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[News Script: Beef Day]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the town of Vernon serving steak to the public.
Date: April 17, 1973
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: White]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about a barbecue in Vernon, Texas. Ranchers, farmers, and livestock feeders held the barbecue to show their appreciation to residents who continued to buy meat inspire of a boycott.
Date: April 20, 1973, 6:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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Oral History Interview with Keith Naylor, April 2, 1971

Description: Interview with Keith Naylor, a Texas National Guard WWII veteran and POW from Vernon, Texas, who was captured with 2nd Battalion, 131st Field Artillery (the "Lost Battalion") on Java by the Japanese. Naylor discusses joining the Guard, deployment to the Pacific and the war's start, operations at Malang on Java, the American surrender, experiences in internment at Tanjung Priok and Bicycle Camp in Batavia, transfer to Changi Camp in Singapore, work on the Burma Railway, internment at Chungkai an… more
Date: April 2, 1971
Creator: Marcello, Ronald E.
Partner: UNT Oral History Program
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