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[News Script: Peace Conference] (open access)

[News Script: Peace Conference]

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story of Anwar Sadat and Henry Kissinger to meet again to talk about the upcoming mid-east peace conference.
Date: December 14, 1973, 6:30 a.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Script
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Gunmen] (open access)

[News Script: Gunmen]

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story of five Arab gunmen who are holding four hostages abroad a Syrian aircrafts surrendered to authorities in Kuwait ending a four-day drama that stretched from Paris to the Middle East.
Date: September 8, 1973, 10:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Script
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Kissinger - Arab Talks] (open access)

[News Script: Kissinger - Arab Talks]

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story of state secretary who is flying to Washington from Key Biscayne for meeting with two Arab foreign ministers.
Date: February 16, 1974, 6:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Script
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Arabs] (open access)

[News Script: Arabs]

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story of a Syrian jetliner which is carrying five Palestinian terrorists and their hostages from Paris landed at Kuwait on the Persian Gulf after the pilot has been refused landing permission at other Arab nations.
Date: September 6, 1973, 10:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Script
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Energy] (open access)

[News Script: Energy]

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story of the senate who votes on the Emergency Energy Bill.
Date: February 18, 1974, 10:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Script
System: The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Paul R. Nixon (open access)

Oral History Interview with Paul R. Nixon

The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with Paul R. Nixon. Nixon grew up in Kenya. After reporting for duty in Nairobi, he enlisted in the Army at 20 in Eritrea. He was assigned as an engineer near Cairo, Egypt. While on guard duty, he saw Faruk I, King of Egypt. His work involved mostly civil engineering. He won a trip to Palestine. After visiting, he then traveled through Iran and Iraq by plane to assist in building an airport in Dhahran, Arabia. Although VJ Day occurred while the work was still being laid out, the team still went forward with the work. The surveying team had to move out of the ARAMCO facilities when ships brought the construction team to the future airport. Then the surveying team went to a location halfway between Cairo and Dhahran, Duwaid, to built another emergency airport. He is sent by land back to Dhahran so that he can be a guide for the return trip. Then Nixon returned to Cairo. From Cairo he traveled to Alexandria, then to France and Belgium. He was assigned to Bad Neuheim and became a chaplain's assistant. He was discharged at Fort Dix, New …
Date: unknown
Creator: Nixon, Paul R.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History