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[News Script: Prison Rodeo] (open access)

[News Script: Prison Rodeo]

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas relating a news story.
Date: October 6, 1968
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Script
System: The UNT Digital Library

Eleven Days in Hell: the 1974 Carrasco Prison Siege in Huntsville, Texas

Access: Use of this item is restricted to the UNT Community
From one o’clock on the afternoon of July 24, 1974, until shortly before ten o’clock the night of August 3, eleven days later, one of the longest hostage-taking sieges in the history of the United States took place in Texas’s Huntsville State Prison. The ringleader, Federico (Fred) Gomez Carrasco, the former boss of the largest drug-running operation in south Texas, was serving life for assault with intent to commit murder on a police officer. Using his connections to smuggle guns and ammunition into the prison, and employing the aid of two other inmates, he took eleven prison workers and four inmates hostage in the prison library. Demanding bulletproof helmets and vests, he planned to use the hostages as shields for his escape. Negotiations began immediately with prison warden H. H. Husbands and W. J. Estelle, Jr., Director of the Texas Department of Corrections. The Texas Rangers, the Department of Public Safety, and the FBI arrived to assist as the media descended on Huntsville. When one of the hostages suggested a moving structure of chalkboards padded with law books to absorb bullets, Carrasco agreed to the plan. The captors entered their escape pod with four hostages and secured eight others to …
Date: August 15, 2004
Creator: Harper, William T.
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Plane wreck] (open access)

[News Script: Plane wreck]

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story.
Date: April 17, 1969, 8:25 a.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Script
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Kerr to Clint] (open access)

[News Script: Kerr to Clint]

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story.
Date: April 16, 1969, 12:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Script
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Plane wreck] (open access)

[News Script: Plane wreck]

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story.
Date: April 17, 1969, 6:30 a.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Script
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Plane crash probe] (open access)

[News Script: Plane crash probe]

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story.
Date: April 17, 1969, 12:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Script
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Plane crash] (open access)

[News Script: Plane crash]

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story.
Date: April 16, 1969, 10:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Script
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Huntsville] (open access)

[News Script: Huntsville]

Photocopy of a script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about Huntsville prisoners reacting to the unconstitutionality declaration of the death sentence.
Date: June 30, 1972, 6:30 a.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Script
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Clip: Walker Plane] captions transcript

[News Clip: Walker Plane]

B-roll video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story. This story aired at 10pm.
Date: September 4, 1988
Creator: KXAS-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Video
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Clip: Prison Killer] captions transcript

[News Clip: Prison Killer]

Video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story. This story aired at 10pm.
Date: September 12, 1989
Creator: KXAS-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Video
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Clip: Prison Killer] captions transcript

[News Clip: Prison Killer]

Video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story. This story aired at 10pm.
Date: September 13, 1989
Creator: KXAS-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Video
System: The UNT Digital Library
Cleaner for Seed-Cotton. (open access)

Cleaner for Seed-Cotton.

Patent for a new and improved cleaner for seed cotton, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: November 8, 1898
Creator: Hart, Edward
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Huntsville Post-Item (Huntsville, Tex.), Vol. 57, No. 19, Ed. 1 Friday, January 4, 1907 (open access)

The Huntsville Post-Item (Huntsville, Tex.), Vol. 57, No. 19, Ed. 1 Friday, January 4, 1907

Weekly newspaper from Huntsville, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with advertising.
Date: January 4, 1907
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Huntsville Post-Item (Huntsville, Tex.), Vol. 56, No. 18, Ed. 1 Friday, December 8, 1905 (open access)

The Huntsville Post-Item (Huntsville, Tex.), Vol. 56, No. 18, Ed. 1 Friday, December 8, 1905

Weekly newspaper from Huntsville, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with advertising.
Date: December 8, 1905
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Huntsville Post-Item (Huntsville, Tex.), Vol. 57, No. 23, Ed. 1 Friday, February 1, 1907 (open access)

The Huntsville Post-Item (Huntsville, Tex.), Vol. 57, No. 23, Ed. 1 Friday, February 1, 1907

Weekly newspaper from Huntsville, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with advertising.
Date: February 1, 1907
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Huntsville Post-Item (Huntsville, Tex.), Vol. 57, No. 39, Ed. 1 Friday, June 7, 1907 (open access)

The Huntsville Post-Item (Huntsville, Tex.), Vol. 57, No. 39, Ed. 1 Friday, June 7, 1907

Weekly newspaper from Huntsville, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with advertising.
Date: June 7, 1907
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History

Walker Co.

Blue line print of survey map of Walker County, Texas, showing rivers, creeks, original land grants or surveys, cities, towns, and railroads. Scale [ca. 1:177,778] (4000 varas to 3/4 of an inch).
Date: 1903
Creator: Sweeney, Frank R.
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Minutes for the TXSSAR Board of Managers Meeting: November 5, 1977] (open access)

[Minutes for the TXSSAR Board of Managers Meeting: November 5, 1977]

Minutes from a meeting of the TXSSAR Board of Managers, held on November 5, 1977 at the Sam Houston Inn, Huntsville, Texas, including a summary of activities and business discussed. The meeting was called to order and presided by President Louis Rumaggi, the invocation was given by State Chaplain A. J. Frank.
Date: November 1977
Creator: Sons of the American Revolution. Texas Society.
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Annual Meeting of the Texas Society, Sons of the American Revolution, 1979 (open access)

Annual Meeting of the Texas Society, Sons of the American Revolution, 1979

Program for the 83rd annual meeting of the Texas Society Sons of the American Revolution, held from March 16 through the 17, 1979 at the Institute of Contempoary Corrections & The Behavioral Sciences in Hunstville, Texas, including a list of sessions for the meeting and related information about the organization and conference. The meeting was called to order by President Richard L. Denham in Rooms 208-209 of the Institute.
Date: March 1979
Creator: Sons of the American Revolution. Texas Society.
Object Type: Pamphlet
System: The UNT Digital Library
[Minutes for the TXSSAR Board of Managers Meeting: July 24, 1977] (open access)

[Minutes for the TXSSAR Board of Managers Meeting: July 24, 1977]

Minutes from a meeting of the TXSSAR Board of Managers, held on July 24, 1977 at the Sam Houston Inn, in Huntsville, Texas, including a summary of activities and business discussed. The meeting was called to order and presided over by President Louis Rumaggi.
Date: July 1977
Creator: Sons of the American Revolution. Texas Society.
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
[Minutes for the TXSSAR Board of Managers Meeting: March 16, 1979] (open access)

[Minutes for the TXSSAR Board of Managers Meeting: March 16, 1979]

Minutes from a meeting of the TXSSAR Board of Managers, held on March 16, 1979, in Huntsville, Texas, including a summary of activities and business discussed. The meeting was called to order by President Denham with treasurer General Robert Luckey introduced as a guest.
Date: March 1979
Creator: Sons of the American Revolution. Texas Society.
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Clip: Hayes release] captions transcript

[News Clip: Hayes release]

Video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story.
Date: February 27, 1980, 6:00 p.m.
Creator: KXAS-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Video
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Clip: Prison violence] captions transcript

[News Clip: Prison violence]

Video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story.
Date: October 2, 1984, 10:00 p.m.
Creator: KXAS-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Video
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Clip: Tucker] captions transcript

[News Clip: Tucker]

Video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story.
Date: February 3, 1998
Creator: KXAS-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Video
System: The UNT Digital Library