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[News Script: Jail trouble]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the assault on jailer J.D. Crane and the subsequent escape attempt from Tarrant County jail by W. P. Donis and Ray McDonald.
Date: December 12, 1960
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Script
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Cubans]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about 4 Cuban refugees in Fort Worth; Brothers Ignacio and Vicente Perez, Louis Canizares and Jose Gonzales were on their way to California to find jobs when they broke down in Fort Worth and liked it so much they decided to stay. The youths left Cuba to escape serving in Castro's militia, two of them escaping in a rented rowboat with 3 others and rowing and drifting the 100 miles to Miami.
Date: December 21, 1961
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Script
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Ramirez]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the capture of escaped prisoner Daniel Ramirez after a month-long search; Ramirez is serving a 50 year sentence for his part in the gang rape of a 12 year old girl in 1959, and escaped from the Harlem Unit of the Texas Prison System near Sugarland with another convict named Ernest Lopez, who is serving a life term for his part in the rape-killing of a 12 year old girl in 1956. Lopez is still at large.
Date: December 24, 1962
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Script
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Jailbreak]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a jailbreak, the first at the new Tarrant County Jail; of the two escaped trustees, 21 year old Charles Ison of Fort Worth is captured quickly, while 28 year old Doyle Wooden of Bossier City, Louisiana remains at large.
Date: December 6, 1964
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Script
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Pierson returned to state hospital]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about the recapture of Howard Merritt Pierson, a criminally insane man who murdered both his parents, after three years on the run as an escapee from an Austin mental institution. Pierson, who was captured in Syracuse, New York, is returned to an institution in Texas.
Date: December 19, 1955
Duration: 1 minute 09 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Video
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Escape artist sent back to Alcatraz]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about convict Leonard J. Williams, sent to Dallas for a hearing, returned to Alcatraz Prison in California.
Date: December 4, 1955
Duration: 1 minute 32 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Video
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Escaper returned to jail, sentenced]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about ex-convict Sidney Wallace Pittman being found and arrested after escaping from jail five months prior.
Date: December 12, 1955
Duration: 1 minute 03 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Video
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Terrible Desperado Captured by Fosdicks]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about prison fugitive Norman Davenport being captured by police in Arlington after seducing the young wife of a New Mexico rancher and terrorizing his cousin and her family in Fort Worth.
Date: December 27, 1953
Duration: 1 minute 21 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Video
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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