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Betty McKnight Speairs
Has some mild memories of the Depression and of wartime in Dallas
http://www.oralhistory.ws/tpl/norton_audio.php?file=1f3c7696ae4240121b96102a57d6bd7e77baefa6.mp3
Like millions of others, December 7, 1941, the day Japanese forces attacked Pearl Harbor, is ingrained in the memory of Mrs. Speairs. She was then Betty McKnight, a teenager in her native Dallas, who learned about the world-changing event at church.