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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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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.
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.