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[News Clip: The Texas News

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV television station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering news highlights from 1949-1950. This year in review presents excerpts from news stories covered in Texas and across the United States, including airplane crashes, human interest stories, politicians, "Texas Personalities," sports, and the Korean War.
Date: 1949
Duration: 13 minutes 29 seconds
Creator: KXAS-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)

[Proposed Greenwood Inn]

Description: Print of the proposed Greenwood Inn architectural illustration by Carter Properties. The Greenwood Inn is a 13-story building to be located at Mockingbird Lane and Stemmons Freeway in Dallas.
Date: [1950..]
Creator: Carter Properties

[News Script: News Briefs - Fortune Telling]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas relating a news story about a nineteen (19) year old black youth facing the justice of the peace on charges of vagrancy. The youth claimed he was ordained as a minister at the age of nine (9). The youth, who refers to himself as Father Joseph Brown, was charged last year on mail fraud.
Date: May 4, 1950
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)

[News Script: Activities of the Week]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas relating a news story about an oil well fire in Borden County near Big Springs burning for a week, killing a geologist when it blew out. Another fire in Dallas caused thousands of feet of motion picture film to burn, which exhausted 18 firemen. The women's trans-Mississippi golf tournament ended at Lakewood Country Club in Dallas with Marjorie Lindsay crowned the new champion.
Date: June 18, 1950
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)

[News Script: News Briefs - Jack Earle]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas relating a news story about former circus giant Jack Earle taking a job as a traveling salesman for a California wine-maker and giving a speech in front of a group of retail liquor dealers in Dallas, Texas.
Date: November 2, 1950
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)

[News Script: Ground Breaking]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas relating a news story about the Republic National Bank of Dallas holding a groundbreaking ceremony for its new building.
Date: November 29, 1950, 6:45 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)

[News Script: Jones Trial]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas relating a news story about a murder trial in Kaufman County courthouse for the murder of George A. Vadere by former Dallas police chief R. L. Bob Jones. This is the second time Jones has been tried for murder, the first attempt resulting in a hung jury.
Date: November 30, 1950
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)

[News Script: Dallas Fire]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas relating a news story about a fire in downtown Dallas burning two brick business buildings and damaging nine homes.
Date: December 5, 1950, 6:45 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)

[News Script: Bowl show]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the Cotton Bowl football game between the University of Texas and the University of Tennessee at the State Fair of Texas in Dallas. Tennessee wins the game 20-14.
Date: January 3, 1951
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)

[News Script: New R. F. C. Chief]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about Charles L. South being named head of the Dallas Office of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation, succeeding L. R. Glidden.
Date: January 4, 1951
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)

[News Script: News briefs]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering two news stories. The first story is about a Fort Worth exhibit of curiosities by Robert Ripley. The second story is about a Dallas grocer happy that burglars with nitroglycerin charges were unable to crack his state-of-the-art safe.
Date: January 4, 1951
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)

[News Script: Help wanted]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a drive by the U.S. State Department in Dallas to recruit personnel to combat Soviet propaganda abroad.
Date: January 5, 1951
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)

[News Script: News briefs]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering three news stories. The first is about a concert at Texas Christian University by opera singer Miss Lois Toman. The second is about the wife of a convicted drugstore robber being arraigned in court on charges that she smuggled a gun to her husband while he was in jail to assist with an escape attempt. The third is about six Lubbock police officers arriving in Fort Worth to study traffic patterns and accident investigation.
Date: January 5, 1951
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)

[News Script: Personalities of the week]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering news stories about a Marine corporal unexpectedly returning from Korea and his wife giving birth to a son only a few hours later; the daughter of an Air Force veteran signing up for the Women's Air Force in Dallas, a farewell dinner in Fort Worth for the vice president of an aircraft plant, and a new head football coach at Polytechnical High School in Fort Worth.
Date: January 7, 1951
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
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