[News Script: Hijack]

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Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story.

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[1] p. ; 28 cm.

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WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.) October 31, 1969, 10:00 p.m.

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This script is part of the collection entitled: KXAS-NBC 5 News Collection and was provided by the UNT Libraries Special Collections to The Portal to Texas History, a digital repository hosted by the UNT Libraries. More information about this script can be viewed below.

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Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story.

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[1] p. ; 28 cm.

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Transcript of script: [The hijacked T-W-A jetliner has landed in Rome after flying 5,900 miles across the United States, the Atlantic Ocean and Western Europe.
The Boeing 707 touched down at Rome’s (Fiumicino) International Airport after being forced to fly at rifle-point the longest air hijack route on record.
The lights on the white and red plane were darkened after the landing. And the big craft taxied to the airport’s main terminal, and beyond.
The Young rifle-toting gunman had demanded before the jet set down that he be met by Rome’s police chief, un-armed, and with a car.
The jetliner circled the airport for at least 20 minutes before landing.
The chief of airport police was standing by in a car to board the plane, if possible.
The demand that he be met by the city’s police chief was believed in some way connected with the fact that the fugitive from a marine corps courtmartial is a native-born Italian…and that his father reportedly still resided in Naples.]

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  • Preferred Citation: NBC 5/KXAS News Scripts (AR0787), University of North Texas Special Collections

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  • October 31, 1969, 10:00 p.m.

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  • March 21, 2019, 3:26 p.m.

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WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.). [News Script: Hijack], script, October 31, 1969, 10:00 p.m.; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc1218230/: accessed July 8, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting UNT Libraries Special Collections.

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