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[Featuring Dick Motors]

Description: Photograph of two men standing in front of a 1953 Dodge Coronet on a street. One of them is handing a small object to the other. They are both wearing suits. Behind them, there is a store with several signs.
Date: February 26, 1953
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)

[Featuring See Saw Zoo]

Description: Photograph of the puppet show, See-Saw Zoo, with two characters. Both puppets are wearing cowboy costumes. The scene is on a field setting with two puppets interacting with one another.
Date: February 26, 1953
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
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[News Clip: Assault Suspect]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about police putting an end to a four-day manhunt after capturing and killing assault suspect Henry Denson.
Date: November 26, 1953
Duration: 1 minute 44 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
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[News Clip: Atomic Cannon]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about the firing of the world's first atomic cannon at Fort Sill in Oklahoma.
Date: March 26, 1953
Duration: 2 minutes 14 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
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[News Clip: Bank robbery]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about one man robbing the Charlotte State Bank of $1,902 and avoiding police capture.
Date: March 26, 1953
Duration: 2 minutes 47 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
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[News Clip: Beauties on parade]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about a parade in Fort Worth celebrating the annual Miss Fort Worth beauty pageant.
Date: May 26, 1953
Duration: 1 minute 19 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
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[News Clip: Beer thief]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV television station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story about a Dallas man stealing beer from a delivery truck, being locked inside the truck by the deliveryman, and deposited at police headquarters.
Date: July 26, 1953
Duration: 52 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
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[News Clip: Benson arrives to study drought]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV television station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story about the arrival in Fort Worth of U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Ezra Benson, touring the drought-afflicted Southwest to determine the allocation of federal relief funds.
Date: June 26, 1953
Duration: 2 minutes 42 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
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[News Clip: Body Found]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the dead body of a woman being found in the Clear Fork of the Trinity River.
Date: November 26, 1953
Duration: 11 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
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[News Clip: Boneheads]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about the Dallas Bonehead Club installing an Indian, Aubrey J. Roberts, as their big chief.
Date: May 26, 1953
Duration: 1 minute 46 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
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[News Clip: Car burners]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about four youths arrested in Houston for stealing and torching a series of cars.
Date: February 26, 1953
Duration: 59 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
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[News Clip: Cat bid for league lead is thwarted]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV television station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story about a baseball game at LaGrave Field between the Fort Worth Cats and the Dallas Eagles. The Eagles win the game 6-1.
Date: June 26, 1953
Duration: 2 minutes 15 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
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[News Clip: Christians and Jews]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the National Conference of Christians and Jews, an annual interfaith gathering in Dallas.
Date: February 26, 1953
Duration: 1 minute 34 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
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[News Clip: Conley returns]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV television station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story about Louis Bob Conley being released from jail and being reunited with his daughter.
Date: July 26, 1953
Duration: 1 minute 36 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
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[News Clip: Cops]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about an investigation of Dallas police officers for a police burglary conspiracy.
Date: June 26, 1953
Duration: 3 minutes 24 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
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[News Clip: Corbett Twins]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about Jean and Joan Corbett, twin sisters, touring to promote Bob Hope's latest film, "Here Come the Girls," in which they appear.
Date: November 26, 1953
Duration: 50 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
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[News Clip: Dallas Jaycees Name Miss Flame]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the Miss Flame beauty contest held in Dallas, to kick off Fire Prevention Week.
Date: August 26, 1953
Duration: 1 minute 08 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
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[News Clip: Derailed freight cars]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about three loaded Texas & Pacific railroad freight cars derailing in West Dallas. No one was injured, but both the cars and track were damaged.
Date: February 26, 1953
Duration: 48 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
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[News Clip: Driverless Truck]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a truck rolling down Jacksboro Highway after Bob Crosley failed to engage the brake.
Date: August 26, 1953
Duration: 32 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
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