[News Script: Catfish in Cali] Page: 1 of 2
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SOUND ON TAPE COMING
LEE: LIVE
The walking catfish---the bad tempered fish
hr been walking from pond to pond in Texas and
thatidaforaoupleofyears
as now managed to
hitchhike to Ualifornia. The pinkish-colored
amphibians started showing up in pe shop windows---
and the California Game and Fish Department
marine
immediately banned them as a threat to otiei 1 ife.
Details from N-B-C Newsman Ray Cullin:TAKE VTR
SOUND ON TAPE: 1:17
OUTCUE: "...THEY'LL BE DUMPED OUT INTO THE NEARBY
WATER S ."
That's News at Ten. Goodnight.
FISH -CLO%"'
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LEE : LIVE
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WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.). [News Script: Catfish in Cali], script, December 19, 1969, 10:00 p.m.; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc1218169/m1/1/?q=%221969-12-19%22: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting UNT Libraries Special Collections.