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[News Script: Gorilla]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the arrival of a 16-pound baby girl gorilla, from New York, at Forest Park Zoo in Fort Worth, Texas.
Date: September 7, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Alligator escapes, spoils VFW gesture]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about an alligator that was meant to be a gift from J. T. Lindenberg of the Dallas chapter of Veterans of Foreign Wars. The alligator was meant to be donated to the James R. Record Aquarium in Fort Worth, but it fell out of the car in which it was being transported and was hit by another vehicle.
Date: July 15, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Snakes]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a new bushmaster snake at the Forest Park zoo. Harry Jackson, a herpetologist, is in charge of the snake.
Date: July 17, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Zoo]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV television station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story about Fort Worth's Forest Park Zoo trading three of its alligators to the Oklahoma City Zoo for a companion for their kangaroo.
Date: May 24, 1956
Duration: 57 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: New bird]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a new cassowary bird arriving at the Forest Park Zoo in Fort Worth.
Date: January 4, 1957
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Steer]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a longhorn arriving at the Forest Park zoo in Fort Worth.
Date: October 21, 1954
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Snake at zoo]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about treating the python at the Forest Park Zoo for an infected jaw.
Date: August 18, 1954
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Zoo]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about the Fort Worth zoo building water fowls a new exhibit.
Date: December 17, 1958
Duration: 1 minute 18 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Lion cub]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about the new addition to the zoo, a lion cub who is just five months old. His name is Tuffy and was previously the mascot of the Parker County Sheriff's Posse.
Date: December 4, 1958
Duration: 1 minute 17 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Raccoons]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about an albino raccoon at Fort Worth's Forest Park Zoo.
Date: April 23, 1958
Duration: 1 minute 53 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Orangutans]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about the apes at the Forest Park zoo being moved into the newly-completed Great Ape House.
Date: March 2, 1956
Duration: 1 minute 01 second
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Gibbons perform in new zoo ape house]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about the Forest Park Zoo in Fort Worth's latest addition: four Gibbons.
Date: March 6, 1956
Duration: 1 minute 04 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Elephant]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a 34th birthday celebration for Queen Tut, an elephant at Fort Worth's Forest Park Zoo.
Date: August 12, 1953
Duration: 1 minute 24 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Condor arrives at zoo]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about a condor donated to Fort Worth's Forest Park Zoo by a local business.
Date: January 10, 1953
Duration: 43 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Country life excites country rattlers]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about Fort Worth's Forest Park Zoo receiving 15 new rattlesnakes from Montague County.
Date: April 5, 1957
Duration: 57 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: New birds at Ft. Worth Zoo]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about new arrivals in the bird house at the Forest Park Zoo in Fort Worth.
Date: November 9, 1957
Duration: 2 minutes 16 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Snakes]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about Harry Jackson introducing king cobras to the Forest Park Zoo in Fort Worth.
Date: June 7, 1958
Duration: 1 minute 41 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Python]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about the deceased Pete the Python being stuffed by a local taxidermist.
Date: February 24, 1958
Duration: 1 minute 50 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Pete]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about Fort Worth's Pete the Python being treated for malnutrition after laying a clutch of eggs.
Date: February 19, 1958
Duration: 1 minute 25 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Dallas Zoo gets bird (two eyed)]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about the Dallas Zoo getting a 4-year-old cassowary.
Date: January 16, 1958
Duration: 1 minute 42 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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