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[News Script: Briefs]

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about British prime minister Harold Wilson' s new labor government which has chalked up it' s first victory and it' s initial objective settlement of the nationwide coal miner strike.

Date: March 6, 1974, 10:00 p.m.

Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)

Item Type: Script

Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: POW' s Ramians]

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about an American air force plane which carried the bodies of 11 more American prisoners of war from Hanoi to Thailand .

Date: March 13, 1974, 12:00 p.m.

Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)

Item Type: Script

Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

Oral History Interview with W. L. Starnes, April 2, 1974

Interview with W. L. Starnes, a businessman, an Army veteran (2nd Battalion, 131st Field Artillery, Texas National Guard), and a member of the "Lost Battalion," concerning his experiences as a prisoner-of-war of the Japanese during World War II. Starnes talks about the fall of Java and his capture, Bicycle Camp in Batavia (1942), Changi Prison Camp in Singapore (1942), building the Burma-Thailand Death Railway (1942-1944), Kanchanaburi, Thailand (1944), Saigon and Da Lat, French Indo-China (194… more

Date: April 2, 1974

Creator: Marcello, Ronald E. & Starnes, W. L., 1919-

Item Type: Book

Partner: UNT Oral History Program

Oral History Interview with Lawrence Brown, March 13, 1974

Interview with Lawrence Brown, a Texas National Guard WWII veteran and POW from Decatur, Texas. Brown was a captured member of 2nd Battalion, 131st Field Artillery Regiment (the "Lost Battalion"): he recounts working during the Depression; mobilization; deployment to the Philippines and diversion to Brisbane after December 7th, 1941; arrival at Sangosari, Java; the Japanese invasion and American surrender; experiences in internment at Bicycle Camp in Batavia, Changi Camp in Singapore, several w… more

Date: March 13, 1974

Creator: Marcello, Ronald E. & Brown, Lawrence