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[News Clip: Polio vaccine]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about the first shipment of Dr. Jonas Salk's experimental polio vaccine arriving in Tarrant and Dallas Counties, with controversy over whether the shot should be administered to grade school students.
Date: April 29, 1954
Duration: 1 minute 51 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Trio rescued in hotel fire]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about a fire at a downtown hotel in Fort Worth. A polio victim mother and her two children were rescued from a room without incident, and no one else was injured in the blaze.
Date: November 29, 1955
Duration: 1 minute 04 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Polio]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about specially trained medics from the Brooks Air Force Base in San Antonio arriving in Dallas to help transport polio patient Mrs. Henry Huff to Hensley Field at Grand Prairie and then Glendale, California to join her family.
Date: June 29, 1958
Duration: 2 minutes 42 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Polio]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about Dr. Henry Kumm, research chief for the national foundation arrives in Dallas for a speech He'll make to 400 foundation members. The national foundation formerly the national foundation for infantile paralysis is drawing up plans for a 65 million dollar fund drive beginning in January.
Date: October 29, 1958
Duration: 41 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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