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[News Clip: Trusty saws out of Tarrant jail]

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Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about an imprisoned criminal at Tarrant County Jail sawing through the bars of a fifth floor window and escaping via a makeshift rope. The escapee, robbery suspect Sidney Wallace Pitman, is still on the loose.

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1 film (1 min., 7 sec.): si., b&w ; 16 mm.

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WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.) January 30, 1955.

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Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about an imprisoned criminal at Tarrant County Jail sawing through the bars of a fifth floor window and escaping via a makeshift rope. The escapee, robbery suspect Sidney Wallace Pitman, is still on the loose.

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1 film (1 min., 7 sec.): si., b&w ; 16 mm.

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  • Preferred Citation: NBC 5/KXAS Television News Collection (AR0776), University of North Texas Special Collections

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[News Script: Trusty saws out of Tarrant jail]

Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about an imprisoned criminal at Tarrant County Jail sawing through the bars of a fifth floor window and escaping via a makeshift rope. The escapee, robbery suspect Sidney Wallace Pitman, is still on the loose.

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  • January 30, 1955

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WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.). [News Clip: Trusty saws out of Tarrant jail], video, January 30, 1955; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc1940819/: accessed June 26, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting UNT Libraries Special Collections.

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