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[Margaret McDonald at Mrs. Tuckers Shortening Plant]

Description: Photograph of Margaret McDonald and Laura Albertine Barry at Mrs. Tucker’s shortening products. They are both facing one another and dressed in formal attire. Behind them, two women are visible working at machinery stations at Mrs. Tuckers Shortening Plant in Sherman, Texas.
Date: August 6, 1953
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)

[Margaret McDonald holding Mrs. Tucker's shortening]

Description: Photograph of Margaret McDonald and another woman holding up Mrs. Tucker’s shortening products. They are both smiling at the camera and dressed in formal attire. Behind them, two women are visible working at machinery stations at Mrs. Tuckers Shortening Plant in Sherman, Texas.
Date: August 6, 1953
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)

[Margaret McDonald in kitchen at Mrs. Tuckers Shortening Plant]

Description: Photograph of Margaret McDonald and another woman in a kitchen. The woman is holding a silicone spoon in her hands. They appear to be in a conversation and dressed in formal attire. Behind them, there is a glass window into another room. They are at Mrs. Tuckers Shortening Plant in Sherman, Texas.
Date: August 6, 1953
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
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[News Clip: Austin college football]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about the Austin College football team traveling to Mexico for a game against Mexico City University.
Date: October 12, 1955
Duration: 50 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
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[News Clip: Bridge is damaged in freak accident]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about a railroad bridge collapsing near Denison, sending nine cars off the tracks. The accident was caused by a car crashing into one of the train cars and sending it into the bridge. A man and woman in the car were injured.
Date: August 10, 1955
Duration: 1 minute 17 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
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[News Clip: Cindy to get legs]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about a toddler named Cindy Inman of Sherman traveling to East Orange, New Jersey, to be fitted for artificial legs.
Date: November 27, 1955
Duration: 1 minute 19 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
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[News Clip: Dog Hero]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about Tang, the dog who saved the lives of children by pushing them out of the path of oncoming cars.
Date: August 17, 1954
Duration: 1 minute 08 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
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[News Clip: Dog is star of school pageant]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about a Denison Collie named Tang honored at the Centennial Cavalcade of Texas Teaching convention in Dallas. Tang is credited with saving the lives of several children.
Date: September 5, 1954
Duration: 57 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
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[News Clip: Draftee]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the induction of Edward Thomas Murphy into the army. He is personally accompanied by Colonel Morris B. Schwartz, the State Director of Selective Service, because Murphy is the one-hundred-thousandth draftee in Texas since the Korean War.
Date: July 3, 1956
Duration: 1 minute 19 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
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[News Clip: Eisenhower]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about the birthplace of President Dwight D. Eisenhower in Denison.
Date: July 19, 1957
Duration: 2 minutes 12 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
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[News Clip: Five Killed in Airplane Crash]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a plane crash near Sherman, Texas that killed five employees of the Magnolia Petroleum Company.
Date: December 13, 1953
Duration: 1 minute 12 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
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[News Clip: Katy moves to Dennison]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about the offices of the Missouri-Kansas-Texas railroad secretly moving from Kansas and St. Louis to Denison.
Date: March 28, 1957
Duration: 2 minutes 31 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
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[News Clip: Mile of Dollars]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about Bells, a small Texas town, hosting a fundraiser to rebuild the local Methodist church after a fire.
Date: May 9, 1951
Duration: 2 minutes 06 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
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[News Clip: Oil wells]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV television station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story about the Shell Oil Company drilling wells in Lake Texoma in an attempt to find oil while the water level is low due to drought.
Date: July 1, 1953
Duration: 1 minute 26 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
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[News Clip: Pilot parachutes safely from plane]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about a U.S. Air Force jet pilot parachuting successfully from his F-86 after it caught fire during flight.
Date: September 21, 1955
Duration: 1 minute 14 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
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[News Clip: Roy Rogers off on Red River jaunt]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV television station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story about Roy Rogers going on a week-long trip down the Red River and Mississippi to New Orleans.
Date: May 2, 1956
Duration: 1 minute 06 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
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[News Clip: The week in review]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story covering the major news stories of the past week, including ongoing flooding across Tarrant, Collin, and Grayson Counties, the shooting death of a Fort Worth plumbing executive after a man caught him with his wife, and an explosion during a fire at a house in Fort Worth that was later explained as unrelated to the fire and actually caused by a jet overhead breaking the sound barrier.
Date: June 1, 1957
Duration: 4 minutes 11 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
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[News Clip: The Week In Review]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering the weekly news report about the NAACP, visiting senators, bank refund, a gas explosion killing two in Southmayd, Texas, court cases, a man murdered by a 14 year old, and two plane accidents.
Date: October 27, 1956
Duration: 3 minutes 16 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
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[News Clip: Tree-Watering Device, Student Pilot Dies When Plane Crashes, News Briefs -- Patty, Pumpers Won't Drink Dallas Tap Water, Sonny Evans, Democrats, Gorilla]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story about a homemade tree-saving device, created by Fort Worth police detective T. M. Wood; Captain Charles Walker, a student pilot from Perrin Air Force Base, who crashed his T-33 jet training plane and died; the brief appearance of singer Patty Page in Dallas, Texas, en route to marry movie director Charles O'Curran; the salty drinking water in Dallas, which comes from the Red River; the arrest of teenager Sonn… more
Date: September 7, 1956
Duration: 10 minutes 59 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
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[News Clip: Von Braun]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about the joint conference of the American Rocket Society and the American Society of Mechanical Engineers with guest speaker Wernher Von Braun.
Date: March 18, 1958
Duration: 49 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
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[News Clip: Wynne Chapel]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about Austin College in Sherman opening its 109th year with a convocation and dedication of the new Wynne Chapel, donated by the Toddie Lee Wynne family of Dallas. Doctor Harold Muller directs the Austin College choir in the dedication anthem "Onward Ye Peoples." Dr. Elliot then turns the key over to the schools president John D. Moseley. Then in the chapels steeple, the Sam Houston Bell is wrung as it was a g… more
Date: September 15, 1958
Duration: 1 minute 57 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)

[News Script: Activities of the Week]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas relating a news story about the Colonial National Invitation Golf Tournament held in Fort Worth where thirty-five golfers compete for fifteen thousand in prize money. The champion, Slammin' Sammy Snead took home the prize money. Austin College in Sherman marked its 100th commencement with dedication ceremonies which featured the appearance of Speaker of the House Representatitve, Sam Rayburn.
Date: May 17, 1950, 7:10 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
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