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[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
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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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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
[Photograph 2012.201.B0251.0396]
Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Armchair quarterbacks and other critics shouldn't be so quick to belittle prison and law enforcement officials for handling of prison riots, the warden of the Huntsville, Tex., state prison said on Oklahoma City Saturday."
Date:
August 11, 1973
Creator:
Albright, Bob
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Utterbackia imbecillis, Specimen #1323
One preserved mussel specimen including both the left and right valves. The specimen exhibits an oval shape; thin shell; double looped beak sculpturing; bluish-white internal coloring; green external coloring; no external sculpturing. Collected in the San Jacinto basin. The specimen measures between 0 - 60 mm in length and was assessed to be relatively-recently dead when collected.
Date:
October 23, 1976
Creator:
Britton, Joseph
Object Type:
Specimen
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Utterbackia imbecillis, Specimen #1324
One preserved mussel specimen including both the left and right valves. The specimen exhibits an oval shape; thin shell; double looped beak sculpturing; bluish-white internal coloring; tan external coloring; no external sculpturing. Collected in the San Jacinto basin. The specimen measures between 0 - 60 mm in length and was assessed to be relatively-recently dead when collected.
Date:
October 23, 1976
Creator:
Britton, Joseph
Object Type:
Specimen
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Utterbackia imbecillis, Specimen #1325
One preserved mussel specimen including both the left and right valves. The specimen exhibits an oval shape; thin shell; double looped beak sculpturing; bluish-white internal coloring; green external coloring; no external sculpturing. Collected in the San Jacinto basin. The specimen measures between 0 - 60 mm in length and was assessed to be relatively-recently dead when collected.
Date:
October 23, 1976
Creator:
Britton, Joseph
Object Type:
Specimen
System:
The UNT Digital Library
[Photograph 2012.201.B0251.0397]
Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Laurence Harvey, warden of the Huntsville, Tex., state prison, will be featured speaker Saturday at a meeting of the Oklahoma City Chapter of Full Gospel Businessmen's Fellowship International."
Date:
August 6, 1973
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
[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]
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]
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]
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
Car-Replacer
Patent for a car replacer for train cars. Illustrations included.
Date:
December 12, 1911
Creator:
Roark, Trever Cardail
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
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
Churn.
Patent for an improvement to churns. "The purpose of the invention is to provide a novel churn structure embodying a pair of oppositely reciprocating dashers mounted in a common churn receptacle or body and operated from a single crank wheel" (lines 15-19).
Date:
February 25, 1913
Creator:
Burdeaux, Carey E. & Burdeaux, Charley W.
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
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
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
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
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