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[News Clip: 12 indicted for smuggling]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about 12 men being indicted for conspiring to smuggle firearms to Mexico.
Date: February 12, 1953
Duration: 2 minutes 34 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Goofballers]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about Dallas youths and one man arraigned as part of a case prosecuting a large ring of young people charged with forging prescriptions for Dexedrine pills, more commonly known as "goofballs."
Date: February 17, 1953
Duration: 49 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Child injured, mother is held]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a Fort Worth mother arrested after breaking her newborn infant's arm.
Date: February 11, 1953
Duration: 1 minute 14 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: New judge]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the swearing-in ceremony of new Dallas Criminal District Judge Harold B. Wright.
Date: February 3, 1953
Duration: 38 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Trial of Dallas cop postponed]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about Robert L. Gurley, a suspended police lieutenant, appearing on trial for four theft indictments, and having the trial postponed.
Date: July 21, 1953
Duration: 1 minute 38 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Andrews Tax Man]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a visit to Dallas by U.S. Internal Revenue Service Chief T. Coleman Andrews to deliver an address to a group of financial services workers.
Date: December 15, 1953
Duration: 2 minutes 59 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Daws Charged in Shepps Burglary]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a Dallas man, R.G. Shaws, charged with burglary after allegedly breaking into an area grocery store.
Date: August 6, 1953
Duration: 1 minute 30 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Court]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV television station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story.
Date: August 24, 1953
Duration: 1 minute
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Thugs]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about four men charged in Fort Worth with abducting and beating a hospital patient for unknown reasons.
Date: August 26, 1953
Duration: 1 minute 08 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Grain Hearing]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the arraignment of two men, Leo Potishman and Julian Scott, who were accused of defrauding the government.
Date: October 7, 1953
Duration: 1 minute 28 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: News Brief - Suggs]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about Sherill Douglas Suggs receiving a guilty verdict and an eight-year prison sentence for holding up Raven's Pharmacy in Oak Cliff.
Date: October 14, 1953
Duration: 37 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Deputy Trial]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the trial of former Tarrant County Deputy Sheriff Vernon Johnson, accused of assaulting a man after shooting him allegedly without provocation.
Date: October 15, 1953
Duration: 1 minute 31 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Taft]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about Charles Taft arriving in Dallas for a pre-Armistice Day address at the First Methodist Church.
Date: November 10, 1953
Duration: 1 minute 13 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Sheppard Charges Red Plot in Texas]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about Texas Attorney General, John Ben Sheppard, accusing the Processing and Office Worker Union of America of being a communist operation to cripple the oil industry.
Date: November 25, 1953
Duration: 3 minutes 07 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Moncrief Guilty - Sportatorium Fire]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the trial and sentencing of William Theodore Moncrief, found guilty of paying two men to burn down a Dallas wrestling arena.
Date: December 9, 1953
Duration: 1 minute 11 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Carlton Freed on Arson Charge]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about Fort Worth City Councilman T. L. Carleton exonerated in a jury trial of charges of arson after his business burned down and he was accused by fire officials of deliberately setting the fire.
Date: December 13, 1953
Duration: 1 minute 40 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Cuban Robbery Trial Postponed]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about the postponement of the trial of Gene Paul Norris, a Tarrant County man accused of robbing two visiting Cubans at the Western Hill Hotel in Fort Worth.
Date: March 10, 1953
Duration: 48 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Brown Trial and Mrs. Ray Trial]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about Donald Hawkins Brown going on trial for the murder of Edward J. Campbell. Followed by a story about about the trial of Rubye Ray, accused of the slaying of her 5-year old foster son.
Date: April 21, 1953
Duration: 1 minute 35 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Potter and Floore]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the resignation of Frank Potter, the U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas, to be succeeded by Heard L. Floore.
Date: June 16, 1953
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: News briefs - USDA sworn in]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the swearing in of John A. Hamilton as U.S. District Attorney, replacing Bill Cantrell.
Date: August 26, 1953
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: New judge]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the swearing-in ceremony of new Dallas Criminal District Judge Harold B. Wright.
Date: February 3, 1953
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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