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[News Clip: Ike in Texas to talk drouth]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about a state governors arriving in Amarillo to prepare for a visit by President Dwight D. Eisenhower to discuss the current severe drought conditions in the Southwest.
Date: July 10, 1953
Duration: 1 minute 52 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Conley returns]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV television station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story about Louis Bob Conley being released from jail and being reunited with his daughter.
Date: July 26, 1953
Duration: 1 minute 36 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Amarillo (flood)]

Description: B-roll video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story.
Date: July 30, 1982, 6:00 p.m.
Duration: 1 minute 04 seconds
Creator: KXAS-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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Oral History Interview with Lilia Escajeda, July 6, 2016

Description: Lilia Escajeda was born in El Paso, Texas. She grew up between El Paso, Van Horn, and Amarillo; and she remembers going to segregated schools in Van Horn. She settled in Amarillo as an adult after her husband died, and she eventually became the first female loan-officer for any bank in Amarillo, at the Amarillo National Bank. She joined various community organizations, boards, and became both the first Mexican American women Amarillo College board member and City Commissioner (later City Counci… more
Date: July 6, 2016
Duration: 41 minutes 14 seconds
Creator: Escajeda, Lilia; Wisely, Karen & Zapata, Joel
Partner: TCU Mary Couts Burnett Library
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Oral History Interview with Patricia Thomas, July 31, 2016

Description: Patricia A. Thomas was born in 1957 in Andrews, Texas, where she grew up. She entered elementary school in an integrated school where many of her classmates as well as some teachers physically and verbally abused the African American students. Thomas first attended Lincoln Elementary and then Jack and Jill Elementary. In junior high and high school, Thomas adapted many black nationalists or “radical” viewpoints, which led her to call for the teaching of African American history in her high scho… more
Date: July 31, 2016
Duration: 44 minutes 17 seconds
Creator: Zapata, Joel & Thomas, Patricia
Partner: TCU Mary Couts Burnett Library
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