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[News Clip: Dallas children get polio serum]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about Dallas schoolchildren receiving the first of three polio vaccines.
Date: May 5, 1954
Duration: 1 minute 56 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Fire at Gun Plant]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a fire and two small explosions leveling a building at the Jet Guns Company in Fort Worth.
Date: April 2, 1954
Duration: 1 minute 22 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Youths blamed in grass fires]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about a series of grass fires in the Dallas area blamed on four youths, arrested on suspicion of intentionally setting the blazes. No one was injured in the string of fires.
Date: September 16, 1954
Duration: 1 minute 55 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: First all woman jury hears case]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about the vagrancy trial of a Dallas woman accused of prostitution. For possibly the first time in Texas history, the jury chosen by Justice of the Peace Bill Richburg is made up entirely of women.
Date: November 10, 1954
Duration: 2 minutes 44 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Bob Peddiford, cripple]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about Bob Pediford, a Dallas man crippled by rheumatoid arthritis who successfully runs a sales business from his bed, using only two fingers of his left hand -- the only part of his body not paralyzed by his disability.
Date: October 21, 1954
Duration: 1 minute 29 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Fires]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about two fires, one at a fireworks company in Fort Worth and another at a residence in Fort Worth. No one was harmed in either fire.
Date: March 7, 1954
Duration: 1 minute 05 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Sale of Easter seals begins]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about a mass mailing campaign raising funds for the Dallas Society for Crippled Children.
Date: March 17, 1954
Duration: 1 minute 06 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Polio test plans are explained]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about Tarrant County's plans to administer the polio vaccine to nearly 9,000 second graders. The mass vaccination would be performed by volunteer doctors, who were to be assisted by local mothers.
Date: March 30, 1954
Duration: 3 minutes 22 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Tarrant children get polio shots]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about Tarrant county second-graders receiving Salk polio vaccinations.
Date: May 11, 1954
Duration: 2 minutes 29 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Drownings]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about two fishermen drowning in Mountain Creek Lake near Grand Prairie after their boat capsized in high winds. Both bodies are recovered.
Date: April 21, 1954
Duration: 1 minute 44 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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