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[Clipping: Dream Comes True For Happy Couple]

Description: Clipping of an article from the Dallas Morning News about a couple residing in one of the newly built homes in Hamilton Park. The couple is excited to be moving into their new home as they hoped to have a home of their own. A formal opening ceremony of the development of Hamilton Park is planned to be held to thank the contributions of the Dallas Citizens' Interracial Association that built an improved community in black neighborhoods that were dealing with housing shortages.
Date: May 2, 1954

[Clipping: Formal Opening To Be Held For New Negro Subdivision]

Description: Clipping of an article from the Daily Timed Herald, Dallas about the construction of homes in the Hamiton Park subdivision. A celebration regarding the newly built homes will be held with the president of the Dallas Citizens' Interracial Association, Jerome Crossman. Although the main goal of the project is to build homes, the association also wants to improve Hamilton Park by adding a shopping center, churches, parks, as well as adding sewer lines.
Date: May 2, 1954

[Clipping: Formal Opening Today... Hamilton Park]

Description: Clipping of an advertisement of the open house events and ceremonies due to the new development in Hamilton Park. The advertisement states and shows pictures that the new homes are modern and have many amenities included in them. It also mentions that the homes were built for black families living in Dallas by the Dallas Citizens' Interracial Association.
Date: May 2, 1954
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[News Clip: Bennett trial]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about the rape trial of Calvin Ray Bennett in which he pleads guilty as charged and another story about an attempted rape of an 11 year old girl by an unidentified male.
Date: December 2, 1954
Duration: 1 minute 31 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
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[News Clip: Boys blamed in four alarm fire]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about three different fires in Dallas, Texas. One is caused by a group of boys in a house, another breaks out in the storeroom of Campbell Book Store, and the final one breaks out downtown.
Date: June 2, 1954
Duration: 2 minutes 42 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
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[News Clip: Carmen Miranda]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about Latin singer Carmen Miranda stopping over in Dallas en route to Rio de Janeiro.
Date: December 2, 1954
Duration: 44 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
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[News Clip: Charges filed on negro rapist]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about murder charges filed against Tommy Lee Walker, a Dallas man accused of sexually assaulting and murdering a housewife, Mrs. H. C. Parker.
Date: February 2, 1954
Duration: 55 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
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[News Clip: Chinese Cop Visits Dallas]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about Chinese Police Chief Ching-Li Liu visiting Dallas as part of a tour of American law enforcement and prison systems.
Date: April 2, 1954
Duration: 1 minute 28 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
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[News Clip: Cisco and Pancho fly in for show]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about Duncan Renaldo and Leo Carrillo, stars of the television series The Cisco Kid, flying in to Dallas to star in the Cotton Bowl's holiday show.
Date: July 2, 1954
Duration: 1 minute 47 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
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[News Clip: Corrigan building]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about the construction of a 30-floor skyscraper called the Corrigan Building in downtown Dallas.
Date: March 2, 1954
Duration: 50 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
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[News Clip: Haunted house burglary probed]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about four youths spending the night in a supposedly haunted abandoned house in Dallas on a bet, discovering $2,500 in cash and securities in a stack of old newspapers, and being arrested after their spending spree draws the attention of authorities. The remaining money is returned to its rightful owner.
Date: March 2, 1954
Duration: 1 minute 31 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
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[News Clip: Jet plane crashes into boat works]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about the crash of a malfunctioning U.S. Air Force jet into a Grand Prairie boat factory, killing two workmen and injuring several others. The plane's pilot survived after ejecting from the crash.
Date: February 2, 1954
Duration: 2 minutes
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
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[News Clip: Lake is dragged for missing man]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about an unsuccesful search for the body of Marvin Frederick Baldwin, an Oklahoma salesman believed drowned in a lake near Dallas after his car was discovered nearby.
Date: March 2, 1954
Duration: 1 minute 40 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
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[News Clip: Lie detector]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about the Dallas county sheriff's department getting a polygraph machine.
Date: December 2, 1954
Duration: 1 minute 31 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
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[News Clip: Mass of requiem said at Dallas]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about All Soul's Day being observed on the outdoor altar in Calvary Hill Cemetery in Dallas.
Date: November 2, 1954
Duration: 34 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
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[News Clip: Mistletoe shipped north by air]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about mistletoe gathered in Central Texas being shipped north for the holiday season.
Date: December 2, 1954
Duration: 1 minute 39 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
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[News Clip: Motor cops may get crash helmets]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about Dallas motorcycle police planning to utilize crash helmets to help prevent injuries among officers.
Date: September 2, 1954
Duration: 1 minute 31 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
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[News Clip: Murder trial]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about murder trials of a truck driver who was charged for four burglaries and committing sex offenses against women in Dallas.
Date: April 2, 1954
Duration: 36 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
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[News Clip: National Jaycee President arrives]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about the National President of the Junior Chamber of Commerce arriving at the Grand Prairie Airport to attend a banquet in Arlington.
Date: November 2, 1954
Duration: 33 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
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[News Clip: News brief - beauty]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about DiAnn Boulware, recently-crowned Queen of the Dallas-Fort Worth News Photographers, being made an honorary Dallas deputy before departing for Atlantic City, where she was to compete in the National Press Photographers beauty contest.
Date: June 2, 1954
Duration: 40 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
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