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[News Script: Trusty saws out of Tarrant jail]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about an imprisoned criminal at Tarrant County Jail sawing through the bars of a fifth floor window and escaping via a makeshift rope. The escapee, robbery suspect Sidney Wallace Pitman, is still on the loose.
Date: January 30, 1955
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: Rescues]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about a rescue scene on the street.
Date: August 17, 1955
Duration: 59 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: Plane crash lands near Love Field]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about a plane crash landing four miles north of Love Field. Neither the pilot nor the passenger were harmed.
Date: July 31, 1955
Duration: 31 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: Trusty saws out of Tarrant jail]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about an imprisoned criminal at Tarrant County Jail sawing through the bars of a fifth floor window and escaping via a makeshift rope. The escapee, robbery suspect Sidney Wallace Pitman, is still on the loose.
Date: January 30, 1955
Duration: 1 minute 08 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: 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

[News Script: News Briefs - Escape artist]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about Leonard J. Williams, a frequent escapee from prison, going before a judge to get out of a 20-year sentence due to coercion in his testimony.
Date: November 17, 1955
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: News Briefs - Escape artist]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about Leonard J. Williams, a frequent escapee from prison, going before a judge to get out of a 20-year sentence due to coercion in his testimony.
Date: November 17, 1955
Duration: 46 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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