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[News Script: Snakes]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about Fort Worth's Pete the Python receiving two snake companions: an anaconda and a boa constrictor.
Date: April 17, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Pete is gone]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the death of Fort Worth Zoo's Pete the Python.
Date: February 23, 1958
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Pete]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about Fort Worth's Pete the Python being treated for malnutrition after laying a clutch of eggs.
Date: February 19, 1958
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Crowds welcome prodigal Pete]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the recapture of Pete the Python, a famous escaped snake from Fort Worth's Forest Park Zoo.
Date: October 3, 1954
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Pete's remains]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the remains of Pete the Python going on display at TCU.
Date: April 25, 1958
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Pete the Python]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about Pete the Python undergoing minor surgery to remove a tick from a sensory pit on his nose.
Date: August 11, 1957
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Snakes]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about Harry Jackson introducing king cobras to the Forest Park Zoo in Fort Worth.
Date: June 7, 1958
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Python]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the deceased Pete the Python being stuffed by a local taxidermist.
Date: February 24, 1958
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Crowds welcome prodigal Pete]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV television station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story about the recapture of Pete the Python, a famous escaped snake from Fort Worth's Forest Park Zoo.
Date: October 3, 1954
Duration: 2 minutes 22 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Snakes]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about Fort Worth's Pete the Python receiving two snake companions: an anaconda and a boa constrictor.
Date: April 17, 1956
Duration: 1 minute 57 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Latest hunt for Pete peters out]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV television station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story about a python named Pete, that is still missing from the Forest Park zoo in Fort Worth.
Date: October 1, 1954
Duration: 28 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Insurance]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, revisiting the year's major local news stories, including a scandal over lax enforcement of insurance law in the state, along with the escape and recapture of a python at Fort Worth's Forest Park Zoo.
Date: December 31, 1954
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Pete gets set for first day of spring]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about Fort Worth's Forest Park Zoo's Pete the Python being prepared for spring season at the zoo.
Date: March 19, 1957
Duration: 1 minute 38 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Pete back in new, moves to new home]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about Pete the Python at Fort Worth's Forest Park Zoo moving into a new enclosure.
Date: March 23, 1956
Duration: 1 minute 29 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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