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Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about Roosevelt Allen, who was taken to the police for shooting Dora Pearl Mergerson. Allen claims it was accidental as his chair fell and the gun in his jacket fired on its own.
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Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about Roosevelt Allen, who was taken to the police for shooting Dora Pearl Mergerson. Allen claims it was accidental as his chair fell and the gun in his jacket fired on its own.
WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.).[News Script: Legless killer],
script,
February 7, 1960;
(https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc861803/:
accessed June 12, 2024),
University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu;
crediting UNT Libraries Special Collections.