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[Mountain Boy with Shotgun]

Description: Photograph of Jimmy Powell in Cumberland Gap, Tennessee. Powell is standing on a harvested mountainside, holding a shotgun towards the ground during sunrise while the clouds hang low to the ground below the hill tops. Photographs from this series were featured in Life Magazine and titled "Mountain Boy."
Date: July 9, 1955
Creator: Clark, Joe
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Photograph of young Byrd Williams IV in a tree]

Description: Photograph of young Byrd Williams IV climbing a tree. He looks off to the left, away from the camera, and holds on to the limb that he is straddling. He wears a blue, collared shirt under a white sweater vest, cuffed jeans, and cowboy boots. An open, grassy lawn stretched out behind him. Some trees and buildings are visible in the distance.
Date: [1955..1965]
Creator: Williams, Byrd M. (Byrd Moore), III
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Grand jury probe of shooting due]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about a Fort Worth man surrendering to Tarrant County sheriffs after firing upon a group of youths with a pistol as they attempted to break into his car, wounding two.
Date: April 24, 1955
Duration: 1 minute 27 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Cleburne receives Santa Fe engine]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about the Santa Fe railroad company presenting an antique steam locomotive to the town of Cleburne, to be placed as a monument in one of the city's parks.
Date: April 26, 1955
Duration: 1 minute 28 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Collegians begin annual air meet]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about the beginning of the annual meeting of the National Intercollegiate Flying Association.
Date: May 6, 1955
Duration: 1 minute 42 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Tiny tots stage Easter parade]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about children of Fort Worth's Ridglea Country Club members staging an Easter parade.
Date: April 10, 1955
Duration: 1 minute 09 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Boy escapes serious injury in freak accident]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about a boy in Fort Worth narrowly escaping serious injury after his bike crashed in front of a moving tractor. The tractor passed over the boy without harming him.
Date: March 4, 1955
Duration: 35 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Boxing]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about a boxing match in Dallas.
Date: March 9, 1955
Duration: 1 minute 06 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: False alarm shooting]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about a man falsely reporting to Fort Worth police that he had been shot.
Date: March 16, 1955
Duration: 48 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Jimmy Powell the Mountain Boy (1)]

Description: Narrative by Junebug Clark: Photograph of Jimmy Powell, laying down, shirtless, on top a mountain in Cumberland Gap, Tennessee. In the image a farm can be seen on the next hill and Powell has a shotgun, almost the size of his body, laying next to him and his hunting dog off in the distance On the bottom of the image, "Lazy Bones," is handwritten. Joe never had photographs of himself growing up in Tennessee. He returned many times to photograph Jimmy and create an "Autobiographical" series of wh… more
Date: July 9, 1955
Creator: Clark, Joe
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Boy is drowned near tank in Dallas]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about a 12-year-old boy drowning in a Dallas stock tank.
Date: September 26, 1955
Duration: 1 minute 23 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Dallas boy slain]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about a young boy in Dallas confessing to police that he accidentally shot and killed another boy while trying to scare him.
Date: May 3, 1955
Duration: 1 minute 02 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Pig show (literally)]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about the annual 4-H Club Swine Show at Fair Park in Dallas.
Date: September 9, 1955
Duration: 1 minute 30 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Photograph of Byrd Williams IV sitting on the floor]

Description: Photograph of young Byrd Williams IV in a living room. He kneels down on the patterned carpet and turns around to face the camera with a smile. He wears a long-sleeved western-style shirt and pants. A woman with rollers in her hair sits on the floor across from him and looks down at the plaid fabric in her lap. She wears a short-sleeved gingham-print dress. A stack of folded linens rests on a wooden coffee table in the foreground. A chair and another table are partially visible sitting against … more
Date: [1955..1965]
Creator: Williams, Byrd M. (Byrd Moore), III
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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