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[News Script: Pierson returned to state hospital] (open access)

[News Script: Pierson returned to state hospital]

Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the recapture of Howard Merritt Pierson, a criminally insane man who murdered both his parents, after three years on the run as an escapee from an Austin mental institution. Pierson, who was captured in Syracuse, New York, is returned to an institution in Texas.
Date: December 19, 1955
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
System: The UNT Digital Library