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[News Script: Malloy leaves to start prison term]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the transfer of convicted murderer Carl George Malloy from Tarrant County Jail to Huntsville State Prison. Malloy was found guilty of murdering his infant son and sentenced to 99 years in prison.
Date: January 19, 1955
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Convicts give up, return to cells]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the end of a strike by inmates at Huntsville State Prison after officials refuse to feed them three meals a day instead of only two.
Date: April 14, 1955
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Mrs. Doswell is taken to prison]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the departure of Mrs. Rebecca Doswell from Dallas County Jail to Huntsville Prison after being sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder of her husband.
Date: May 24, 1953
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Riding is rough at prison rodeo]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about an annual rodeo for inmates at Huntsville Prison.
Date: October 14, 1953
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Dallas man hears death sentence]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a Dallas man sentenced to death for the violent sexual assault of a child near White Rock Lake.
Date: March 24, 1954
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Sam's house]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the home of General Sam Houston deteriorating due to thousands of people visiting the home annually and little money from the state being appropriated for its upkeep.
Date: January 15, 1954
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Schoolboy gridders flying to Alaska]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the Hornets football team of Huntsville High School traveling to Anchorage, Alaska, to play the city's high school football team.
Date: September 14, 1955
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Prison]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about grand juries from all around the state visiting the Huntsville Prison.
Date: June 13, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Prison strike]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about prisoners going on strike at Eastham prison farm north of Huntsville.
Date: May 28, 1958
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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