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[News Clip: News briefs one]

Description: Video footage from he WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a story about a new jacket for Dallas police officers, modeled after the military jacket of General Dwight D. Eisenhower during World War II.
Date: October 24, 1951
Duration: 1 minute 16 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Majorettes like brief uniforms]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV television station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story about new uniforms for majorettes at Fort Worth high schools
Date: October 24, 1951
Duration: 2 minutes 05 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Extortion]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV television station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story about a Fort Worth butcher, Eugene Wesley Sapp, charged with extortion after threatening over the phone to blow up the home of oilman Lou Wattenbarger unless he paid him $2,500.
Date: October 24, 1951, 6:45 p.m.
Duration: 52 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Sadie Hawkins day]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV television station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story about Sadie Hawkins Day at Texas Wesleyan University in Fort Worth, where campus women try to catch male students for a mock wedding ceremony.
Date: October 24, 1951
Duration: 1 minute 26 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Patients escape in hospital fire]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV television station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story about a fire at St. Paul's hospital in Dallas. All patients and staff managed to escape the blaze unharmed.
Date: October 24, 1951
Duration: 1 minute 04 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: News briefs]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a Dallas police officers entering into seminary and Texas Scottish Rite Hospital for Crippled Children it's 28th memorial service.
Date: May 24, 1951
Duration: 1 minute 44 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Fish rodeo]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a fishing competition for children at the Meadowbrook's White Lake.
Date: August 24, 1951
Duration: 1 minute 25 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Water safety school]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the annual National Red Cross Aquatics School teaching lifesaving skills at Texas State College for Women.
Date: August 24, 1951
Duration: 1 minute 41 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Miss Flame]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a "Miss Flame" beauty pageant sponsored by the Oak Cliff Kiwanis club to raise awareness for a fire prevention campaign.
Date: August 24, 1951
Duration: 33 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Miss Texas]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about Glenda Jane Holcomb, 1951 Miss Texas award winner, arriving in Fort Worth to purchase a wardrobe before representing the state at the Miss America pageant.
Date: August 24, 1951
Duration: 1 minute 34 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Baseball]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a baseball game between the Fort Worth Cats and the Dallas Eagles. The Eagles win the game, 7-3.
Date: May 24, 1951
Duration: 1 minute 59 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: News briefs]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering three news stories. The first story is about a visit to the Fort Worth Quartermaster Depot by Army Major General Herman Feldman. The second story is about the swearing-in of a new judge for the 96th District Court, Fisher T. Denny. The third story is about a young Fort Worth boy, Lewis Jackson, who was slightly injured during his birthday party after being hit in the chest by a 38 caliber shell loaded into a plastic pop gun.
Date: July 24, 1951
Duration: 2 minutes 01 second
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Veteran returns]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about Master Sergeant Paul McCammon returning home to his family after ten months in Korea.
Date: May 24, 1951
Duration: 2 minutes 19 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Pleasure boat]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a new metal river boat, "The Idle Time", going on its first 17 hundred mile excursion.
Date: July 24, 1951
Duration: 1 minute 57 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Soap box derby]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the Sixth Annual Soap Derby in Fort Worth.
Date: July 24, 1951
Duration: 2 minutes 24 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Texas news review]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering major Texas news stories from the past week, including the swearing in of a new federal judge in the eastern district of Texas, and a convention of the Texas State Chiropractic Association in Fort Worth.
Date: June 24, 1951
Duration: 4 minutes 35 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Bomb probe]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a special grand jury being sworn in to investigate repeated instances of bombing negro homes in formerly white areas of South Dallas.
Date: July 24, 1951
Duration: 2 minutes 34 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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