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[News Clip: The week in review]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about the police shooting of two infamous Dallas bank robbers after a chase, along with details of their past crimes. The package continues with ongoing coverage of severe statewide flooding, an explosion at a Dallas grocery store, an unsuccessful anti-segregation filibuster in the Texas Senate, the production of the final B-36 Bomber at the Corvair plant in Fort Worth, and the retirement of the nation's oldes… more
Date: May 4, 1957
Duration: 10 minutes 24 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
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[News Clip: Flood]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about residents of Wichita Falls being forced to evacuate their homes due rising floodwaters.
Date: October 4, 1955
Duration: 2 minutes 36 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
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[News Clip: Negro woman sits as county judge]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about Charlye Farris, the only female or black lawyer in the city of Wichita Falls, being appointed acting county judge. She was also the first black woman to be licensed to practice law in Texas.
Date: July 8, 1954
Duration: 42 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
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[News Clip: Happy birthday]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about Nancy Voss, a young Wichita Falls girl suffering from cancer, receiving a birthday trip to her old hometown in Fort Worth as a gift from three radio stations. Voss visits old schoolmates and the Fort Worth Zoo before a birthday dinner at a resort hotel with her friends.
Date: July 19, 1951
Duration: 1 minute 27 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
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[News Clip: Tornado]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV television station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story.
Date: April 3, 1958
Duration: 3 minutes 48 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
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[News Clip: Tornado]

Description: Video footage the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a tornado that caused destruction in Wichita Falls, Texas, in the community of Deandale.
Date: April 3, 1958
Duration: 3 minutes 16 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
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