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[News Script: Segregated pools open; no incident]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about opening day for swimming pools in Fort Worth, with no incidents reported regarding the city's decision to keep the facilities racially segregated.
Date: June 3, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Fort Worth pools to be opened Saturday]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the Fort Worth recreation board turning down a request by the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People to racially integrate pool facilities in the city.
Date: May 31, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Body of drowned airman recovered]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the recovery of the body of Charles A. Gregory, a Fort Worth airman stationed at Carswell Air Force Base who drowned in Lake Worth while swimming.
Date: May 8, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Pools ready for big splash tomorrow]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about Fort Worth's six municipal pools preparing for the start of swimming season, which officially begins after the city's board of recreation denies a negro petition for the abolishment of racial segregation at the facilities.
Date: June 1, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Negro boy drowned, man dies at lake]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a young Dallas boy drowning while swimming in a lake, as well as a Grand Prairie man dying of a heart attack while fishing in another lake.
Date: May 7, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Splash day]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the annual Splash Day celebration at Galveston beach.
Date: May 7, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Drownings]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about four young men drowning in North Texas while swimming, two in Grapevine Lake, one in Lake Dallas, and one in the Brazos River.
Date: May 13, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Swimming]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about the reopening of Fort Worth's newly renovated Casino Beach.
Date: May 14, 1954
Duration: 57 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Life saver comes in neat package]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about a flotation device that could be easily carried and would inflate when pressure was applied.
Date: May 19, 1954
Duration: 1 minute 06 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Swimming pools open tomorrow]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about the reopening of the Fort Worth Forest Park Pool for the summer.
Date: May 21, 1954
Duration: 1 minute 13 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Water carnival]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about the Red Cross' swimming carnival in Dallas. The carnival was presented by students of the Red Cross' swimming classes.
Date: August 3, 1954
Duration: 1 minute 34 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Handicap swim]

Description: Video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story.
Date: August 3, 1981, 5:00 p.m.
Duration: 1 minute 34 seconds
Creator: KXAS-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: YMCA]

Description: B-roll video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story.
Date: April 22, 1982, 5:00 p.m.
Duration: 1 minute 11 seconds
Creator: KXAS-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

Interiors of Commodore Perry Hotel

Description: Interior view of pool area in the Commodore Perry Hotel, with chairs and tables. 3 women in bathing suits at side of pool, 1 woman on diving board, 1 woman standing next to board in street clothes.
Date: August 20, 1956
Creator: Douglass, Neal
Partner: Austin History Center, Austin Public Library
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