[News Script: Murderer hangs] (open access)

[News Script: Murderer hangs]

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about John Devries- the first person who was sentenced to death for murder under the new Texas penal code was found hanged in his cell at the Ellis prison farm in Huntsville.
Date: July 1, 1974, 12:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
System: The UNT Digital Library