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How Healthy is the Upper Trinity River?: Biological and Water Quality Perspectives

Description: This conference report contains discussions and papers from a symposium hosted at Texas Christian University, in Fort Worth, Texas, examining the ecological health of the Upper Trinity River, and the impacts of various human activity, such as agriculture, urbanization, and waste management. The papers cover the effect of water quality on urban rivers, long-term water quality trends in the Trinity River, solutions that may improve water quality in the river, as well as biological, agricultural … more
Date: 1990
Creator: Jensen, Ric
Partner: UNT Libraries
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[News Clip: Tree-Watering Device, Student Pilot Dies When Plane Crashes, News Briefs -- Patty, Pumpers Won't Drink Dallas Tap Water, Sonny Evans, Democrats, Gorilla]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story about a homemade tree-saving device, created by Fort Worth police detective T. M. Wood; Captain Charles Walker, a student pilot from Perrin Air Force Base, who crashed his T-33 jet training plane and died; the brief appearance of singer Patty Page in Dallas, Texas, en route to marry movie director Charles O'Curran; the salty drinking water in Dallas, which comes from the Red River; the arrest of teenager Sonn… more
Date: September 7, 1956
Duration: 10 minutes 59 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Medders Trial]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas relating a news story about a trial involving a couple, Ernest and Margaret Medders, who were accused of illegally selling mortgaged cattle.
Date: June 29, 1967
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Dallas Bus-Napping]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about Dallas bus getting hijacked. The bus driver had a longer route than usual days, a gun hijacked the carrier and ordered Eddie Holland- bus driver to make the long drive. The bus driver somehow escapes from the bus taking the keys with him. The search is still ongoing.
Date: July 4, 1973, 10:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Hijacked bus]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about Dallas city bus driver Eddie Holland who told Cooke county officers that a gunman hijacked his empty bus in Dallas.
Date: July 24, 1973, 6:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[Marshall Cope, 2017-18 TXSSAR & Chapter 7 Color Guard events]

Description: A document listing out the events that Marshall Cope attended as part of the TXSSAR, Arlington Chapter 7, Color Guard in 2017-2018. The dates, locations, and requirements are listed with each event. Some of the dates are highlighted in different colors to note if they are Chapter specific, Texas-wide, or National events.
Date: December 30, 2016
Creator: Cope, Jerry
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Fatal]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story of two people who were killed and ten others who were injured in a two-car collision.
Date: December 24, 1973, 6:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

Oral History Interview with Albert B. Thorn, July 25, 1990

Description: Interview with Albert Thorn concerning his experiences before, during, and after his employment in the Civilian Conservation Corps during the Great Depression. Thorn worked at camps in Lake Arthur, New Mexico (Company 2842) and Carlsbad, New Mexico (Company 2842).
Access: Restricted to UNT Community Members. Login required if off-campus.
Date: July 25, 1990
Creator: Marcello, Ronald E. & Thorn, Albert B.
Partner: UNT Oral History Program
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