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Oral History Interview with Rufus Smith, June 13, 1989

Description: Interview with Rufus Smith, a Marine WWII veteran and POW from Hughes Springs, Texas, who survived the Palawan Massacre. Smith discusses joining the Marines, the bombing of Cavite Naval Yard, his capture at Corregidor and internment at Cabanatuan, transfer to Palawan and experiences in captivity there, the massacre and escaping, rescue by Filipinos and traveling with them, evacuation, returning to the United States, and life after the war.
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Date: June 13, 1989
Creator: Burlage, George & Smith, Rufus
Partner: UNT Oral History Program
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[News Clip: Atlanta politics]

Description: Video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story.
Date: March 12, 1984, 5:00 p.m.
Duration: 1 minute 45 seconds
Creator: KXAS-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Tower funeral]

Description: Photocopy of a script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story.
Date: December 23, 1970, 6:30 a.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: School]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story.
Date: January 13, 1972, 10:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Atlanta]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story.
Date: October 5, 1971, 10:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Atlanta discrimination dispute]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about the Atlanta Texas school board voting on an appeal of a government order that cut off the district's federal funds.
Date: January 12, 1972, 8:25 a.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Sports]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story.
Date: July 23, 1971, 6:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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The Golden Log

Description: Volume of popular Texas folklore, including information about unusual Texas place names, folktales about spiders, folktales about witchcraft, ghosts and superstitions, and information about early petroleum geologists. The index begins on page 167.
Date: 2017
Creator: Texas Folklore Society
Partner: UNT Press
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[News Script: Funeral]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story.
Date: February 3, 1973, 10:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Black Methodists]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story of Black Methodists around the country are now in Atlanta for National Consultation on the Black Church.
Date: December 12, 1973, 10:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Wheat]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about wheat farmers of Perryton say that about 2 million bushels of wheat they harvested is piled up around elevators awaiting shipment is in danger of being ruined.
Date: July 6, 1973, 10:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Spain]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about a word that members of an American scientific group who may have discovered the remains of the legendary lost continent of Atlantis.
Date: 1973-07-17T24:00:00
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Fire]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about Dallas fire department which spent a relatively calm day because of no major alarms occurred during morning.
Date: June 23, 1973, 10:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Cass County in Linden, TX]

Description: Photograph of Cass County Courthouse in Linden, TX. A "Keep to right" sign sits near the left edge of the photo in the foreground, beyond which are four cars parked across the image's width in front of a sidewalk lined with parking meters. The sidewalk runs in front of the green lawn which surrounds the courthouse and contains short bushes as well as a grey obelisk set atop a tall sloping base. The courthouse building itself is white with red tile roofing and white window frames. The entrance i… more
Date: June 1975
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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