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[News Script: Mass Murder Case]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story of Harris County grand jurors who are expected to get their first official look at the evidence of the worst recorded mass murder case in history of United States.
Date: August 14, 1973, 6:30 a.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Body]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story. Texas law officers exhumed two corpses today near High Island, bringing to 23 and says that victims found as part of what authorities called a homosexual ring which may have killed 27 teenage youths. Henley was named in three counts of murder with bond of $1000,000 set on each complaint.
Date: August 10, 1973, 6:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
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Colonization of the East Texas Timber Region Before 1848

Description: For many years adventurers from Spain and France had explored Texas. For about fifty years Spain had tried to civilize and Christianize the Indians in East Texas. Finally the Spanish government had abolished the missions and presidios. During the following fifty years, very little had been done toward colonization in Texas. In 1821, Texas was an almost uninhabited country, with the exception of savage Indians. The Anglo-Americans came and changed it into a great state. The East Texas Timber Reg… more
Date: August 1939
Creator: Baker, Willie Gene
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[News Script: Mass Slayings]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story of San Augustine County sheriff's deputies who have uncovered more evidence in the mass murder of Houston youths.
Date: August 14, 1973, 8:25 a.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Houston Murders]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story of four more bodies which were recovered from their sand graves on the Texas Gulf Coast, bringing to 27 the number of dead in the Houston horror story.
Date: August 13, 1973, 10:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Murders]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story. Murder charges will be filed against Henley, Elmer Wayne and his 18-year-old companion after Henley showed them two more graves and officers now anticipate to find a total of 27 bodies.
Date: August 10, 1973, 12:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Murder Charges]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story of additional murder charges which were filed against Elmer Henley and David Brooks in connection with the Houston mass murder case.
Date: August 24, 1973, 6:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[San Augustine County CH - San Augustine]

Description: Photograph of San Augustine County CH - San Augustine. A yellow and green lawn surrounds the courthouse along with a line of shrubs and a handful of trees, with a tall stone slab sitting on a base in the lawn. The stone has some readable text including "In memory of those who lost their lives", "Killed in action", and "Killed in service", likely indicating it's a memorial. A sidewalk cuts through the lawn from the left side of the photo and leads up to the front doors of the courthouse. The doo… more
Date: August 1970
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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