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[News Script: Whitney ceremony]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about completion ceremonies for Highway 22 across the top of Whitney Dam on the Brazos River.
Date: March 6, 1951
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Historic town being razed]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the town of Kimball, which will soon be largely submerged under Lake Whitney after the damming of the Brazos River is complete.
Date: April 3, 1953
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Pilot killed in jet plane crash]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV television station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story about a jet training plane crashing and burning, resulting in the death of one person.
Date: July 15, 1953
Duration: 1 minute 39 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Plane crash]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about an Air Force training plan from James Connaly Air Force Base in Waco, exploding and crashing just north of Walnut Springs, killing a French cadet.
Date: September 17, 1953
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Beauties]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about a competition among pageant winners at Lake Whitney for the right to represent Texas in the Miss World beauty pageant in California.
Date: June 24, 1955
Duration: 1 minute 10 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Beauties]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a competition among pageant winners at Lake Whitney for the right to represent Texas in the Miss World beauty pageant in California.
Date: June 24, 1955
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Miss Whitney]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about beauty pageant winners from various states passing through North Texas airports en route to Long Beach, California, to compete in the Miss Universe contest.
Date: July 14, 1955
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Dallas Attorney charged in murder]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about Dallas Attorney Norman Hamilton being charged with the murder of Clarence Bethke, his ranch foreman.
Date: December 11, 1955
Duration: 3 minutes 13 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Motel for Boats at Lake Whitney]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a new boat motel, owned by Fred Waggoner, at Lake Whitney. The motel features twenty stalls to accommodate boats up to 18-and-a-half feet long.
Date: February 8, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Miss Navy]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a military-sponsored "Miss Navy" beauty contest in Lake Whitney.
Date: June 12, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Cock fight robbery]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about 26 year old Raymond Butler being charged with trying to rob spectators at a cock fight in Meridian, Texas after receiving multiple gunshot wounds in the leg.
Date: August 18, 1957
Duration: 47 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Cock fight robbery]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about 26 year old Raymond Butler being charged with trying to rob spectators at a cock fight in Meridian, Texas after receiving multiple gunshot wounds in the leg.
Date: August 18, 1957
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Plane crash]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about two fighter jets colliding near Lake Whitney, resulting in the death of one pilot.
Date: December 18, 1957
Duration: 51 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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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 fighter jets colliding near Lake Whitney, resulting in the death of one pilot.
Date: December 18, 1957
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: The week in review]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering the major news stories of the past week, including a housefire in Dallas that left one sleeping man dead, a collision between two Air Force jets over Lake Whitney that ended in a crash killing one pilot, the collapse of a ceiling at a Dallas cafe with no one injured, the arrest of an escaped convict at a Dallas tavern, an investigation of bribery between a Dallas insurance executive and a state insurance investigator, and the on… more
Date: December 21, 1957
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Miss Universe]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a dozen contestants competing in the Texas Miss Universe pageant.
Date: June 12, 1960
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Miss Universe]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the Texas Miss Universe competition at Lake Whitney.
Date: June 13, 1962
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Scouts]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the Fort Worth's Troop 326 boy scouts camped at the Chisolm Trail Park in Kimball, Texas.
Date: June 16, 1963
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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