0:00, 35:16 - (March 16, 1972) A fire at a Fina gas station in Jacksboro shuts down U.S. Highway 281 and burns half a block; damages are estimated at $250,000 (Silent).
0:39, 33:41 - Willis Johnson, new Executive Director of Dallas Community Action (DCA), talks about agency funding and outstanding loans.
1:32, 31:43, 34:58 - The Texas Rangers' first spring training is underway at Municipal Field in Pompano Beach, Florida; in an interview, outfielder Roy Foster talks about his trade to the team; additional silent footage of Bob Short and Ted Williams at camp; Verne Lundquist reporting.
2:13, 18:00, 32:37 - Jean-Paul LeBlanc of the Dallas Black Hawks talks about their recent game against the Kansas City Blues; Jerry Haynes reporting.
3:23 - Sports reporter Verne Lundquist is seen skiing in Steamboat Springs, Colorado (Silent).
5:54 - (March 16, 1972) The Dallas County Commissioners Court agrees to make lever-voting machines available to both parties in the upcoming primary (Silent).
6:32, 18:27- (March 16, 1972) Doug Crouch, chairman of the Tarrant County Criminal Justice Council, discusses how computer data can provide officers with pertinent information about suspects at traffic stops; additional silent footage of Crouch addressing a meeting of city officials about a proposed computerized information center; Jerry Taff reporting.
7:55, 19:05 - A report on how police identify unknown corpses, beginning with missing persons files and Fort Worth Police Dept. identification cards; in an interview, Lt. Oliver Ball talks about the preliminary work to identify a body; Feliks Gwozdz, Tarrant County Medical Examiner, explains the autopsy process; additional silent footage of paperwork being reviewed inside the Identification Bureau office; police investigate a body at a crime scene and review fingerprints; a man works in a laboratory and Gwozdz conducts an autopsy, reviewing a jawbone; Jim Green reporting.
11:47, 22:20 - Harry Tanner, chairman of the Dallas Drug Abuse Council, talks about the group’s concern with having someone from within the "drug culture" be a voting member; Jack Hill reporting.
12:51, 23:07 - While riding a triple tandem bike, reporter Jeanne Luppen describes the bike trails of White Rock Lake Park – with her on the bike is her research assistant, Georgia Traylor, and District Traffic Engineer David Dick; Dick talks about the city’s bike routes; additional silent footage of the bike route and of the ride around the lake.
15:46, 25:23 - Texas Speaker of the House Gus Mutscher, State Rep. Tommy Shannon, and Mutscher's aide Rush McGinty have been found guilty on charges of conspiracy to accept a bribe in the stock fraud case known as the Sharpstown Scandal; various shots of people walking into the Taylor County Courthouse; a report goes on to describe the defense's character witnesses and the judge’s decision to give the defendants a 5-year probated sentence; at a press conference, Mutscher says that the jury was persuaded by publicity in this matter; he thanks those who have supported him and says that he is innocent; McGinty says that he is still unaware of what is was he did that was illegal; Shannon quotes scripture and says that he is innocent and will be vindicated; among the reporters in the courthouse is Molly Ivins (blue top) of the Texas Observer; Judi Hanna reporting.
28:44 - (March 15, 1972) After a Dallas Community Action (DCA) board meeting had ended at Booker T. Washington High School, a fight broke out between board member Romie Lilly and Roberto (Robert) Arredondo, husband of DCA Vice Chairman Frances Arredondo; various shots from the fight, of plainclothes detectives, and of the aftermath (Silent).
29:35, 34:03 - Dr. Charles H. Hartman, deputy administrator of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), discusses drunk driving and the need for stronger penalties for these cases; Harman is in Dallas for a quarterly meeting of regional NHTSA administrators; Donna Witkowski reporting.
30:32, 34:33 - (March 16, 1972) Richard L. Walker, author and expert on Far Eastern affairs, discusses what he sees as the target of Chinese Communist foreign policy (the U.S. relationship with Japan); Walker is in town to speak at a meeting of the Dallas Council on World Affairs; Jack Hill reporting.
33:07, 38:44 - Dave Reagan, a college professor from Sherman who is a Republican candidate for Governor, criticizes government bureaucracy.
35:43 - Tommy Lee Germany is in custody for the killing of Billy Joe Green and the subsequent abduction of 22-year-old Joyce Marie Miller from the Good Luck Drive-Inn in Dallas.
36:12 - Dallas Supt. Nolan Estes talks about the problems caused by forced school busing; Dean Angel reporting.
36:48, 37:20 - Dr. Viktor Levonovich Issraelyan, a Soviet diplomat, speaks on the nuclear arms race at the University of Texas at Arlington (UTA).
37:16 - Brief shot of a Fort Worth press conference.
