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[News Clip: Plane TN]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about a former Naval pilot, George Williams, attempting to circumnavigate the globe in 8 days.
Date: August 27, 1958
Duration: 1 minute 28 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
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[News Clip: Austin college football]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about the Austin College football team traveling to Mexico for a game against Mexico City University.
Date: October 12, 1955
Duration: 50 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
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[News Clip: Falcon Dam fills up]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about the Falcon Dam on the Rio Grande being finished.
Date: July 2, 1954
Duration: 2 minutes 10 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
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[News Clip: Flood]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about flooding in Laredo.
Date: June 30, 1954
Duration: 1 minute 47 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
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[News Clip: Mexican President]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about Mexico's President, Ruiz Cortines, paying a surprise visit to the flood-ravaged border.
Date: July 8, 1954
Duration: 56 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)

[Photograph of a street in Mexico]

Description: Photograph of an empty street in Mexico. A sign with the face of a man is posted on a wooden electrical pole. Two vehicles are parked on the left side of the street. At the end of the street, an individual stands outside a blue and white building with the words "El Frente" painted on front. Electrical wires stretch across the street.
Date: 1950
Creator: Williams, Byrd M. (Byrd Moore), III

[Photograph of a street in Mexico, 2]

Description: Photograph of a street corner in Mexico. At the end of the street is a blue and white multi-story building with wooden doors and wrought-iron details. There are three doorways on the ground floor and three open doors with balconies on the floor above them. The right-most bottom doorway appears to the storefront to a general store. "El Frente" is painted above its doors. There are Pepsi soda advertisements on either side of the doorway. Two girls in dresses and a child stand in the open doorway … more
Date: 1950
Creator: Williams, Byrd M. (Byrd Moore), III

[Photograph of an alley in Mexico]

Description: Photograph of an alley in Mexico. A multi-story building with wrought-iron balconies stands on the right. A woman in a white patterned dress stands in one of its open doorways with her back to the camera. Further down in the alley three other individuals are walking. There are some trees and two parked automobiles at the far end of the alley. Hazy mountains are visible in the distance.
Date: 1950
Creator: Williams, Byrd M. (Byrd Moore), III
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[News Script: Plane TN]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a former Naval pilot, George Williams, attempting to circumnavigate the globe in 8 days.
Date: August 27, 1958
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
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[News Script: Killers]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about Fort Worth police seeking an extradition for two men being held in a Tijuana jail who were also suspected of murdering a Fort Worth man during a robbery.
Date: January 9, 1957
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
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[News Script: Fort Worth girls in Tijuana]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about Patrician Ann Wilson and Gaylene Freeman waiting for their lovers, the murder suspects James Edward Davis and Billy Ray Clifton, to be freed from jail in Tijuana, Mexico.
Date: January 15, 1957
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
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[News Script: Mexican President]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about Mexico's President, Ruiz Cortines, paying a surprise visit to the flood-ravaged border.
Date: July 8, 1954
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
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[News Script: Builders welcomed]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about 20 nationally-recognized home builders winning a fishing trip to Mexico, sponsored by the Minneapolis-Honeywell Company.
Date: November 29, 1953
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
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[News Script: O'Dwyer and Medina Pause in Dallas]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the brief stop in Dallas by federal judge Harold Medina and former New York Mayor and Ambassador William O'Dwyer. Both are headed to El Paso, O'Dwyer is returning to Mexico while Medina is staying in El Paso to speak at the League of United Latin-American Citizens convention.
Date: June 21, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
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