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[News Clip: McKeon Court Martial is Called Mistake ; Marciano ; Tarrant County 4-H Club Fair Opens ; Police Identify Amnesia Victim ; Bird and Cat]

Description: Video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany five news stories. The first is about Timothy Murphy, National Commander of the Veterans of Foreign Wars, visiting Dallas for the organization's 37th National Encampment. He campaigns for veteran's pensions and thinks the court martial of Sergeant Matthew McKeon is a mistake. Next is a story about Rocky Marciano and his relationship to a real estate company that is developing Lake Echo. The third covers the first annu… more
Date: August 10, 1956
Duration: 8 minutes 18 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Marciano]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about Rocky Marciano and his relationship to a real estate company that is developing Lake Echo.
Date: August 10, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Bomb blast wounds land case witness]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a car bomb seriously injuring a Brady attorney who is a key witness in an upcoming trial regarding a scandal surrounding a state program of land grants for veterans. He is expected to survive.
Date: June 8, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: New Yorker to Develop Land]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a real estate deal between New Yorker William Zeckendorf and Jack Barr, who says he and Zeckendorf signed a contract involving two-thousand acres south of the General Motors plant in Arlington.
Date: January 6, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: County building delay is sought]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about Tarrant County commissioners voting to continue negotiations for the purchase of a local park, to be used for the site of a new county courthouse building.
Date: March 15, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Suit Seeks to Halt Land Development]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a lawsuit brought against William Zeckendorf by Milton L. Stern in an attempt to stop development of land acquired by the Zeckendorf combine near Arlington.
Date: January 10, 1956
Duration: 3 minutes 35 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Atlas Corporation Claims Bankruptcy]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the American Atlas Corporation, owned by Joe A. Irwin, deciding to declare bankruptcy.
Date: January 17, 1956
Duration: 1 minute 17 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Irwin]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a federal bankruptcy petition filed by officers of the American Atlas Corporation and the Joe Irwin Real Estate Company. The state attorney requested that the case be dismissed, but Federal Judge Davidson refused.
Date: January 24, 1956
Duration: 1 minute 13 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Toll Road]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about continued construction on the Fort Worth-Dallas turnpike, which is scheduled to be complete in August of 1957.
Date: January 26, 1956
Duration: 1 minute 06 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

Crestview Shopping Center

Description: Exterior view of the building which housed A.B. Beddow Real Estate and Insurance and Crestview Food Mart. Beddow was located at 7106 Woodrow. Crestview Food Mart was at 7108 Woodrow.
Date: April 27, 1956
Creator: Douglass, Neal
Partner: Austin History Center, Austin Public Library
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[News Clip: Bomb blast wounds land case witness]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about a car bomb seriously injuring a Brady attorney who is a key witness in an upcoming trial regarding a scandal surrounding a state program of land grants for veterans. He is expected to survive.
Date: June 8, 1956
Duration: 16 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Fire]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a fire at a Fort Worth duplex, which was occupied by Mrs. Betha Holland, her son, and the Sam Bradford family.
Date: January 17, 1956
Duration: 33 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: New Yorker to Develop Land]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a real estate deal between New Yorker William Zeckendorf and Jack Barr, who says he and Zeckendorf signed a contract involving two-thousand acres south of the General Motors plant in Arlington.
Date: January 6, 1956
Duration: 2 minutes 23 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Letter from Bert to I. H. Kempner, February 6, 1956]

Description: Letter from Bert to I. H. Kempner discussing the estate left behind by a single holder of Nickel Offsets worth $17,000,000. The estate is to be divided between The University of Rochester and The University of Buffalo. He also writes about the exploration of the Nickel Company properties and production for diamond drilling which has begun. He also advises Kempner that he should gamble for another year or so until he has more information.
Date: February 6, 1956
Creator: Bert
Partner: Rosenberg Library
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