Interview no. 181

Interviewee

S. L. A. Marshall

Interviewer

Richard Estrada

Biographical Synopsis of Interviewee

Military historian

Summary of Interview

Biography; encounters with Pancho Villa; Felipe Angeles and Jose Vasconcelos; Albert Bacon Fal l; Pershing Expedition; Columbus Rain; Ciudad Juárez in the teens and 1920's; effect of the railroad on El Paso; Zack Lamar Cobb; Zack White; prominent men in El Paso in l9l5; sentiment in El Paso toward the Mexican Revolution; Pascual Orozco; orientals and blacks in El Paso during the teens; crossing the international bridge; Emil Holmdahl; Sam Dreben; General Pershing; prejudice against Mexicans; the El Paso Herald Post vs. the El Paso Times; friendliness of El Paso; Chris P. Fox; returning to El Paso after World War I; newspaper work; Ku Klux Klan; the Depression; Copper baseball league; re-enlisting as a private in the National Guard; humor columnist; origin of nicknam "Slam"; Revindication Revolution; Prohibition; cultural advantages of El Paso; Lawson-Jackson fight; Tiger Flowers-Gorilla Jones fight; use of marijuana; prostitution in the 1920's; work with the Detroit News; World War II military broadcast column; trips to Mexico and conditions there; Sherwood Anderson; Ulises Irigoyen; L. M. Lawson; the United Nations; El Paso-Ciudad Juárez relations; Cedillo; oil expropriations; Josephus Daniels; Charles Lindberg; Francisco Mujica; Spanish Civil War; Ernest Hemingway

Date of Interview

7-1975

Length of Interview

5 ½ hours

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Tape Number

No. 181

Transcript Number

No. 181

Length of Transcript

141 pages

Date Transcribed

1975

Transcriber

Irma Hernándes and Rhonda Hartman

Interview Number

No. 181

Terms of Use

Unrestricted

Comments

See also: Interview nos. 11, 197

Recommended Citation

Interview with S. L. A. Marshall by Richard Estrada, 1975, "Interview no. 181," Institute of Oral History, University of Texas at El Paso.