[News Script: Blind Columnist to Address Convention]

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Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about Victor Riesel, a newspaper columnist, who was blinded earlier this year by a youth who threw acid at him. He arrives in Dallas on his way to Fort Worth, where he will address the Texas Manufacturers Association's thirty-fourth annual conference.

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WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.) November 12, 1956.

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Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about Victor Riesel, a newspaper columnist, who was blinded earlier this year by a youth who threw acid at him. He arrives in Dallas on his way to Fort Worth, where he will address the Texas Manufacturers Association's thirty-fourth annual conference.

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3 p. ; 28 cm.

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Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about Victor Riesel, a newspaper columnist, who was blinded earlier this year by a youth who threw acid at him. He arrives in Dallas on his way to Fort Worth, where he will address the Texas Manufacturers Association's thirty-fourth annual conference.

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WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.). [News Script: Blind Columnist to Address Convention], script, November 12, 1956; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc333667/: accessed May 27, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting UNT Libraries Special Collections.

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