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A Good Tale and a Bonnie Tune

Description: Volume of miscellaneous folklore about Texas and Mexico, including Mexican folktales, Texas folk songs, information about Texas streams and information about racial discrimination in the South. The index begins on page 273.
Date: 1964
Creator: Texas Folklore Society
Partner: UNT Press
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Tire Shrinker to Dragster

Description: Collection of Texas, Jamaican and Irish folklore, including stories about drag racing, treasure hunting, frontier preachers, Irish storytellers, mock bidding in Jamaica, and more. The index begins on page 247.
Date: 1968
Creator: Hudson, Wilson M.
Partner: UNT Press
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Singers and Storytellers

Description: Collection of popular folklore of Texas, including personal anecdotes about storytellers and singers, as well as folk songs, myths, and ghost stories. The index begins on page 295.
Date: 1961
Creator: Boatright, Mody C.
Partner: UNT Press
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[News Script: Plane crash]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about two men from San Antonio, who die due to a plane crash. The plane took a sudden nose dive and crashed. As a result, the plane erupted into flames.
Date: January 2, 1960
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Gamble Benedict]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about New York heiress Gamble Benedict and her husband going back to New York from San Antonio after their honeymoon ended.
Date: April 20, 1960
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Pickets]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a restaurant in San Antonio refusing service to African-Americans.
Date: April 24, 1960
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Lunch counter]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about San Antonio businesses beginning to open integrated lunch counters.
Date: March 16, 1960
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Nuns run farm]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the Cordi-Marian Villa convent and farm located west of San Antonio, Texas.
Date: October 9, 1960
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Fire deaths]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a family of three being found dead from gunshot wounds in their burnt farmhouse.
Date: October 10, 1960
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Flight]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a flight simulator at Brooks Air Force Base in San Antonio, Texas.
Date: January 14, 1961
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Politics]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a meeting of the Texas AFL-CIO's committee on political education in San Antonio.
Date: July 17, 1962
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: San Antone blast]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about explosives that blew up at the Atomic Energy Commission's top secret Medina Base Facility in San Antonio.
Date: November 13, 1963
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Glenn quits race]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about former astronaut John Glenn withdrawing from the Ohio senatorial race due to an ear ailment caused by a fall.
Date: March 30, 1964
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Gonzales]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about Congressman Gonzales of San Antonio who is unhappy about threats he receives from hate groups due to his liberal stance, Gonzales asks for a government investigation of a publication that carries a strong threat against Gonzales and other congressmen.
Date: January 17, 1964
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Belli]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about Melvin Belli, Jack Ruby's defense attorney who is leaving on a trip to Mexico after his remarks against Dallas left his standing with the American Bar Association in danger.
Date: March 18, 1964
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Space capsule]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a space capsule that four men were in for 42 days.
Date: December 16, 1963
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: JFK in San Antonio]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about President Kennedy's first stops on his trip to Texas.
Date: November 21, 1963
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Battle of flowers]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the Battle of Flowers parade in San Antonio, where two-hundred and fifty thousand people gathered for the week-long Fiesta San Antonio celebration.
Date: April 27, 1963
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Ashley escape]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the escape of Leslie Douglas Ashley, from the state hospital in San Antonio; Female impersonator Ashley and Carolyn Ann Lima were originally sentenced to death for the torch murder of a man, the convictions reversed, Ms. Lima given 5 years in prison and Ashley judged insane.
Date: October 8, 1964
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Goldwater]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about Senator Barry Goldwater stopping in San Antonio to give a campaign speech while en-route to South Carolina.
Date: October 31, 1964
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Flood]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a city that is recovering from a flash flood.
Date: September 27, 1964
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Herrington]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the manslaughter trial of a Colonel in San Antonio.
Date: December 6, 1962
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Parachute Flight]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about Tony Burnett of the Lone Star sky-diving club showing his latest invention, a flying rig called the para-kite.
Date: January 9, 1963
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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