[News Script: Tape pals]

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Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a tape recorder purchased in 1952 thst grew into a world wide organization called World Tape Pals. Mr. and Mrs. Harry Matthews bought the tape recorder so they could send tapes to their son Walter who was in the armed forces in Korea. The first tape made such a big hit that Matthews decided to send tapes to strangers in foreign countries, which then prompted others to do the same. World Tape Pals has grown to 3500 members in 65 countries.

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2 p. ; 28 cm.

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WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.) August 18, 1958.

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This script is part of the collection entitled: KXAS-NBC 5 News Collection and was provided by the UNT Libraries Special Collections to the UNT Digital Library, a digital repository hosted by the UNT Libraries. It has been viewed 116 times. More information about this script can be viewed below.

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Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a tape recorder purchased in 1952 thst grew into a world wide organization called World Tape Pals. Mr. and Mrs. Harry Matthews bought the tape recorder so they could send tapes to their son Walter who was in the armed forces in Korea. The first tape made such a big hit that Matthews decided to send tapes to strangers in foreign countries, which then prompted others to do the same. World Tape Pals has grown to 3500 members in 65 countries.

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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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Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about a tape recorder purchased in 1952 that grew into a world wide organization called World Tape Pals. Mr. and Mrs. Harry Matthews bought the tape recorder so they could send tapes to their son Walter who was in the armed forces in Korea. The first tape made such a big hit that Matthews decided to send tapes to strangers in foreign countries, which then prompted others to do the same. World Tape Pals has grown to 3500 members in 65 countries.

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  • August 18, 1958

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  • Aug. 18, 2023, 5:34 p.m.

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WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.). [News Script: Tape pals], script, August 18, 1958; (https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc852281/: accessed January 23, 2025), University of North Texas Libraries, UNT Digital Library, https://digital.library.unt.edu; crediting UNT Libraries Special Collections.

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