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Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about children from the Tarrant County Children's Home in Fort Worth on the annual shopping tour of Seminary South, sponsored by the Fort Worth Jaycees; 6 year old Danny "Short Ribs" Swinny was given $5 to purchase presents for his 2 older brothers in the home, and purchases live turtles, a piggy bank, a horse shoe set, a necklace, a harmonica, a bill fold, and some peppermint candy.
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Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about children from the Tarrant County Children's Home in Fort Worth on the annual shopping tour of Seminary South, sponsored by the Fort Worth Jaycees; 6 year old Danny "Short Ribs" Swinny was given $5 to purchase presents for his 2 older brothers in the home, and purchases live turtles, a piggy bank, a horse shoe set, a necklace, a harmonica, a bill fold, and some peppermint candy.
Video footage from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about children from the Tarrant County Children's Home in Fort Worth on the annual shopping tour of Seminary South
WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.).[News Script: Orphans shopping spree],
script,
December 12, 1964;
(https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc969756/:
accessed July 2, 2024),
University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.;
crediting UNT Libraries Special Collections.