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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.)
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.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[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.)
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.)
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.)
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.)
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.)
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.)
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.)
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.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Costa in polio ward]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about shortstop Billy Cost of the Houston Buffaloes staying in a Fort Worth polio ward with bulbar type polio.
Date: August 22, 1951
Duration: 26 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Telephone]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about an unexpected walkout affecting the Dallas office of the Southwestern Bell Telephone Company.
Date: April 27, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Civitan Club gets polio inoculations]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the Cowtown Civitan Club of Fort Worth taking a double-barreled swing at polio by donating 250 dollars to the March of Dimes and then vaccinating their members against the disease.
Date: January 17, 1957
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Polio mother]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about Mrs. Lloyd R. Erwin raising her two children from a wheel chair due to being stricken with bulbar spinal polio in 1951 and being named Dallas Polio Mother of the Year.
Date: January 10, 1957
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Polio - review]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about Denton county attempting to inoculate every school student in the county with the polio vaccine.
Date: February 16, 1957
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Salk polio shots start this week]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a large shipment of Dr. Jonas Salk's new polio vaccine arriving at Carswell Air Force Base in Fort Worth, to be distributed among children at local schools. Another shipment of vaccines arrives at Grand Prairie's Hensley Field, carrying enough medicine for Dallas and the surrounding counties.
Date: April 17, 1955
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Entertainers to aid golf benefit]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a celebrity charity benefit golf tournament at the Brookhollow Country Club in Dallas, funding the Gonzales Warm Springs Polio Foundation.
Date: September 15, 1954
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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