[News Clip: Ashley escape] captions transcript

[News Clip: Ashley escape]

Video footage from the WBAP-TV television station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story.
Date: October 8, 1964
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Video
System: The UNT Digital Library
San Antonio Register (San Antonio, Tex.), Vol. 34, No. 10, Ed. 1 Friday, May 8, 1964 (open access)

San Antonio Register (San Antonio, Tex.), Vol. 34, No. 10, Ed. 1 Friday, May 8, 1964

Weekly newspaper from San Antonio, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: May 8, 1964
Creator: Andrews, U. J.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
[News Script: Ashley escape] (open access)

[News Script: Ashley escape]

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the escape of Leslie Douglas Ashley, from the state hospital in San Antonio; Female impersonator Ashley and Carolyn Ann Lima were originally sentenced to death for the torch murder of a man, the convictions reversed, Ms. Lima given 5 years in prison and Ashley judged insane.
Date: October 8, 1964
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Script
System: The UNT Digital Library
[Letter from John W. Stanford to Maury Maverick, Jr., October 8, 1964] (open access)

[Letter from John W. Stanford to Maury Maverick, Jr., October 8, 1964]

Letter from John W. Stanford to Maury Maverick, Jr. discussing the brief submitted in his case, Stanford v. Texas, in the United States Supreme Court. Stanford disagreed with several statements about the Communist Party of the United States and the McCarran Act and stating he would like the record to reflect his position.
Date: October 8, 1964
Creator: Stanford, John W., Jr.
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History