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[News Clip: Blast wrecks home, kills one, hurts 2]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about a gas explosion destroying a Fort Worth home, killing a young boy and injuring his mother and sister.
Date: October 16, 1955
Duration: 1 minute 31 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Plumber is killed in freak accident]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about a Fort Worth plumber, Joe Fry, being electrocuted to death while on the job.
Date: June 2, 1955
Duration: 1 minute 31 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Mineral water]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about a 50-year-old Dallas man Wallace C. Maxwell being jailed for violation of Texas medical malpractice laws.
Date: June 9, 1955
Duration: 1 minute 07 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: X-ray]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about free chest x-rays being offered in Tarrant county.
Date: June 9, 1955
Duration: 1 minute 07 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Negro fined $500 in traffic death]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about a Fort Worth ambulance driver, James LeRoy Leach, being fined $500 after hitting and killing a man while speeding to what he believed was an emergency. Instead of facing jail time, he was fined $500.
Date: June 22, 1955
Duration: 1 minute 02 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Vaccine flown to Fort Worth]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about a shipment of the Salk polio vaccine arriving in Fort Worth, to be administered free of charge to first and second-grade students in the city.
Date: July 15, 1955
Duration: 1 minute 02 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Pharmacists]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about the annual convention of the Texas Pharmaceutical Association at the Texas Hotel in Fort Worth.
Date: August 14, 1955
Duration: 1 minute 10 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Entertainer seeks funds for polio]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about television singer Mae Williams appealing for funds for the Sister Kenney Polio Foundation at Fort Worth's Meacham Field.
Date: August 2, 1955
Duration: 1 minute 01 second
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Mothers rally for polio fund drive]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about soldier Carl George Malloy being found guilty of the murder of his 7-week-old son and being sentenced to 99 years in prison.
Date: January 14, 1955
Duration: 1 minute 42 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Parents disagree on baby's injuries]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about a pair of Fort Worth parents coming under police investigation after it was found that their baby was suffering from a broken collarbone and didn't receive medical attention for five days.
Date: October 30, 1955
Duration: 1 minute 30 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: City county health center approved]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about commissioners in Tarrant County and the Fort Worth City Council approving plans for a new health department building.
Date: September 8, 1955
Duration: 1 minute 21 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Hospital check]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about the Academy of Medicine receiving $20,000 from the Jewel Ball and the Women's Board.
Date: May 5, 1955
Duration: 40 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Few in area get questioned vaccine]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about a federal order to halt the distribution of polio vaccines made by Cutter Laboratories in California, after several people fall ill with polio after receiving the inoculation. Officials say vaccines made by the company have been distributed in unknown numbers in the Dallas and Fort Worth areas, but no cases of polio from the vaccine have appeared.
Date: April 27, 1955
Duration: 3 minutes 52 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Most kids taking Salk polio shots]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about mass polio vaccinations of Fort Worth school children. Public health officials report that only a few parents have revoked permission for their children to receive the shot.
Date: May 3, 1955
Duration: 1 minute 04 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Mass vaccination for polio planned]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about the plans of the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis to provide a mass polio vaccination.
Date: January 4, 1955
Duration: 2 minutes 58 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Decision due soon on polio vaccine]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about the Salk polio vaccine.
Date: March 22, 1955
Duration: 1 minute 16 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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