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Oral History Interview with Estel G. Burns, October 14, 2009

Description: Interview with Estel G. Burns, World War II veteran and B-17 pilot, as part of the Tarrant County War Veterans Project. The interview includes Burns' personal experiences of childhood and education in Missouri, farm life in the Great Depression, basic training, and training for aviation mechanics at Sheppard Field, Texas. Additionally, Burns talks about his family history, his 1942 enlistment in Army Air Corps, being accepted into pilot training, marriage to Dorothy Perrin, life at Deenethorpe … more
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Date: October 14, 2009
Creator: Hegi, Benjamin P. & Burns, Estel G.
Partner: UNT Oral History Program
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Geology of the Calamity Peak area, Custer County, South Dakota

Description: A report discussing and area of 2.5 square miles along the southwest border of the pre-Cambrian granitic rocks complex in the pre-Cambrian core of the Harney Peak region, Black Hills, South Dakota that was mapped to determine the relationship between the granite-pegmatite complex and the pegmatites containing beryl and other industrial minerals. This investigation was part of the U.S. Geological Surveys program for the investigation of domestic beryllium resources and was carried out on behalf … more
Date: January 14, 1955
Creator: Kupfer, Donald H.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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[News Script: Fifth summary]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating summaries about three different news stories. The following were detailed: Spending federal funding on mass transit, the occupation of Wounded Knee, and Juan Peron was to visit Argentina.
Date: March 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: Wounded Knee]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about Wounded Knee residents demanding federal authorities to end the confrontation.
Date: April 14, 1973
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Wounded Knee]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a chief negotiator returning to the Pine Ridge Reservation in Wounded Knee.
Date: April 14, 1973
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Wounded knee]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about a group of militant Indians and sympathizers who raided the wounded knee, south Dakota trading post and barricaded themselves in a nearby church.
Date: July 14, 1973, 10:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Wounded knee]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about Wounded Knee about the occupation of Wounded Knee. Tensions were easing as negotiations resumed between the Justice Department and the American Indian Movement.
Date: March 14, 1973, 12:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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