Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about an explosion and fire destroying a parsonage at the Oak View Baptist Church in Fort Worth, caused by a flammable chemical spray county employees were using inside the house to exterminate insects. No one was injured in the blast, but the residence was completely destroyed.
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Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about an explosion and fire destroying a parsonage at the Oak View Baptist Church in Fort Worth, caused by a flammable chemical spray county employees were using inside the house to exterminate insects. No one was injured in the blast, but the residence was completely destroyed.
Video footage from the WBAP-TV television station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story about an explosion and fire destroying a parsonage at the Oak View Baptist Church in Fort Worth, caused by a flammable chemical spray county employees were using inside the house to exterminate insects. No one was injured in the blast, but the residence was completely destroyed.
WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.).[News Script: Explosion and fire wreck pastor's home],
script,
May 31, 1956;
(https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc498614/:
accessed June 16, 2024),
University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu;
crediting UNT Libraries Special Collections.