[News Clip: Would Be Suicide, Trial, Smoky Fire, American Legion, Hagler, and a Beauty Contest]

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Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story about a man whom police talked down off of a Ft. Worth water tower, and stories about David Hagler posting bond, a very smoky fire, an American Legion Parade, a meeting about the Rylie School District, and a beauty pageant.

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1 film (5 min., 46 sec.) : si., b&w ; 16 mm.

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WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.) August 3, 1956.

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  • Main Title: [News Clip: Would Be Suicide, Trial, Smoky Fire, American Legion, Hagler, and a Beauty Contest]
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Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story about a man whom police talked down off of a Ft. Worth water tower, and stories about David Hagler posting bond, a very smoky fire, an American Legion Parade, a meeting about the Rylie School District, and a beauty pageant.

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  • Preferred Citation: NBC 5/KXAS Television News Collection (AR0776), University of North Texas Special Collections

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WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.). [News Clip: Would Be Suicide, Trial, Smoky Fire, American Legion, Hagler, and a Beauty Contest], video, August 3, 1956; Fort Worth, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc307592/: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting UNT Libraries Special Collections.

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