Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the Polar Bear Division of the Yacht Club of Fort Worth, whose 15 members have pledged to spend at least 3 minutes each month water-skiing - or forfeit $26; The reporter makes it clear how he feels about the whole thing, and how crazy the members are for pledging to what he calls a "suicide pact" to go water-skiing at Eagle Mountain Lake in 35 degree weather.
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Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the Polar Bear Division of the Yacht Club of Fort Worth, whose 15 members have pledged to spend at least 3 minutes each month water-skiing - or forfeit $26; The reporter makes it clear how he feels about the whole thing, and how crazy the members are for pledging to what he calls a "suicide pact" to go water-skiing at Eagle Mountain Lake in 35 degree weather.
WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.).[News Script: Polar bear idiots],
script,
December 10, 1961;
(https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc976732/:
accessed July 16, 2024),
University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.;
crediting UNT Libraries Special Collections.