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[News Script: Polio test plans are explained]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about Tarrant County's plans to administer the polio vaccine to nearly 9,000 second graders. The mass vaccination would be performed by volunteer doctors, who were to be assisted by local mothers.
Date: March 30, 1954
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Santa for Dallas orphans]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about Dallas county foster children receiving presents from Santa Claus at children's homes around the region.
Date: December 19, 1951
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Polio]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the polio treatment efforts of the Gonzalez Warm Springs Foundation.
Date: April 17, 1953
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Dimes drive]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the annual March of Dimes fundraising campaign in Fort Worth and Dallas, with various charity events and fund drives held across both cities.
Date: January 16, 1951
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: News briefs

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering two news stories. The first story is about the wife of a missionary in Arabia stricken with polio and transported back home to Fort Worth with help from the National Polio Foundation. The second story is about a Fort Worth woman confessing to drowning her young daughter.
Date: February 13, 1951
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Costa in polio ward]

Description: Script 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
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Halloween at polio ward]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a Halloween party sponsored by the Junior Chamber of Commerce for polio patients at Fort Worth's City-County Hospital.
Date: November 1, 1951
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Priest ordained]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the first ordination ceremony of a Catholic priest ever held in Fort Worth, for Fr. Reginald Kelly, a World War II veteran and polio survivor.
Date: June 1, 1951
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Doctor receives variety award]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about an award presented to Dr. Karl F. Meyer by the Variety Clubs International organization at a party in Dallas, recognizing his research toward the development of a polio vaccine.
Date: March 25, 1954
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Polio mothers money]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about fundraising and awareness campaigns in Dallas as part of the March of Dimes fight against polio.
Date: January 19, 1954
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Polio]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a Fort Worth medical committee meeting to discuss the polio inoculation program.
Date: April 30, 1954
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Polio vaccine]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the first shipment of Dr. Jonas Salk's experimental polio vaccine arriving in Tarrant and Dallas Counties, with controversy over whether the shot should be administered to grade school students.
Date: April 29, 1954
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Wrestlers]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a group of professional wrestlers in Fort Worth performing to raise money for the March of Dimes polio fund.
Date: February 2, 1954
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Mile of Dimes campaign opens]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the Fort Worth Elks opening their annual Mile of Dimes campaign with four-year-old polio victim Shirley Ann King cutting the ceremonial ribbon.
Date: December 3, 1953
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

Mothers at Rehab - Polio Campaign #1

Description: Photograph of a group of three women kneeling beside boxes full of packages of peanuts. Behind the women, a man in a military uniform is leaning towards the peanut packages. Behind the people, there are closed boxes lined up in a row with a sign on top of them that says "Fight Polio Join The March of Dimes." Text on the packages of peanuts says "Fight Polio with Peanuts."
Date: 1956
Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library

Mothers at Rehab - Polio Campaign

Description: Photograph of a group of three women kneeling beside boxes full of packages of peanuts. In the background, there are closed boxes lined up in a row with a sign on top of them that says "Fight Polio Join The March of Dimes." Text on the packages of peanuts says "Fight Polio with Peanuts."
Date: 1956
Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library

People Filling Up Polio Balloons

Description: Photograph of a group of airmen, firemen, and civilian volunteers filling balloons to be used in a polio drive. Several firemen are filling the balloons from an air hose. A young girl and two adult males are holding large bundles of balloons to the right of the picture. On each balloon is the saying, "POLIO FIGHTERS."
Date: 1955
Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library
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