[News Clip: AIDS Survey]

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Video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story by reporter Sherry Woodard about Dallas County being randomly selected by the Center for Disease Control (CDC) for a random anonymous paid survey to test Dallas residents for AIDS. The footage includes an interview with an unpaid gay leader who opposes the survey and a proponent of the survey who speaks of the ethics in not providing results to the survey participants. The footage also includes a press conference with panelists Peter Hurley, Gordon Green, M.D., Gary Swisher, and Ora Lee Watson, Ph.D. This story aired … continued below

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1 videocassette (Betacam SP) (1 min., 46 sec.) : sd., col. ; 1/2 in.

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KXAS-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.) June 19, 1989.

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Video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story by reporter Sherry Woodard about Dallas County being randomly selected by the Center for Disease Control (CDC) for a random anonymous paid survey to test Dallas residents for AIDS. The footage includes an interview with an unpaid gay leader who opposes the survey and a proponent of the survey who speaks of the ethics in not providing results to the survey participants. The footage also includes a press conference with panelists Peter Hurley, Gordon Green, M.D., Gary Swisher, and Ora Lee Watson, Ph.D. This story aired at 6:00 P.M.

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1 videocassette (Betacam SP) (1 min., 46 sec.) : sd., col. ; 1/2 in.

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  • Preferred Citation: NBC 5/KXAS Television News Collection (AR0776), University of North Texas Special Collections

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  • June 19, 1989

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KXAS-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.). [News Clip: AIDS Survey], video, June 19, 1989; Fort Worth, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc904831/: accessed May 4, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting UNT Libraries Special Collections.

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