[News Script: Condemned negro baptised in jail]

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Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the baptism of Willie Lee Gage, a convicted rapist awaiting execution at the Tarrant County jail. Gage is baptized into the Pentecostal Church a month before he is scheduled to die in the electric chair at Huntsville Prison.

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1 p. ; 28 cm.

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WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.) February 4, 1954.

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Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the baptism of Willie Lee Gage, a convicted rapist awaiting execution at the Tarrant County jail. Gage is baptized into the Pentecostal Church a month before he is scheduled to die in the electric chair at Huntsville Prison.

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1 p. ; 28 cm.

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WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.). [News Script: Condemned negro baptised in jail], item, February 4, 1954; (digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc726386/: accessed May 22, 2018), University of North Texas Libraries, Digital Library, digital.library.unt.edu; crediting UNT Libraries Special Collections.