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[News Script: Ex Wrestling Champ is Seeking Damages]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about Ed "Strangler" Lewis, the former World's Heavyweight Wrestling Champion, going to trial against the Hilton Hotel. He seeks one-hundred-thousand dollars in damages he incurred from falling into an open service pit.
Date: January 31, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: News brief one]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a beauty pageant at the wrestling matches in Dallas.
Date: June 13, 1951
Duration: 1 minute 02 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Wrestling]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a professional wrestling exhibition at the Bigtown Shopping Center East in Dallas.
Date: August 26, 1959
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Three Charged in Sportatorium Fire]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about three men arrested for allegedly burning down a Dallas wrestling arena.
Date: August 23, 1953
Duration: 2 minutes 13 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Alligator Garden]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV television station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story.
Date: April 2, 1952
Duration: 1 minute 15 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Wrestler]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about wrestler, Great Antonio, arriving in Fort Worth.
Date: January 13, 1959
Duration: 1 minute 32 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Washburn]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about the Dallas trial of Harry Washburn, a man accused of murdering his mother-in-law with a car bomb.
Date: June 24, 1957
Duration: 3 minutes 53 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Wrestling]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about two people wrestling each other.
Date: December 19, 1956
Duration: 1 minute 36 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Wrestlers]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about a group of professional wrestlers in Fort Worth performing to raise money for the March of Dimes polio fund.
Date: February 2, 1954
Duration: 1 minute 11 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Collegians ride in annual rodeo]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about the annual Arlington State College Rodeo in Fort Worth.
Date: April 3, 1955
Duration: 1 minute 18 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Wrestling tickets]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about free tickets to a Fort Worth wrestling match distributed to anyone weighing more than 250 pounds.
Date: November 2, 1951
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Rassle hassle goes to court]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a court case in Dallas involving a television contract dispute between local wrestlers and promoter Ed McLemore.
Date: January 7, 1953
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: News brief one]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a beauty pageant at the wrestling matches in Dallas.
Date: June 13, 1951
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Hungry Humphrey]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the massive appetite of wrestler Humphrey Pennyworth, who eats 78 plates of food at a Dallas cafeteria.
Date: January 27, 1951
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Wrestlers]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a group of professional wrestlers in Fort Worth performing to raise money for the March of Dimes polio fund.
Date: February 2, 1954
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

Wrestling at Fair Park

Description: Photograph of a wrestling match at Fair Park. Both wrestlers are holding on to the rope on the edge of the ring. One is sitting down, and the other is standing with his foot on the sitting wrestler. The referee is standing beside them. In the background, there is a sign on one of the rafters that says "Dr. Pepper."
Date: 1955
Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library

Wrestling at Fair Park

Description: Photograph of a wrestling match at Fair Park in Abilene. Two wrestlers and a referee are in the ring while a crowd watches in the stands. One of the wrestlers is flipping the other over.
Date: 1955
Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library
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