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Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a Fort Worth family suffering multiple tragedies in quick succession. Teenager Patricia Wills is hospitalized with an injured leg after being pinned between two cars in an accident. Wills lost her father, police officer Marvin Wills, to an unsolved shooting a year prior to her accident. Five years before the shooting, the Wills family lost their young son after he was struck and killed in a hit-and-run auto accident.
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Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a Fort Worth family suffering multiple tragedies in quick succession. Teenager Patricia Wills is hospitalized with an injured leg after being pinned between two cars in an accident. Wills lost her father, police officer Marvin Wills, to an unsolved shooting a year prior to her accident. Five years before the shooting, the Wills family lost their young son after he was struck and killed in a hit-and-run auto accident.
Video footage from the WBAP-TV television station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story about a Fort Worth family suffering multiple tragedies in quick succession. Teenager Patricia Wills is hospitalized with an injured leg after being pinned between two cars in an accident. Wills lost her father, police officer Marvin Wills, to an unsolved shooting a year prior to her accident. Five years before the shooting, the Wills family lost their young son after he was struck and killed in a hit-and-run auto accident.
WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.).[News Script: Hard luck family suffers new blow],
script,
May 10, 1956;
(https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc498391/:
accessed June 12, 2024),
University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu;
crediting UNT Libraries Special Collections.