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A Good Tale and a Bonnie Tune

Description: Volume of miscellaneous folklore about Texas and Mexico, including Mexican folktales, Texas folk songs, information about Texas streams and information about racial discrimination in the South. The index begins on page 273.
Date: 2017
Creator: Texas Folklore Society
Partner: UNT Press
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Oral History Interview with Katie Sherrod, November 10, 2012

Description: Interview with Katie Sherrod, a journalist in Dallas and Forth Worth, Texas. The interview includes biographical information about her life growing up, her educational background, her involvement in various women's rights movements during the 1970s, and her career as a newspaperwoman and a broadcast journalist.
Date: November 10, 2012
Creator: Mehdi, Sahar; Nolasea, Diana & Sherrod, Katie
Partner: UNT Frank W. and Sue Mayborn School of Journalism

[Thunderhead Weed Wash sign]

Description: Photograph of a sign for Thunderhead Weed Wash in Sheffield, Texas, during a river rafting trip led by Steven Fromholz and Craig Hillis in November 2002. The sign consists of a cloud with a lightning bolt to the left of the business' name. A road can be seen in the background on the right side of the photograph.
Date: November 2002
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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Perceived Attitudes of the Self-Concept of Dropouts Who Returned to an Alternative Education School and Coordinated Vocational Academic Education Students

Description: The problem of this study was to determine if there were differences in perceived attitudes of self-concept between young people who returned to alternative education after dropping out of public education and educationally disadvantaged at-risk youth in Coordinated Vocational Academic Education (CVAE) classes as measured by the Piers-Harris Children's Self-Concept Scale. The hypotheses formulated for the study predicted no significant difference in mean attitude self-concept scores of returned… more
Date: December 1988
Creator: Paris, Tex
Partner: UNT Libraries
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[News Clip: UT Vinyard in West Texas]

Description: Video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story.
Date: July 26, 1982, 6:00 p.m.
Duration: 3 minutes 25 seconds
Creator: KXAS-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Pony express]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about pony express riders who are taking part at a festival in Fort Stockton in west Texas.
Date: August 10, 1974, 10:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Missing child]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about Pecos county authorities who pressed their search for a 7 year old Ft. Stockton girl missing since 14 days.
Date: August 1, 1974, 6:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Missing persons]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about hundreds of private citizens who are helping West Texas law enforcement authorities in a search near Fort Stockton for 7 year old Dessie Holt who has been missing since Friday night.
Date: July 21, 1974, 10:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: New top Texas weather]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about cooler air which is triggering numerous and often heavy thunderstorms as it continues tp spread over Texas.
Date: June 24, 1974, 8:25 a.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Kicker]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about the Johnson Funeral Home in Sheffield, Illinois which has been struck by discriminating thieves.
Date: April 17, 1974, 12:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Permian Basin]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story spokesmen for some independent Texas oil companies will be in Washington, to ask the government to recognize the small oil producers.
Date: February 3, 1974, 10:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Recluse Found]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story of a 67-year-old women who was found dead at her home in Imperial, Texas.
Date: December 29, 1973, 10:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Recluse Found]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story of a 67-year-old recluse who was found dead in her home in Imperial, Texas.
Date: December 29, 1973, 6:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Pony express]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about business leaders at Fort Stockton who have scheduled a special event to challenge the modern postal service.
Date: July 26, 1973, 6:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Body]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about police who are investigating the violent death of a 23 year old man, whose body was found in his south Fort Worth apartment.
Date: June 24, 1973, 10:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Collision]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about the death of 9 people resulting from a collision between a bus and a truck.
Date: May 31, 1973, 10:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Bridge crash]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about a bridge crash. Three of the people who had died in the bus/trailer crash had yet to be identified at this point. 23 other people died in the wreck. The bridge was to be replaced but funds had been frozen by the Nixon administration.
Date: March 9, 1973, 8:25 a.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Bus crash]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about a bus crash. The Texas Department of Public Safety was trying to identify three of the seven people who died in a fiery crash of a bus and a truck. A total of 23 people were injured in the collision.
Date: March 9, 1973, 6:30 a.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Bus truck crash]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about a bus-truck crash. The death toll from the accident rose to nine. Two more passengers died from burn injuries.
Date: March 9, 1973, 6:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Fort stockton crash]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about the Fort Stockton crash. The death toll was brought to nine after two men died in a burn center. Three people in the crash were still not identified at this point.
Date: March 9, 1973, 12:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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