[News Script: Showman Park]

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Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the community of Farmer's Branch, opening the Don Showman Memorial Park, dedicated in honor of a Braniff Airways pilot and resident of Farmer's Branch before being killed in a plane crash 3 months prior. Showman was a passenger along with several other pilots aboard a Braniff DC-7 headed for Panama which crashed in a swamp just after taking off from the Miami, Florida airport on March 25th.

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2 p. ; 28 cm.

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WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.) June 21, 1958.

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This item is part of the collection entitled: KXAS-NBC 5 News Collection and was provided by UNT Libraries Special Collections to Digital Library, a digital repository hosted by the UNT Libraries. It has been viewed 22 times . More information about this item can be viewed below.

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Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the community of Farmer's Branch, opening the Don Showman Memorial Park, dedicated in honor of a Braniff Airways pilot and resident of Farmer's Branch before being killed in a plane crash 3 months prior. Showman was a passenger along with several other pilots aboard a Braniff DC-7 headed for Panama which crashed in a swamp just after taking off from the Miami, Florida airport on March 25th.

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2 p. ; 28 cm.

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  • Preferred Citation: NBC 5/KXAS News Scripts (AR0787), University of North Texas Special Collections

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  • June 21, 1958

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WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.). [News Script: Showman Park], item, June 21, 1958; (digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc852010/: accessed April 20, 2018), University of North Texas Libraries, Digital Library, digital.library.unt.edu; crediting UNT Libraries Special Collections.