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[News Script: Hoxsey]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the FDA's warning against the Hoxsey clinic in Dallas, which purported to cure cancer.
Date: April 4, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Doctors see surgery on color television]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the introduction of color television cameras to the operating room at Parkland Memorial Hospital in Dallas, with surgeries broadcast to doctors attending a medical conference in the city.
Date: March 12, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Girl is Flown to Galveston Hospital]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about Alice Oller, a nine-year-old mentally handicapped girl who was abandoned with her little sister at a Fort Worth railroad station by their mother. After being taken in by the Lena Pope Home, Alice set herself on fire, believing that no one cared about her. She is being flown to Galveston to receive treatment for her burns.
Date: February 23, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Shoemake]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about A.B. Shoemake, the former head of the U.S. Trust and Guaranty Company, giving newsmen his first interview since he shot himself in the head the previous year.
Date: April 27, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Polio patient to graduate]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a North Dallas High School student, Beth Bowman, celebrating her graduation despite suffering from polio.
Date: May 27, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Children examined at annual clinic]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about an annual medical clinic held by a physician's organization in Tarrant County, offering inexpensive physical examinations to children.
Date: March 16, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Veteran Ennis doctor honored]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about 78-year-old Ennis doctor Dr. A.L. Thomas being named General Practitioner of the Year by the Texas Medical Association. Thomas had been practicing medicine for 51 years.
Date: May 6, 1954
Duration: 1 minute 07 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Dallas kids get last polio shots]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about a group of Dallas schoolchildren receiving their third and final polio vaccine.
Date: June 9, 1954
Duration: 1 minute 04 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Seven men doctor one little snake]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about medical treatment for an ailing python at Fort Worth's Forest Park Zoo.
Date: August 12, 1954
Duration: 46 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Poisoning]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a Grand Prairie woman attempting to kill herself and murder her three children with sleeping pills.
Date: November 12, 1959
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Blood]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a blood drive at Hensley field.
Date: November 14, 1959
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Iron lung kid]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a polio-stricken 9-year-old Arlington boy being transported home in an iron lung after a 10-month hospital stay.
Date: October 5, 1959
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Mental case]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a Fort Worth man being taken to a mental institution after being imprisoned in his parents' home for 17 years.
Date: July 6, 1959
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Hearing aid]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a local organization helping to purchase a hearing aid for a Fort Worth first grader.
Date: November 5, 1959
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Blood center]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the new Carter Blood Center in Fort Worth.
Date: December 6, 1959
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Polio patient to graduate]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV television station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story about a North Dallas High School student, Beth Bowman, celebrating her graduation despite suffering from polio.
Date: May 27, 1956
Duration: 1 minute 18 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: New bus]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about experimental passenger buses undergoing testing in Dallas that can be converted into large ambulances or cargo haulers in wartime.
Date: July 12, 1951
Duration: 1 minute 21 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Highway helpers]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the Fort Worth Red Cross commissioning trained first aid instructors to drive to the scene of traffic accidents in the region, in order to quickly provide aid.
Date: July 11, 1951
Duration: 1 minute 15 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Miss Curity contest window display]

Description: Photograph of a Curity window display in the WBAP lobby. The display has signs that are advertising the Miss Curity contest which asks people to send in photographs of their daughters dressed like Miss Curity. The signs say that the contest is giving away "$25,000 in prizes cash and valuable Eastman Cameras" and it has a grand prize of a $5,000 bond. The sign on the right of the display reads "for Details of Bauer & Black's "Miss Curity Contest" see Super Circus Saturday's 6:30 P.M. WBAP-TV Cha… more
Date: July 12, 1951
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Glyco mist products]

Description: Photograph of a container of Glyco mist against a plain wall. The label on the container reads "an aid in the prevention of the spread of infection."
Date: February 28, 1951
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Featuring Glyco mist products]

Description: Photograph of a container of Glyco mist against a plain backdrop. The label on the container reads, "an aid in the prevention of the spread of infection."
Date: February 28, 1951
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Nurse bandaging Margaret McDonald's wrist]

Description: Photograph of a nurse demonstrating how to bandage a wrist with Margaret McDonald. The two women are sitting at a table in front of a floral pattern curtain. There are three bottles and a fake plant on the table. The nurse is wearing a a nurse's cap and a pinafore over a pilgrim collar shirt. McDonald is wearing a polka dot dress and dark jewelry. The women are facing each other and the nurse is holding McDonald's wrist in her hand as she wraps it with gauze.
Date: May 22, 1951
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Glyco mist advertising]

Description: Photograph of a container of Glyco mist against a plain wall. The label on the container reads "an aid in the prevention of the spread of infection."
Date: February 28, 1951
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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