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[News Script: Dog Bite Victim]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about locating a six year old boy named King Lear, who was bitten by a dog that was later determined to be rabid.
Date: August 20, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Rare English Dogs]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about toy Pekingese puppies imported into America by Jerelynn Atkinson.
Date: August 16, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Dogs]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the eighth annual Specialty Dog Show in Dallas. 566 dogs compete.
Date: November 18, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Stars visit Fort Worth]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about three Hollywood stars visiting Fort Worth to promote the film "Flight to Hong Kong." They are Rory Calhoun, Dolores Donlon, and Vic Orsatti.
Date: October 7, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Dogs]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a quarantine for dogs in Fort Worth. The quarantine is a result of an increase in rabies cases.
Date: July 31, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Ladies Jailed Over Dogs]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the arrest of two sisters, Beatrice and Katherine Hernandez, for violation of the city's sanitation ordinances. They were living in one room with five dogs and thirteen cats.
Date: October 11, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Poodle]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about several people contesting ownership of a poodle named Collette. It is determined that Toby Gilman of New York is the real owner.
Date: October 25, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Hagler]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about Mrs. Elisabeth Bergmann Hagler, wife of David Fred Hagler, key figure in an Oklahoma torch-murder. Mrs. Hagler divorces her husband in a short hearing at the Tarrant County Courthouse.
Date: July 24, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Council]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the Fort Worth city council discussing several issues. Included subjects are an ordinance against stray dogs, the discussion of a crime laboratory, and water rationing.
Date: July 11, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Hunt for wildcat nets stray dog]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about police looking for a wildcat that was lurking in a neighborhood. Two stray dogs helped the police in their search, but were ultimately sent to the pound due to Fort Worth's campaign against stray dogs.
Date: July 19, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Fort Worth starts stray dog roundup]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a campaign to collect stray dogs in Fort Worth after the city council ordered the enforcement of an ordinance stating that all dogs must be confined or on a leash. A young boy, Carl Don Tipton, is being treated for rabies after being scratched by a dog.
Date: July 19, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Rabies]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a rabies crackdown in Dallas after a three-year-old boy became inflicted with the disease after being bitten by dog. Around forty thousand dogs face extermination, and another thirty thousand face a one-hundred day quarantine.
Date: July 5, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Dogs]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a quarantine being put into effect for dogs in Dallas. The quarantine is a result of a rabies outbreak.
Date: July 9, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Dog graduates]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a graduation ceremony at a Fort Worth elementary school. A dog named Smokey, who escorts children to school from the Tarrant County Children's Home, also receives a diploma.
Date: May 30, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Jimmy Powell: Mountain Boy]

Description: Photograph of Jimmy Powell holding a large rifle with a dog along a fence line. In the image the boy is surveying the farmland in Cumberland Gap, Tennessee. Joe never had photographs of himself growing up in Tennessee. He returned many times to photograph Jimmy and create an "Autobiographical" series of what Joe recalled his life to be. Photo by: Joe Clark, HBSS. Clark PhotoFile: 7023-0058-33
Date: July 9, 1955
Creator: Clark, Joe
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Man with Dog]

Description: Photograph of a man with a dog standing by a wooden building, possibly in Lynchburg or Cumberland Gap, Tennessee during the 1950's. Trees and other foliage can be seen around the building.
Date: [1950..1959]
Creator: Clark, Joe
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Jimmy Powell with Old Tize]

Description: Photograph of Jimmy Powell with his arm around his dog Old Tize, in Cumberland Gap, Tennessee. In the image, Powell is sitting on the edge of a porch, smiling to something left of the camera. Photo by: Joe Clark, HBSS. Signed by: Joe Clark, HBSS Clark PhotoFile: 7023-0016-13
Date: 1955
Creator: Clark, Joe
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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