","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"don't think I'm ready to settle down yet. Maybe [we should cool it] for another year","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508#t=4629.03,4634.76"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508/transcript/64967/annotation/812","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"or two, something like that.\"  And boy, she began to cry.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508#t=4634.76,4640.76"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508/transcript/64967/annotation/813","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"She was already old enough that she was losing interest in pursuing the marriage.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508#t=4640.76,4647.59"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508/transcript/64967/annotation/814","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"She wasn't the first to say, \"Well, I'm  gonna go to California and find a job there.\"","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508#t=4647.59,4653.03"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508/transcript/64967/annotation/815","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"And that- that was a trend, then, when you couldn't make it here, you go to","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508#t=4653.03,4655.82"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508/transcript/64967/annotation/816","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Los Angeles to look for a job. 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Right then and there, I reversed myself.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508#t=4684.13,4690.33"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508/transcript/64967/annotation/822","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I said, \"Frances, I'm sorry.\"  I kneeled down, right there in","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508#t=4690.33,4694.87"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508/transcript/64967/annotation/823","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"the middle of the McKee Street bridge.  And she- she forgave me and ever","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508#t=4694.87,4702.56"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508/transcript/64967/annotation/824","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"since that happened, we together sixty five years, married. Have two wonderful kids,","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508#t=4702.56,4710.0"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508/transcript/64967/annotation/825","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"wonderful. My girl is a lawyer,  over in Austin.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508#t=4710.0,4716.13"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508/transcript/64967/annotation/826","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"She's a defense lawyer, she [takes the right and the wrong].","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508#t=4716.13,4722.05"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508/transcript/64967/annotation/827","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"And then, you know, I tell her look, \"Tracy,\" and her boyfriend is a- is a- is a","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508#t=4722.05,4727.21"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508/transcript/64967/annotation/828","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"prosecutor, that's how they met. She's a  lawyer, she's been all over the world.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508#t=4727.21,4733.54"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508/transcript/64967/annotation/829","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"She called me one day and I got the phone,  \"Where was you said?\", Madagascar. You know","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508#t=4733.54,4740.76"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508/transcript/64967/annotation/830","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"what Madagascar's at, on the eastern, on the eastern part of France, souther- I mean,","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508#t=4740.76,4748.53"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508/transcript/64967/annotation/831","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Africa way out there, and island. Then she  called me from the Greek islands. And she","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508#t=4748.53,4754.83"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508/transcript/64967/annotation/832","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"called me from the Hamptons in New York.  You know where the Hamptons are?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508#t=4754.83,4761.06"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508/transcript/64967/annotation/833","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"She's been all over the world. And I said,  \"Tracy, I hope you, you find you,\"","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508#t=4761.06,4769.91"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508/transcript/64967/annotation/834","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"she's my love of my life.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508#t=4769.91,4771.77"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508/transcript/64967/annotation/835","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"And my- my son, Edward who, that's my son  Jesse, they're both petroleum engineers.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508#t=4771.77,4779.52"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508/transcript/64967/annotation/836","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"And Jesse's, Edward.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508#t=4779.52,4783.57"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508/transcript/64967/annotation/837","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"You know, I learned stuff in the army, and   then when I was the army, about the Mexican","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508#t=4783.57,4788.82"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508/transcript/64967/annotation/838","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Americans and our place in the world.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508#t=4788.82,4795.07"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508/transcript/64967/annotation/839","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I went to an Italian wedding in Fresno, California.  This lady invited me, I was a soldier","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508#t=4795.07,4803.32"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508/transcript/64967/annotation/840","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"and we went to the dance at the- at the Church community hall. And when the","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508#t=4803.32,4809.72"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508/transcript/64967/annotation/841","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"ceremony was going on, Uncle Tito gets up and he says, \"I've got a $200 here for the bride","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508#t=4809.72,4817.92"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508/transcript/64967/annotation/842","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"and groom for their honeymoon.\" Uncle  Sylvester said, \"Well, I'm not gonna be","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508#t=4817.92,4823.95"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508/transcript/64967/annotation/843","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"outdone, I've got a $400 here.\" And they, all the uncles, come up with hundreds of","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508#t=4823.95,4831.89"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508/transcript/64967/annotation/844","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"dollar bills, hundreds. They had enough to buy a little home. It's a stake in the back","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508#t=4831.89,4837.4"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508/transcript/64967/annotation/845","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"of my mind. Well, years went by, we had a family, we had two kids.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508#t=4837.4,4844.22"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508/transcript/64967/annotation/846","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"My wife got retired from police.  She got $65,000 cash.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508#t=4844.22,4849.89"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508/transcript/64967/annotation/847","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I got some checks coming in and [...] we had about maybe $80, $90, $100,000. I said,","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508#t=4849.89,4857.17"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508/transcript/64967/annotation/848","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\"Frances,\" I set my kids down there and I told 'em a story. If you go to a Mexican","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508#t=4857.17,4864.33"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508/transcript/64967/annotation/849","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"wedding, they have 15 padrinos.