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[News Clip: Dallas Memorial Auditorium]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about people holding a memorial service at the Dallas Memorial Auditorium.
Date: March 3, 1958
Duration: 1 minute 10 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Flag]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about a group of youths hanging the Texas flag inside of a building.
Date: March 3, 1958
Duration: 59 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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Flag Protection: A Brief History and Summary of Recent Supreme Court Decisions and Proposed Constitutional Amendment

Description: This report gives a brief history of the flag protection issue, from the enactment of the Flag Protection Act in 1968 through current consideration of a constitutional amendment. A second part briefly summarizes the two decisions of the United States Supreme Court -- Texas v. Johnson and United States v. Eichman -- that struck down the state and federal flag protection statutes as applied in the context punishing expressive conduct.
Date: January 3, 2005
Creator: Luckey, John
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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