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[News Clip: Disputed school vote canvassed]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about Judge Lew Sterrett canvassing an election that abolished the Farmers Branch school district.
Date: May 4, 1954
Duration: 1 minute 44 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: New SMU president named]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about Dr. Willis M. Tate becoming the new president of SMU.
Date: May 6, 1954
Duration: 1 minute 38 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: Legion elects new officers]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about Texas Legionnaires electing a new state commander, E.L. Jackson.
Date: August 1, 1954
Duration: 46 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: Pleasant Grove school election]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about the suburban community of Pleasant Grove, southeast of Dallas, voting to join the Dallas Independent School District.
Date: August 15, 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
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[News Clip: Yarborough seeks Ft. Worth votes]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about Ralph Yarborough, running for Governor against Allen Shivers.
Date: August 24, 1954
Duration: 44 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: CIO support for Yarborough denied]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about the CIO Communications Workers of America, a labor union, declining to endorse a candidate in the Democratic runoff for Texas governor between Governor Allan Shivers and Ralph Yarborough.
Date: August 31, 1954
Duration: 1 minute 38 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Video
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

Special 10 minutes Spanish for Ralph Yarborough

Description: Text of Dr. Hector P. Garcia's radio speech endorsing Ralph Yarborough for Governor of Texas. Garcia relates some of the medical problems of Latinos in Texas, which he believes Yarborough will take seriously and work to alleviate, unlike Governor Allan Shivers.
Date: July 14, 1954
Creator: Garcia, Hector P., -1996
Item Type: Refine your search to only Text
Partner: Hoston History Research Center at Houston Public Library

Special 10 minutes Spanish for Ralph Yarbough

Description: Text of a speech to be given over the radio in support of Texas gubernatorial candidate Ralph Yarborough by Dr. Hector P. Garcia. Garcia relates some of the medical problems of Latinos in Texas, which he believes Yarborough will take seriously and work to alleviate, unlike Governor Allan Shivers.
Date: July 14, 1954
Creator: Garcia, Hector P., -1996
Item Type: Refine your search to only Text
Partner: Hoston History Research Center at Houston Public Library

John Herrera wants tighter insurance laws

Description: Newspaper clipping about John J. Herrera published in the Houston Chronicle on July 9, 1954. The article, entitled "John Herrera Wants Tighter Insurance Laws", discusses Herrera's history and experience as well as his commitment to tighter insurance laws if elected to legislature. The clipping also includes a photograph of Herrera.
Date: July 9, 1954
Item Type: Refine your search to only Clipping
Partner: Hoston History Research Center at Houston Public Library

Draft of Political Letter - "To My Friends and Votors in Precinct 12" - July, 1954

Description: A draft of a form letter written by T. N. Carswell, dated July 1954. Carswell recounts the events of the 1952 campaign and election stressing the need to repeat in 1954 their 1952 victory, by the election of Allan Shivers. He borrows from a statement by Benjamin Harvey Hill, "Who saves his country, saves himself, saves all things, and all things saved do bless him! Who lets his country die, lets all things die, dies himself ignobly, and all things dying curse him!"
Date: July 1954
Creator: Carswell, T. N. (Thomas Norwood)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Letter
Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library

[Letter and List of Texas Newspapers: From T. N. Carswell "to the Editor" regarding Judge Ralph Yarborough]

Description: A letter To the Editor, written by T. N. Carswell, Abilene, Texas, dated August 19, 1954. The letter asserts that "'Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde', has come to Texas, not in fiction, but in the person as Judge Ralph Yarborough, candidate for Governor." An attachment includes a list of Texas newspapers to receive the Letter to the Editor written by T. N. Carswell. The list is handwritten on business notepad paper advertising Maxwell Steel Co., Fort Worth 1, Texas.
Date: August 19, 1954
Creator: Carswell, T. N. (Thomas Norwood)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Letter
Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library

[Correspondence between Truett Latimer and Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Jarrett, March 31, 1954]

Description: Correspondence between Truett Latimer and Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Jarrett wherein Latimer is asking the Jarrett's support as he runs for re-election to the position of state representative. W. E. Jarrett has written back on the bottom of the same letter, joking that he will vote for him in re-election as long as Latimer marries "that pretty girl".
Date: March 31, 1954
Creator: Latimer, Truett & Jarrett, W. E.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Letter
Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library
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