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[News Script: Patrolman killed]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a speeding car chase that resulted in the death of state highway patrolman Milton D. Brooks of Grand Prairie.
Date: January 2, 1955
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Script
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Bomb death trial on live television]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about the trial of Harry Washburn, who was accused of killing his former mother-in-law by planting a bomb in her car, being televised. The trial was the first murder trial to appear on television.
Date: December 6, 1955
Duration: 3 minutes 54 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: Family of five dies in Dallas tragedy]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about a Dallas ex-convict and U.S. Army veteran murdering his wife and three children before fatally shooting himself inside a drugstore.
Date: December 13, 1955
Duration: 5 minutes 29 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: Four arrested in Clark death probe]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about four people being arrested in connection with the two-year-old slaying of William P. Clark.
Date: April 7, 1955
Duration: 4 minutes 11 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: Blast wrecks home, kills one, hurts 2]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about a gas explosion destroying a Fort Worth home, killing a young boy and injuring his mother and sister.
Date: October 16, 1955
Duration: 1 minute 31 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: Killer of police officer is hunted]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about the search for the murderers of Fort Worth police officer Marvin E. Wills.
Date: December 26, 1955
Duration: 4 minutes 14 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: Sky wheel death]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about a teenage girl falling to her death from a ride at the State Fair of Texas in Dallas after it malfunctioned and fell 50 feet.
Date: October 11, 1955
Duration: 2 minutes 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: Three crewmen die in crash of B-47]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about the mysterious crash of a B-47 from Biggs Air Force Base that left three men dead.
Date: November 9, 1955
Duration: 2 minutes 13 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Video
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Dead worker]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about Charles C. Edwards being fatally injured while excavating the old Dallas News building.
Date: June 9, 1955
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Script
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Elephant dies in crash]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a circus hand and an elephant dying in an automobile crash on highway 75 north of Dallas.
Date: May 22, 1955
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Script
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Negro given life on murder charge]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about James Edward Williams receiving a sentence of life in prison for the murder of his foreman, Adolf Albert Pfoff in Fort Worth.
Date: April 26, 1955
Duration: 1 minute
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: Negro boy drowns in Dallas pond]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about a thirteen-year-old boy drowning in a small lake east of Fair Park in Dallas.
Date: April 28, 1955
Duration: 1 minute 02 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: Drowning]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about the accidental drowning of Curtis Burns and the suicidal drowning of Albert Roach.
Date: May 1, 1955
Duration: 2 minutes
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: Man found dead in YMCA pool]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about the discovery of the body of Llewellyn L. Radford at the Dallas YMCA pool, where he worked.
Date: May 4, 1955
Duration: 39 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: Hagler free on bond]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about the release of David F. Hagler from jail on bond, which he was in for the slaying of an unidentified man in Oklahoma in a possible insurance swindle plot.
Date: May 5, 1955
Duration: 1 minute 56 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: 1 dead score hurt in Texas storms]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about a series of severe wind and hail storms striking across a wide area in North Texas, leaving at least one dead, several injured, and millions of dollars in property damage.
Date: April 6, 1955
Duration: 4 minutes 24 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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