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[News Script: Four Injured]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a butane gas explosion that injured four people in Dallas, Texas.
Date: August 6, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: South Dallas Shooting]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the murder of Louis Arthur Koerber, who was shot to death in the Dallas home of his estranged wife.
Date: September 6, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Missing girl safe, abductor is jailed]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV television station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story about a missing young girl rescued by Fort Worth police after her abduction by a man, who is arrested for molesting her.
Date: May 30, 1956
Duration: 56 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Cousins Drowned in Trinity River]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story about the drowning deaths of eighteen-year-old Mike Lathrop and his cousin, eight-year-old Carolyn Rhyan. The video shows the bodies being taken away from the river. The second half of the clip covers a news story about retired Army Captain William Cox petitioning President Eisenhower to grant clemency to a marine sergeant that was court-martialed for the deaths of six trainees.
Date: August 7, 1956
Duration: 3 minutes 55 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Injured Boy Visits Policemen Friends]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about Clarence Sexton, Jr., a four-year-old boy who has made friends with the police who established a fund to help pay his hospital bills.
Date: January 11, 1956
Duration: 1 minute 02 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Mrs. America]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV television station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story about Ramona Deitemeyer, Mrs. America of 1955, visiting the Dallas Automobile Show at Fair Park.
Date: February 12, 1956
Duration: 24 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Gus Courts]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about civil rights figure Gus Courts arriving in Dallas after leaving his Mississippi home due to racial violence.
Date: March 28, 1956
Duration: 3 minutes 34 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Policeman hopes to adopt orphan]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about Fort Worth police officer Earnest Forister, attempting to adopt David Massey, after investigating the death of the boy's mother, his last relative able to care for him.
Date: March 30, 1956
Duration: 1 minute 31 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

Texas Genealogical Records, Ellis County, Volume 9, 1775-1956

Description: Genealogical Records of Ellis County, Texas contain various lists of records (births, deaths, marriages, etc.) taken from family Bibles, cemetery and church records, wills, and other relevant sources. Index starts on page 219.
Date: 1956
Creator: Daughters of the American Revolution. Rebecca Boyce Chapter (Waxahachie, Tex.). Genealogical Records Committee.
Partner: Nicholas P. Sims Library
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[News Clip: Hose Burrowing Itself in Ground]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about a garden hose that has been burrowed in the ground at the home of John R. Lopez in River Oaks. Other cases of burrowed hoses have been reported in DFW
Date: November 14, 1956
Duration: 42 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: News Briefs -- Korean Orphan]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about the adoption of a Korean orphan to a family in Oklahoma.
Date: December 18, 1956
Duration: 48 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Negro Kid]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about an unclaimed boy found at the Dallas bus station after arriving from Austin, Texas. The mother was late to pick him up and the boy was already in custody, they were reunited shortly after.
Date: December 23, 1956
Duration: 1 minute 07 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: 16 Left Homeless In Residence Fire]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about a two-alarm fire that destroyed a duplex leaving two families homeless.
Date: December 26, 1956
Duration: 55 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Four Injured]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story about a gas explosion that wounded four people in Dallas. The video shows two wounded men in the emergency room, their families, and the damage that was caused to their property.
Date: August 6, 1956
Duration: 2 minutes 04 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clips from August 20, 1956]

Description: Video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story about locating a six year old boy named King Lear, who was bitten by a dog that was later determined to be rabid, a murder-suicide that orphaned three young boys, and postponing the trial of Frank Sexton because the jury pool was too small to try a death penalty case.
Date: August 20, 1956
Duration: 3 minutes 40 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: South Dallas Shooting ; City Worker Killed When Ditch Caves In]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering two news stories. The first is about the murder of Louis Arthur Koerber, who was shot to death in the Dallas home of his estranged wife. Second is a story about the death of a Fort Worth water department worker, William F. Russell from the caving-in of a ditch.
Date: September 6, 1956
Duration: 2 minutes 16 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

Legett Family Record

Description: Copy of an attachment mailed to Mr. W.R. Nettles, who then mailed it to Mrs. Percy Jones. The attachment includes a history and genealogical record of the Legett family.
Date: February 14, 1956
Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library
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