One of 150,841 items in the
series:
NBC News Scripts available on this site.
Description
Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the recapture of Howard Merritt Pierson, a criminally insane man who murdered both his parents, after three years on the run as an escapee from an Austin mental institution. Pierson, who was captured in Syracuse, New York, is returned to an institution in Texas.
The Special Collections Department collects and preserves rare and unique materials including rare books, oral histories, university archives, historical manuscripts, maps, microfilm, photographs, art and artifacts. The department is located in UNT's Willis Library in the fourth floor Reading Room.
Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the recapture of Howard Merritt Pierson, a criminally insane man who murdered both his parents, after three years on the run as an escapee from an Austin mental institution. Pierson, who was captured in Syracuse, New York, is returned to an institution in Texas.
Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about the recapture of Howard Merritt Pierson, a criminally insane man who murdered both his parents, after three years on the run as an escapee from an Austin mental institution. Pierson, who was captured in Syracuse, New York, is returned to an institution in Texas.
WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.).[News Script: Pierson returned to state hospital],
script,
December 19, 1955;
(https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc778531/:
accessed May 28, 2024),
University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu;
crediting UNT Libraries Special Collections.