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[News Clip: Tree-Watering Device, Student Pilot Dies When Plane Crashes, News Briefs -- Patty, Pumpers Won't Drink Dallas Tap Water, Sonny Evans, Democrats, Gorilla]
Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story about a homemade tree-saving device, created by Fort Worth police detective T. M. Wood; Captain Charles Walker, a student pilot from Perrin Air Force Base, who crashed his T-33 jet training plane and died; the brief appearance of singer Patty Page in Dallas, Texas, en route to marry movie director Charles O'Curran; the salty drinking water in Dallas, which comes from the Red River; the arrest of teenager Sonny Evans, who was found in a car near the scene of a tavern where somebody had torn off the back screen, supposedly in a burglary effort; disagreements between conservative democrats and liberal democrats in Fort Worth; and the arrival of a 16-pound baby girl gorilla, from New York, at Forest Park Zoo in Fort Worth, Texas.
Date:
September 7, 1956
Creator:
WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
System:
The UNT Digital Library
[News Clip: The week in review]
Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the various news segments covered this week. Stories include the death of Frank Cates, a fire in Gainesville, Richard Nixon's visit to Fort Worth, a strike at the Haggar Slacks Company, and others.
Date:
October 13, 1956
Creator:
WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
System:
The UNT Digital Library
[News Clip: Gainesville blaze loss over million]
Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a fire at two cotton warehouses in Gainesville. The mayor claimed that this was the worst fire in the city's history.
Date:
October 9, 1956
Creator:
WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
System:
The UNT Digital Library