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[News Script: Gas Wells]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about oil drilling near Bridgeport at a location called "Morris-Gill Number One."
Date: September 16, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Oil strike ruins good water well]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about a Haltom City man attempting to drill a water well in his yard and discovering oil instead. The oil is believed to have leaked from a pipeline in the area.
Date: August 12, 1954
Duration: 1 minute 03 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Flaming gas well is snuffed out]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about firefighting efforts on a burning gas well on a platform in the Gulf of Mexico off the coast of Louisiana.
Date: February 6, 1953
Duration: 4 minutes 30 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Oil strike ruins good water well]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a Haltom City man attempting to drill a water well in his yard and discovering oil instead. The oil is believed to have leaked from a pipeline in the area.
Date: August 12, 1954
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Oil wells]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the Shell Oil Company drilling wells in Lake Texoma in an attempt to find oil while the water level is low due to drought.
Date: July 1, 1953
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Carter's oil well]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the renewal of deep oil exploration in Tarrant county.
Date: February 15, 1955
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

Gussie Shutterly's Well

Description: Photograph of the lower portion of an oil well including the lower part of a tower surrounded by other structures. Several cars are parked on the far right and left sides of the images. There is a double exposure on the right side of the photograph that shows the back end of a car. A handwritten note along the bottom of the photo says, "Gussie Shutterly's Well. May 1959."
Date: May 1959
Partner: Wolf Creek Heritage Museum

[News Script: Activities of the Week]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas relating a news story about an oil well fire in Borden County near Big Springs burning for a week, killing a geologist when it blew out. Another fire in Dallas caused thousands of feet of motion picture film to burn, which exhausted 18 firemen. The women's trans-Mississippi golf tournament ended at Lakewood Country Club in Dallas with Marjorie Lindsay crowned the new champion.
Date: June 18, 1950
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Oil well fire]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about an oil well fire near Throckmorton.
Date: March 1, 1957
Duration: 2 minutes 46 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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