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[News Script: Leaflets showered on cities of area]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a campaign in North Texas by the Civil Air Patrol, dropping leaflets from airplanes over towns in the area soliciting donations for the Radio Free Europe project.
Date: February 22, 1955
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Uranium]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a Utah uranium mining company owner, Burrell Tibbs, returning to Dallas to pick up a U.S. Army surplus plane he plans to use for scouting uranium ore deposits from the air.
Date: February 4, 1955
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Colonel]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about a visit to Dallas by Lieutenant Colonel J. P. Stapp, a U.S. Air Force researcher on the effects of acceleration and deceleration on the human body.
Date: October 28, 1955
Duration: 1 minute 02 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Three crewmen die in crash of B-47]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about the mysterious crash of a B-47 from Biggs Air Force Base that left three men dead.
Date: November 9, 1955
Duration: 2 minutes 13 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Copter crash]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a Bell helicopter crashing at the Bell plant in Hurst. One Navy lieutenant was killed in the crash; another suffered major burns.
Date: April 7, 1955
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Blimp]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a Navy blimp stopping at the Dallas Naval Air Station en route to the West Coast.
Date: May 6, 1955
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Blimp]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about a Navy blimp stopping at the Dallas Naval Air Station en route to the West Coast.
Date: May 6, 1955
Duration: 1 minute 11 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Uranium]

Description: VideVideo footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about a Utah uranium mining company owner, Burrell Tibbs, returning to Dallas to pick up a U.S. Army surplus plane he plans to use for scouting uranium ore deposits from the air.
Date: February 4, 1955
Duration: 1 minute 25 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Officials arrive for plane preview]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about Lieutenant General Isaac D. White, commander of the 4th Army, and Assistant Secretary of the Army, Frank H. Higgins, ariving in Fort Worth for Bell Aircraft's unveiling of the XV-3 Convertiplane.
Date: February 9, 1955
Duration: 1 minute 04 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Leaflets showered on cities of area]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about a campaign in North Texas by the Civil Air Patrol, dropping leaflets from airplanes over towns in the area soliciting donations for the Radio Free Europe project.
Date: February 22, 1955
Duration: 1 minute 40 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Homecoming for B-36 crews at Carswell]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about the return of the 11th bomb wing to Carswell Air Force Base after two months of overseas duty.
Date: July 3, 1955
Duration: 2 minutes 11 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: General arrives for speech]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about a speech in Fort Worth by retired Major General Wallace H. Graham, the former personal physician of President Harry S. Truman.
Date: July 21, 1955
Duration: 47 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Navy cruise ends for citizen group]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about a group of civic leaders from North Texas spending a day at sea on a U.S. Navy aircraft carrier in Florida to learn more about naval operations.
Date: July 21, 1955
Duration: 41 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Interceptors moved to Carter Field]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about four jets belonging to the Texas Air National Guard relocating from Hensley Field in Grand Prairie to Carter Field in Fort Worth for a brief civil defense patrol tour.
Date: August 17, 1955
Duration: 1 minute 14 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: AF jets set new England to use record]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about a group of U.S. Air Force jets landing at Bergstrom Air Force Base in Austin, after setting new flight time records between the Austin base and a base in England.
Date: August 17, 1955
Duration: 1 minute
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Air Force]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about an award ceremony for the airforce.
Date: August 17, 1955
Duration: 1 minute 37 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Plane]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about an experimental U.S. Air Force transport plane, the XC-99, arriving at Carswell Air Force Base in Fort Worth.
Date: July 12, 1955
Duration: 54 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Newsmen get taste of jet flying]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about U.S. Air National Guardsmen at Hensley Field in Grand Prairie hosting an open house and flight demonstration for local newsmen to promote its reserve training program.
Date: July 14, 1955
Duration: 1 minute 31 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Interceptors moved to Carter Field]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about four jets belonging to the Texas Air National Guard relocating from Hensley Field in Grand Prairie to Carter Field in Fort Worth for a brief civil defense patrol tour.
Date: August 17, 1955
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: AF jets set new England to use record]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a group of U.S. Air Force jets landing at Bergstrom Air Force Base in Austin, after setting new flight time records between the Austin base and a base in England.
Date: August 17, 1955
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Sea scouts take trip]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a group of young Sea Scouting program members flying to New Orleans to tour a U.S. Naval base.
Date: November 25, 1955
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: General]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about an inspection of a civilian jet engine shop by U.S. Air Force officials. The company, Southwest Airmotive, is contracted with the armed forces to overhaul military jet engines.
Date: October 6, 1955
Duration: 1 minute 03 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Aid]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about the U.S. Air Force sending helicopters to aid with the flood in Tampico.
Date: October 23, 1955
Duration: 1 minute 43 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Odd-looking craft to service bomber]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about a Fort Worth firm manufacturing a special vehicle designed to tow and service the RB-66 reconnaissance bomber jet for the Douglass Aircraft Company in Tulsa.
Date: September 26, 1955
Duration: 1 minute 09 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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