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[News Script: Iron Lung]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about Laverne Philips, a 13-year-old girl, and her impending trip to Southwestern Poliomyelitis Respiratory Center in Houston, where she will be weaned away from her iron lung.
Date: September 23, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Script
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Parade]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a carnival to be held at the Fair Park Foods Building in Dallas, Texas, as a fund raising project for the National Polio Foundation.
Date: August 31, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Script
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Polio]

Description: Video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story. This story aired at 5pm.
Date: June 15, 1989, 5:00 p.m.
Duration: 1 minute 37 seconds
Creator: KXAS-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Video
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

Mary Elizabeth Runkles Davis

Description: Research paper written for a history class at Marfa High School about Mary Elizabeth Runkles Davis from Marfa, Texas, who contracted polio at the age of seven - She later went on to eat dinner with President Roosevelt, become Woman of the Year in 1968, and write poetry.
Date: January 1977
Creator: Sanchez, Delma
Item Type: Refine your search to only Text
Partner: Marfa Public Library

The Drake Family

Description: Research paper written for a history class at Marfa High School about the Drake family, who first came to Texas in the 1850s. John Drake, the author's grandfather, was a poor ranch man, and the author's father, Dawson Cole Drake, was stationed in England during his military service.
Date: 1970
Item Type: Refine your search to only Text
Partner: Marfa Public Library

[News Script: Mothers March]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a meeting held by the Mothers-March-on-Police-Workers to determine how they will raise funds to fight polio.
Date: January 9, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Script
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: March of Dimes]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about an aerial survey being taken by the Dallas Mothers March on Polio, which will aid them in their campaigning next Monday.
Date: January 12, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Script
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Polio patient to graduate]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a North Dallas High School student, Beth Bowman, celebrating her graduation despite suffering from polio.
Date: May 27, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Script
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Iron Lung]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about Judy Whitman, a reporter for the Dallas Times-Herald, who experienced living in an iron lung at Parkland Hospital.
Date: January 11, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Script
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Dallas children get polio serum]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about Dallas schoolchildren receiving the first of three polio vaccines.
Date: May 5, 1954
Duration: 1 minute 56 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Video
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Dallas kids get last polio shots]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about a group of Dallas schoolchildren receiving their third and final polio vaccine.
Date: June 9, 1954
Duration: 1 minute 04 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Video
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Letter from Thomas F. Millane to John J. Herrera - 1950-12-28]

Description: Letter from Thomas F. Millane, Campaign Director, 1951 March of Dimes, Harris County Chapter, to John J. Herrera dated December 28, 1950. Millane inquires if Herrera would serve as Chairman of the March of Dimes Latin American Committee. Refers to 318 cases of polio that occurred in Harris County in 1950.
Date: December 28, 1950
Creator: Millane, Thomas F.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Letter
Partner: Hoston History Research Center at Houston Public Library
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[News Clip: Iron lung]

Description: Video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story.
Date: November 18, 1978
Duration: 2 minutes 43 seconds
Creator: KXAS-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Video
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Salk]

Description: B-roll video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story.
Date: April 11, 1986
Duration: 1 minute 03 seconds
Creator: KXAS-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Video
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Iron lung kid]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a polio-stricken 9-year-old Arlington boy being transported home in an iron lung after a 10-month hospital stay.
Date: October 5, 1959
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Script
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Polio Clinic]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about Dr. Leonard Nystrom of Mesquite, providing $2.00 polio vaccinations for more than 400 Mesquite citizens at Big Town Shopping Center.
Date: July 19, 1959
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Script
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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