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[News Script: Explosion]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a fire and subsequent explosion that took place and the Shamrock Oil and Gas Corporation tank-farm near Dumas. Nineteen men were killed.
Date: July 29, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)

[News Script: Discovered bodies]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about oildfielders discovering three adults that were shot and a child that was wounded in a car.
Date: October 9, 1972, 6:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)

[News Script: Headlines]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, with three headlines: one about oil in the San Antonio River, one about a murder-suicide, and one about a bill for auto and home insurance rates.
Date: October 9, 1972
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)

[News Script: Headlines]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, with three headlines: one about oil in the San Antonio River, one about a murder-suicide, and one about a bill for auto and home insurance rates.
Date: October 9, 1972
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)

[Three children with Santa Claus]

Description: Photograph of three children posing with an adult dressed as Santa Claus. The young boy stands between the two girls and looks directly at the camera. The girl to his right is turned to the side and looks up at Santa. The other girl holds Santa's hand and holds a toy up to her mouth while looking at the camera.
Date: 1948
Creator: Standifer, James William

[Children riding a Ferris wheel]

Description: Photograph of two girls and a boy sharing a seat on a Ferris wheel amusement ride. The operator stands nearby with one leg propped up on the ride and one elbow resting on his knee. A building for a Doge Plymouth automobile dealership can be seen in the background. A large number of automobiles are parked nearby.
Date: June 1948
Creator: Standifer, James William

[Cactus Ordnance Works main gate]

Description: Photograph of the main gate at the Cactus Ordnance Works in Cactus, Texas. Four men in police-like uniforms stand at the booth of the main gate and look at the camera. A large dog sits next to them. An automobile is stopped at the gate. The Cactus Ordnance Works was a 700-acre manufacturing site for ammonia nitrate.
Date: [1947..1949]
Creator: Standifer, James William

[Portrait of Monte Hale]

Description: Photograph of actor Monte Hale posing with a horse at the Dogie Days event in Dumas, Texas. He holds the horse's reins and smiles at the camera. Monte is dressed in western attire. Other individuals can be seen standing in the background.
Date: 1948
Creator: Standifer, James William

[News Script: Dumas]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about volunteer firemen who were injured when they battled a discount house fire at Dumas in the upper Texas panhandle.
Date: June 29, 1973, 12:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)

[Moore Conty Courthouse in Dumas, TX]

Description: Photograph of Moore County Courthouse in Dumas, TX. A sidewalk separates a rough road from the courthouse's lawn, in which tall green trees grown in sections of lawn divided up by the sidewalk. In the ride side of the photo, on a section of sidewalk, is a tall stone rectangle with indistinguishable text on it and a small pot of flowers on its base, likely a memorial or monument. More trees and bushes occupy other sections of the lawn, surrounding the corners of the courthouse. A short set of st… more
Date: September 14, 1975

[News Script: Tornado]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about fifty four counties of the Panhandle and northwest Texas which have been under a tornado watch.
Date: June 3, 1974, 10:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
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