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[News Script: Nix Sentence]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about the conviction of Kirksey McCord Nix, Frank Fulford, and Peter Mule for the murder of a New Orleans grocer during a holdup.
Date: January 7, 1974, 6:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Truckers]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story of the shutdown by independent truckers which reaches into 36 states, with thousands of workers idled in affected industries.
Date: February 5, 1974, 6:30 a.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Client Card: Miss Margo Allen]

Description: Client card describing work completed at the Roman Bronze Works Foundry for Miss Margo Allen, including a job number, brief description, monetary amount, and dates associated with each entry. Pieces include "Portrait Head" (14" x 6.5"), and "Head" (Black marble base 6" cube).
Date: 1951-10/1956-08
Creator: Roman Bronze Works Foundry
Partner: Amon Carter Museum

Vehicle-Brake.

Description: Patent for an improvement in automatic vehicle-brakes by using sliding rods that are movable within staples or guides and a brake-bar indirectly attached to the rear axle by means of a coiled spring. When the brake bar moves forward, it forces the break-shoes from contacting the wheels. When the brake bar moves backward, it forces the brake-shoes into contact with the wheels, thus stopping the vehicle. Illustration is included.
Date: March 3, 1891
Creator: Gregory, Joseph Pinkney
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

[News Script: Kent State and Indochina]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story of an ambulance driver who took two Ohio National Guardsmen to hospital after the 1970 Kent State Shootings. Also, about the fighting which have slowed down on Phnom Penh's southern front as bogged government task forces wait for artillery and air strikes to take effect.
Date: January 29, 1974, 6:30 a.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Letter from F. C. Hockema to T. N. Carswell - December 10, 1941]

Description: A letter written to Mr. T. N. Carswell, Parramore Post No. 57, American Legion, Abilene, Texas, from F. C. Hockema, Assistant to the President, Purdue University, Lafayette, Indiana, dated December 10, 1941. Hockema responds to the question "What is Americanism?" by drawing attention to the fact that Dr. Elliott is now in Washington, D. C. on defense activities.
Date: December 10, 1941
Creator: Hockema, F. C.
Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library

Churn

Description: Patent for a churn that can produce butter in very short period of time with minimal effort.
Date: May 19, 1913
Creator: Hoefer, Charles Jr.; Belt, Marcus L. Jr. & Belt, William R.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

[Letter from John F. Kennedy to William N. Purdy, December 6, 1962]

Description: Letter from John F. Kennedy to William N. Purdy thanking Purdy for his service on September 30th in Oxford, Mississippi. There is a note at the top of the letter reading, "Protected Blacks from KKK attack." The letter is on White House stationery.
Date: December 6, 1952
Creator: Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald), 1917-1963
Partner: Private Collection of Mario Marcel Salas
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