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Oral History Interview with Ike Walker, September 16, 1981

Description: Transcript of an interview with Ike Walker, one of the founders of Bomber Bait Company in Gainesville, Texas. Walker discusses his family background, his employment as a gasoline retailer and tire repair operator, and his interest in designing fish baits that led to the development of the Bomber Bait Company with Clarence Turbeville in 1945.
Date: September 16, 1981
Creator: Jenkins, Floyd & Walker, Ike
Partner: UNT Oral History Program
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[News Clip: Tree-Watering Device, Student Pilot Dies When Plane Crashes, News Briefs -- Patty, Pumpers Won't Drink Dallas Tap Water, Sonny Evans, Democrats, Gorilla]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story about a homemade tree-saving device, created by Fort Worth police detective T. M. Wood; Captain Charles Walker, a student pilot from Perrin Air Force Base, who crashed his T-33 jet training plane and died; the brief appearance of singer Patty Page in Dallas, Texas, en route to marry movie director Charles O'Curran; the salty drinking water in Dallas, which comes from the Red River; the arrest of teenager Sonn… more
Date: September 7, 1956
Duration: 10 minutes 59 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Cooke County Courthouse in Gainesville, TX]

Description: Photograph of Cooke County Courthouse in Gainesville, TX. The courthouse is mostly rectangular in shape with a section of the building projecting outwards from the rest, on the side facing the camera. The building is made of white stone and pale orange bricks, with the bottom two floors built entirely from stone bricks while the upper two floors consist of bricks accented and decorated with stone. Each of the four floors of the courthouse have a row of windows across their widths. On the left s… more
Date: September 1968
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Lumber company locations]

Description: Photograph of two slides advertising lumber companies. The slides are pinned to a black board that is hanging on the wall and they are both turned on their side and facing the same direction. The slide on the left has a white background and there is text on it that reads "J.C. Wooldridge Lumber Co. Broadway & Dickinson Gainesville, Texas". The slide on the right also has a white background and has text on it that reads "Sims Lumber Co. 302 S. E. 3rd Mineral Wells, Texas". There are two transpar… more
Date: September 30, 1959
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Quake Here]

Description: Video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story.
Date: September 20, 1985, 6:00 p.m.
Duration: 1 minute 44 seconds
Creator: KXAS-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Medders]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story.
Date: September 16, 1969, 10:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Anderson trial]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a day in the murder trial of Jerry Don Anderson.
Date: September 9, 1963
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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