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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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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.
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 February 22, 2019),
University of North Texas Libraries, Digital Library, digital.library.unt.edu;
crediting UNT Libraries Special Collections.