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- ↑ "Pueblo ABC Theatre". Television Academy. Retrieved 10 March 2018.
- ↑ O'Connor, John J. (29 March 1973). "TV: A.B.C. 'Re-Creates' Pueblo Story". The New York Times. Retrieved 10 March 2018– via NYTimes.com.
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