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[News Script: Cop gets car]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a polio-stricken Fort Worth police officer getting a new car with automatic transmission, so that he can use it.
Date: June 7, 1953
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: 15 year old wounds friend accidentally]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about an accidental shooting in Fort Worth that resulted in Douglas Tucker being shot in the chest.
Date: April 7, 1957
Duration: 1 minute 10 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Miss Cheese visits hospital polio ward]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about Margaret Walls, Miss Cheese, visiting the polio ward at John Peter Smith hospital in Fort Worth.
Date: December 7, 1955
Duration: 43 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Letter from the Franklin D. Roosevelt Birthday Memorial Committee to D. W. Kempner, September 7, 1949]

Description: Letter from the Franklin D. Roosevelt Birthday Memorial Committee to D. W. Kempner requesting his yearly contribution as well as help with acquiring more memberships to aid in fighting the polio epidemic. The membership request card is enclosed.
Date: September 7, 1949
Creator: Franklin D. Roosevelt Birthday Memorial Committee
Partner: Rosenberg Library
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[News Clip: Polio Driver]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about Wilbur Hale, who contracted polio, was now able to drive a car specifically designed to function without his arms.
Date: August 7, 1958
Duration: 1 minute 57 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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