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[News Script: News roundup]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about daily events in Houston, Moscow, New Delhi, and Italy.
Date: February 3, 1971, 6:30 a.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Kissinger]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story of sources saying that Syria has asked Secretary of State to help hammer out an Israeli-Syrian troop engagement on the Golan Heights. Also, a Pakistani airliner who arrived in Cairo, Egypt with three gunmen who held two hostages aboard a Greek freighter in Karachi harbor.
Date: February 4, 1974, 6:30 a.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Guerrillas]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story of several gunmen who burst into a mosque in Brooklyn and opened fire killing 4 men and wounding the fifth man. Also Greek government who has pledged to free two Palestinian Guerrillas sentenced to death for murders committed at the Athens airport.
Date: February 5, 1974, 6:30 a.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Port Aransas]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story of salvage crews who continue to work near Port Aransas, trying to free a 570-foot freighter which ran around.
Date: February 9, 1974, 10:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: News]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story of news from different parts of world.
Date: February 18, 1974, 6:30 a.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Bangladesh]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about Pakistan and Bangladesh who are making their diplomatic peace after three years of bitterness.
Date: February 22, 1974, 12:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Islam]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story of a three-day summit meeting of Asia and African Islamic leaders which begins in Lahore, Pakistan.
Date: February 22, 1974, 6:30 a.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Gun Show]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story of the Dallas Gun Collector Association which is holding its semi-annual public gun show at Market Hall in Dallas.
Date: February 23, 1974, 10:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Kissinger]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story of Kissinger who has the backing of Egyptian president as he prepares to leave Washington on his fourth mission to the Middle East.
Date: February 25, 1974, 6:30 a.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Runaways]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about a 10-year old Douglas Morgan his brother William who left their Milwaukee home with a collection of Indian head-dresses, a tim-tom, spear and bow-and-arrow.
Date: February 26, 1974, 10:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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Oral History Interview with Thomas A. Whitehead, February 2, 1977

Description: Interview with Thomas Whitehead, a Texas National Guard WWII veteran and POW from Wichita Falls, Texas. Whitehead discusses his experiences as a member of 2nd Battalion, 131st Field Artillery, the "Lost Battalion" captured on Java in March 1942, including: joining the National Guard; participation in the Louisiana Maneuvers; departure for the Philippines and diversion to Brisbane; assignment to Sangosari Airfield near Malang; the surrender of American forces; internment at Tanjong Priok and Bic… more
Date: February 2, 1977
Creator: Marcello, Ronald E. & Whitehead, Thomas A.
Partner: UNT Oral History Program

Oral History Interview with Tom Peays, February 6, 1999

Description: Transcript of an interview with Thomas "Tom" Peay, a rancher and Army Air Forces veteran (Air Transport Command), concerning his experiences in the China-Burma-India Theater during World War II. Peay discusses his enrollment in the Civilian Pilot Training Program, 1942; tenure as a primary flight training instructor of Aviation Air Cadets, Harmon Training Center, Ballinger, Texas, 1942-43; Air Ferry Command, 1943; induction into the Army Air Forces, 1943; assignment to the Air Transport Command… more
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Date: February 6, 1999
Creator: Alexander, William J. & Peays, Thomas
Partner: UNT Oral History Program

Oral History Interview with Frederick J. Holland, Jr., February 16, 1999

Description: Transcript of an interview with Frederick J. Holland, Jr., an Army Air Forces veteran, concerning his experiences in the China-Burma-India Theater during World War II. Holland discusses his early employment with REA Express; basic training, Fort Miles Standish, Massachusetts, 1942; his transfer to the Air Force and assignment to Patterson Field, Dayton, Ohio, 1942; Officer Candidate School, Miami, Florida, 1943; assignment to India; assignment to Dum Dum Airport, Calcutta, 1943; his role in sup… more
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Date: February 16, 1999
Creator: Alexander, William J. & Holland, Frederick J., Jr.
Partner: UNT Oral History Program

Oral History Interview with Nick Sanchez, February 16, 1999

Description: Interview with Nick Sanchez, a Army Air Force WWII veteran from Laredo, Texas. Sanchez discusses working in radio when the war began, becoming a radio technician in the Army Air Force, deployment to India and operations there, going missing in China after surviving a plane crash, and the end of the war. In appendix are an autobiographical sketch of Sanchez's service, a copy of a diary recording his experience "bailing-out," and his official military statement of the event.
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Date: February 16, 1999
Creator: Alexander, William J. & Sanchez, Nick
Partner: UNT Oral History Program

Oral History Interview with Richard L. Johnston, February 17, 1999

Description: Interview with William J. Alexander, a Army WWII veteran from Universal, Pennsylvania, who served as an officer of the 382nd Engineer Battalion (Separate), a unit of black enlisted troops. Alexander discusses growing up, joining the Civilian Conservation Corps, joining the Army and commissioning through OCS, training, deployment to India, building the Ledo Road, General Joseph Stilwell, constructing the 20th Bomber Command HQ, working in a steelmill, the atomic bomb, returning home, and postwar… more
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Date: February 17, 1999
Creator: Alexander, William J. & Johnston, Richard L.
Partner: UNT Oral History Program

Oral History Interview with William J. Lesko, February 17, 1999

Description: Interview with William J. Lesko, a Army Air Corps WWII veteran from New Kensington, Pennsylvania, who served with the 14th Combat Cargo Group in the China-Burma-India Theater. Lesko discusses his family background, enlisting and training to be a radar and radio technician, deployment to India, flying supplies to British troops in Burma, the end of the war, returning to the United States, and life postwar.
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Date: February 17, 1999
Creator: Alexander, William J. & Lesko, William J.
Partner: UNT Oral History Program
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