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[News Script: Beauty contests]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about several beauty contests for men and women in Dallas and Fort Worth, including the Mister and Miss Texas competition among athletes at the Southwestern AAU Weightlifting Meet.
Date: May 2, 1954
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)

[News Script: Bennett trial]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the rape trial of Calvin Ray Bennett in which he pleads guilty as charged and another story about an attempted rape of an 11 year old girl by an unidentified male.
Date: December 2, 1954
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)

[News Script: Boys blamed in four alarm fire]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news stories about three different fires in Dallas, Texas. One is caused by a group of boys in a house, another breaks out in the storeroom of Campbell Book Store, and the final one breaks out downtown.
Date: June 2, 1954
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)

[News Script: Braille classes]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a group of Dallas women taking braille classes offered by the local elementary school in order to better communicate with their blind children and grandchildren.
Date: March 2, 1954
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)

[News Script: Carleton seeks fire insurance]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about Fort Worth City Councilman T. L. Carleton going to civil court seeking fire insurance payments after his radio supply company burned down. Carleton was previously accused of setting the fire himself, but was acquitted in criminal court.
Date: November 2, 1954
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)

[News Script: Chute drop in vain]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about Don Richards, of Abilene, Texas, arriving to his physical examination at Dallas Naval Air Station using a parachute and private plane.
Date: May 2, 1954
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)

[News Script: Dagmar]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about actress Dagmar visiting Fort Worth as the guest of honor at the Riverside Lion's Club luncheon.
Date: July 2, 1954
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)

[News Script: Demo women hear party chief]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about Katie Louchheim, director of women's activities of the Democratic National Committee, concluding her tour of Texas in Fort Worth. Louchheim went on her tour as part of a campaign to encourage women to participate in politics.
Date: June 2, 1954
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)

[News Script: Giants shut out Indians 4 to 0]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the first baseball game of 1954 at LaGrave Field in Fort Worth, where the New York Giants faced off against the Cleveland Indians. The Giants won 4 to 0.
Date: April 2, 1954
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)

[News Script: Haunted house burglary probed]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about four youths spending the night in a supposedly haunted abandoned house in Dallas on a bet, discovering $2,500 in cash and securities in a stack of old newspapers, and being arrested after their spending spree draws the attention of authorities. The remaining money is returned to its rightful owner.
Date: March 2, 1954
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
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