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  • Series > Transcripts of Oral Histories Given to the Lyndon B. Johnson Library (remove)
  • Contributor > Deason, Willard, 1905-1997 (remove)

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Oral history transcript, Willard Deason, interview S-1, 8/14/1987, by Christie L. Bourgeois (Item)
  • . In giving this history of Wilson County to my niece, I pointed out that Charles Deason, my daddy's older brother, was quite a community leader. I guess today we would call him an activist but he was instrumental in getting the first rural telephone line
Oral history transcript, NYA Interview, group interview 1 (I), 1968, by William S. White (Item)
  • that matter :came up, atld he got on the telephone. He called the Pentagon, and he didn't 'ask them, he ordered them to send a plane and get that boy and bring him up here to Arlington National Cemetery and bury him with full military honors. And they did
Oral history transcript, Willard Deason, interview S-1b (I), 4/29/1986, by Walter Richter (Item)
  • order. D: Oh, well, that was a lot of fun. Horace and Whiteside always argued about who was number one and number two. I didn't know there was an argument about nine and ten. R: It's led a lot of conversation. Number eleven Harvey Payne, one of our