[News Script: Santa death]

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Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about construction superintendent Roy V. Davis falling to his death during a photoshoot in front of a 50-foot Santa Claus statue he had helped to build.

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2 p. ; 28 cm.

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WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.) December 10, 1953.

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Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about construction superintendent Roy V. Davis falling to his death during a photoshoot in front of a 50-foot Santa Claus statue he had helped to build.

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2 p. ; 28 cm.

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

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  • December 10, 1953

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WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.). [News Script: Santa death], script, December 10, 1953; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc726021/: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting UNT Libraries Special Collections.

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