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[News Script: Suspect flies]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a burglary suspect in the hospital after jumping from a window of the Dallas Police Department.
Date: March 27, 1973
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[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.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Girl escapes]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about two girls escaping the state girls training school.
Date: October 30, 1957
Duration: 37 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
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.)
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.)
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.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Pete continues to elude hunters]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about a python named Pete that escaped from Fort Worth's Forest Park Zoo.
Date: September 21, 1954
Duration: 2 minutes 46 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Convicts]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about four men escaping the Seagoville Correctional Institution and being recaptured.
Date: April 9, 1954
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Car thief]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about Fort Worth police embarking on a two hour man-hunt for Patrick Henry Martinez after he stole their patrol car.
Date: April 7, 1957
Duration: 2 minutes 13 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
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.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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