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[Letter from David Fentress to his wife Clara, December 21, 1864] (open access)

[Letter from David Fentress to his wife Clara, December 21, 1864]

Letter from David Fentress to his wife Clara telling her that he is sending food, candy, and cloth. He requests that she sew the cloth into drawers and send them back to him. He states his salary will be $110 per month. He then lists his expenses. He tells Clara he has had Yellow Fever. He requests cotton socks. He ends by regretting not being able to spend Christmas with his family.
Date: December 21, 1864
Creator: Fentress, David
Object Type: Letter
System: The UNT Digital Library
[Transcript of Letter from David Fentress to his wife Clara, December 21, 1864] (open access)

[Transcript of Letter from David Fentress to his wife Clara, December 21, 1864]

Transcript of a letter from David Fentress to his wife Clara telling her that he is sending food, candy, and cloth. He requests that she sew the cloth into drawers and send them back to him. He states his salary will be $110 per month. He then lists his expenses. He tells Clara he has had Yellow Fever. He requests cotton socks. He ends by regretting not being able to spend Christmas with his family.
Date: December 21, 1864
Creator: Fentress, David
Object Type: Letter
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Anniversary of flight observed] (open access)

[News Script: Anniversary of flight observed]

Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a ceremony and parade in San Antonio commemorating the 50th anniversary of powered flight.
Date: December 18, 1953
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Script
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: News Brief - Slots] (open access)

[News Script: News Brief - Slots]

Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the destruction of 39 illegal slot machines confiscated by the San Antonio police.
Date: December 10, 1953
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Script
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Hunting is good on Alamo plaza] (open access)

[News Script: Hunting is good on Alamo plaza]

Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about large flocks of cowbirds considered pests in San Antonio. Police shoot the birds with shotguns each night as they roost in trees around the downtown area, but the birds persist in flocking all over the city.
Date: December 17, 1953
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Script
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Army has first woman magician] (open access)

[News Script: Army has first woman magician]

Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a female magician in the Women's Army Corps, Sergeant Genevieve F. Harris. Sgt. Harris uses her magic tricks to entertain soldiers at Fort Sam Houston.
Date: December 25, 1953
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Script
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Batchelor] (open access)

[News Script: Batchelor]

Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about Claude Batchelor returning to Texas from Korea and Thurman Priest slaying his niece.
Date: December 31, 1954
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Script
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: The Week in Review] (open access)

[News Script: The Week in Review]

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering the major news stories of the past week, including a gas explosion and fire at a Greenville hotel that killed one man, a San Antonio house fire that killed three children, the surrender of two men in Tarrant County for questioning in the murder of a truck driver during an altercation, a five-year prison term for marijuana posession in San Antonio for country singer T. Texas Tyler, bond posted by Dallas stockbroker Ben Jack Cage in an embezzlement indictment, a derailed train in Fort Worth, and a Fort Worth visit by Senate Majority Leader Lyndon B. Johnson.
Date: December 14, 1957
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Script
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Train/auto] (open access)

[News Script: Train/auto]

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about an accident between a train and a car near San Antonio that left five people dead and one critically injured.
Date: December 28, 1957
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Script
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Kids die in fire] (open access)

[News Script: Kids die in fire]

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a housefire near San Antonio that claimed the lives of two children.
Date: December 28, 1957
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Script
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Preserve offers pheasant hunts] (open access)

[News Script: Preserve offers pheasant hunts]

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a nature preserve near San Antonio stocking its acreage with pheasants for Texas hunters.
Date: December 6, 1957
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Script
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Singer gets five years -- maybe] (open access)

[News Script: Singer gets five years -- maybe]

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about musician T. Texas Tyler asking for a probated sentence for possession of marijuana.
Date: December 10, 1957
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Script
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: San Antonio fire claims 3] (open access)

[News Script: San Antonio fire claims 3]

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a house fire in San Antonio that killed 3 children.
Date: December 9, 1957
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Script
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Twins leave for kidney surgery] (open access)

[News Script: Twins leave for kidney surgery]

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about two Oklahoma City twins passing through San Antonio on the way to a veterans hospital in Virginia, where one twin hopes to donate a kidney to his sick brother.
Date: December 4, 1957
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Script
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Addison] (open access)

[News Script: Addison]

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about John Milton Addison going on trial for the theft of fifty dollars.
Date: December 13, 1959
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Script
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Candy Barr] (open access)

[News Script: Candy Barr]

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about Fort Worth stripper and attempted murderess Candy Barr returning to Texas from the West Coast to serve a 15-year prison sentence for marijuana possession.
Date: December 3, 1959
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Script
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Clip: Cadena] captions transcript

[News Clip: Cadena]

Video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story. This story aired at 6pm.
Date: December 17, 1988, 6:00 p.m.
Creator: KXAS-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Video
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Clip: San Antonio Fire] captions transcript

[News Clip: San Antonio Fire]

Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story about a fire in San Antonio.This footage shows rescue workers and victims. This story aired at 5:00 P.M.
Date: December 31, 1984
Creator: KXAS-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Video
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Space capsule] (open access)

[News Script: Space capsule]

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a space capsule that four men were in for 42 days.
Date: December 16, 1963
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Script
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Herrington] (open access)

[News Script: Herrington]

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the manslaughter trial of a Colonel in San Antonio.
Date: December 6, 1962
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Script
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Clip: News briefs - slots] captions transcript

[News Clip: News briefs - slots]

Video footage from the WBAP-TV television station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story.
Date: December 10, 1953
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Video
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Poisoner] (open access)

[News Script: Poisoner]

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a woman who admitted that she poisoned her sister and her brother in law.
Date: December 20, 1961
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Script
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Elephant] (open access)

[News Script: Elephant]

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story.
Date: December 17, 1960
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Script
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Korean Wounded] (open access)

[News Script: Korean Wounded]

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas relating a news story about a C-74 Globemaster Transport plan landing in Kelley Air Force Base in San Antonio carrying 69 wounded soldiers and marines from the Korean battlefronts. The wounded are admitted at Lackland hospital before being shuttled off to hospitals near their hometowns.
Date: December 22, 1950, 6:45 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Script
System: The UNT Digital Library