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508#t=4864.33,4868.97"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508/transcript/64967/annotation/850","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"One of 'em for the flowers, another for the  chef, band, the other one for the cushion,","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508#t=4868.97,4873.44"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508/transcript/64967/annotation/851","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"the other one for this. They all paid  for the hall. They're all, and then","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508#t=4873.44,4878.51"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508/transcript/64967/annotation/852","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"when they get- get, they- they- they  rent an orchestra and they have this food.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508#t=4878.51,4883.58"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508/transcript/64967/annotation/853","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"And then when you talk to the people,  I didn't like the band, it was too loud.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508#t=4883.58,4888.77"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508/transcript/64967/annotation/854","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I didn't like the food myself. They don't  contribute nothing to each other.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508#t=4888.77,4894.65"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508/transcript/64967/annotation/855","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"And, you know, what it's the  mentality to make it. 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They never are together.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508#t=4911.51,4915.2"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508/transcript/64967/annotation/860","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"People, the Jewish people,  [if the Jew come] in from Germany,","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508#t=4915.2,4918.82"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508/transcript/64967/annotation/861","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"they all pitch in to buy them a business.  The Italians help each other.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508#t=4918.82,4924.83"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508/transcript/64967/annotation/862","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"And I told Frances, \"Now you're with me or we're gonna wait till we die and leave all","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508#t=4924.83,4930.36"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508/transcript/64967/annotation/863","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"this for our kids? Let's get 'em together.\"","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508#t=4930.36,4933.09"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508/transcript/64967/annotation/864","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"We got 'em together. \"Edward, you and  Jesse, we're gonna buy a little home","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508#t=4933.09,4937.77"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508/transcript/64967/annotation/865","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"in this community each for y'all.  You pay for that house. 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He makes money.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508#t=4956.38,4963.97"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508/transcript/64967/annotation/870","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"[He brought he worth] a thousand dollars each. Rent it. Leases.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508#t=4963.97,4969.53"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508/transcript/64967/annotation/871","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"He got 10, 11 houses. He owned a property  across the street, he just sold it for","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508#t=4969.53,4974.76"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508/transcript/64967/annotation/872","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"$200,000. And I mean, this is what happens when you help each other out.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508#t=4974.76,4981.59"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508/transcript/64967/annotation/873","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"And that's what I used to preach  all the time. I learned that- that","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508#t=4981.59,4985.88"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508/transcript/64967/annotation/874","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"we and Mexican Americans need  to help each other out, not to","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508#t=4985.88,4990.2"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508/transcript/64967/annotation/875","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"be always you know. Then finally,  I wanted to tell you this that happened to me?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508#t=4990.2,4997.29"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508/transcript/64967/annotation/876","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I went to, there was a social meeting,  there was, let's see Randy Muniz was","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508#t=4997.29,5007.58"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508/transcript/64967/annotation/877","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"the leader in the Communist-led party,  political party here in Texas, and they,","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508#t=5007.58,5013.42"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508/transcript/64967/annotation/878","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"and he claimed that they was, we were  gonna get a governor in the state","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508#t=5013.42,5018.1"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508/transcript/64967/annotation/879","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"of Texas in Austin of Hispanic. And so he was gonna start a third party Latin American","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508#t=5018.1,5027.73"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508/transcript/64967/annotation/880","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"political party here in Texas. And then to  Saint Thomas, he's gonna have a rally.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508#t=5027.73,5032.56"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508/transcript/64967/annotation/881","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"So anybody wanna talk, come over and talk.  So I decided to go. And I went and everybody","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508#t=5032.56,5039.03"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508/transcript/64967/annotation/882","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"was talking about the possibility of creating a third political party to fight the Democrats","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508#t=5039.03,5046.89"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508/transcript/64967/annotation/883","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"and Republicans. So finally, I listened.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508#t=5046.89,5050.66"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508/transcript/64967/annotation/884","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Yes sir, you're talking about La Raza Unida Party.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508#t=5050.66,5052.64"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508/transcript/64967/annotation/885","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Yeah.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508#t=5052.64,5053.28"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508/transcript/64967/annotation/886","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Let's, let's hold off on that for a moment, OK?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508#t=5053.28,5056.0"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508/transcript/64967/annotation/887","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Yeah.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508#t=5056.0,5056.18"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508/transcript/64967/annotation/888","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"What I want to do now is I want to take a moment and break in the interview so we can","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508#t=5056.18,5060.14"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508/transcript/64967/annotation/889","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"all stretch our legs. How does that sound?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508#t=5060.14,5062.03"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508/transcript/64967/annotation/890","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Ok?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508#t=5062.03,5062.45"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508/transcript/64967/annotation/891","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Ok.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508#t=5062.45,5062.68"}]},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508/transcript/64967","type":"AnnotationPage","label":{"en":["English [Transcript]"]},"items":[{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2453/collection_resources/109065/file/210508/transcript/64967/annotation/892","type":"Annotation","motivation":"subtitling","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"https://d9jk7wjtjpu5g.cloudfront.net/file_transcripts/associated_files/000/064/967/original/transcript_1708714123.vtt20240223-673661-4g33eh.vtt?1708696124","format":"text/vtt","language":"en"},"target":"https://d9jk7wjtjpu5g.cloudfront.net/file_transcripts/associated_files/000/064/967/original/transcript_1708714123.vtt20240223-673661-4g33eh.vtt?1708696124"}]}]}]}