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[News Script: Tornado]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a tornado and severe weather in Cleburne, Midlothian, and Britton, and the damage that was sustained.
Date: August 31, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Script

[News Script: Baseball]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a dinner honoring two Texas League baseball players who set and broke the home run record.
Date: August 31, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Script
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[News Clip: Tornado, Parade, Baseball]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story about a tornado and severe weather in Cleburne, Midlothian, and Britton, and the damage that was sustained, a carnival to be held at the Fair Park Foods Building in Dallas, Texas, as a fund raising project for the National Polio Foundation, and a dinner honoring two Texas League baseball players who set and broke the home run record.
Date: August 31, 1956
Duration: 5 minutes 34 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Video

[News Script: Robberies]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about Benjamin Henry Pruitt, a student at Polytechnic High School, admitting to three armed robberies. Pruitt was free on bond, after his five-year prison sentence for murder was overturned.
Date: October 31, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Script

[News Script: Waples-Platter Hijacking]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a forty-year-old man robbing five-hundred dollars from the Waples-Platter wholesale company. Arial Smith and Dillard Ames recount the events.
Date: October 31, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Script

[News Script: Curtis Injury Minor]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about Chuck Curtis, the Quarterback for the TCU Horned Frogs. He suffered a minor kidney injury, but is expected to play in the upcoming game against Baylor.
Date: October 31, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Script

[News Script: Dogs]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a quarantine for dogs in Fort Worth. The quarantine is a result of an increase in rabies cases.
Date: July 31, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Script

[News Script: City Council]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a Dallas City Council meeting, where the sale of six-and-a-half-million dollars worth of bonds is approved. The bonds are for improvement to Love Field, including the addition of a new terminal. The Fort Worth City Council meets to discuss issues on the city's water supply. The council approves of a plan which would create two reservoirs near Corsicana.
Date: October 31, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Script

[News Script: Old employee]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about ninety-three-year-old George W. Parker, Fort Worth's Federal District Court Clerk. He ends his sixty-one year career with the final official act of logging in a district court suit. Parker is retiring due to a new federal law, which sets the retirement age at seventy.
Date: October 31, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Script

[News Script: Ice]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a contest by Reemaire conditioning. The contest entails people guessing when a forty-ton block of ice will melt.
Date: July 31, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Script

[News Script: B-58]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about news cameramen and other onlookers gathering at the Convair plant in Fort Worth. They hope to see the first flight of the B-58 bomber.
Date: October 31, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Script

[News Script: Moccasins]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about moccasins, which are made in Fort Worth and sold in Arizona. Nat Rakoover owns the Texas Sandal and Moccasin Company, which makes the shoes.
Date: July 31, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Script

[News Script: Suspects]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about three men suspected of robbing a Fort Worth food market turning themselves over to police custody.
Date: May 31, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Script

[News Script: Rodeo]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a rodeo contest at the sixtieth annual Southwestern Exposition and Fat Stock Show Rodeo in Fort Worth.
Date: January 31, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Script

[News Script: Weather]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about severe storms across Texas causing flooding and automobile accidents.
Date: May 31, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Script

[News Script: City Hall Porter Admits Robberies]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about Lavarn "Lightning" Lighner, who admits to robbing six service stations in the past month. In the day, he worked at police headquarters. He was arrested by Saginaw police officers Ben Moorman and Mike Howard.
Date: January 31, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Script

[News Script: Explosion and fire wreck pastor's home]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about an explosion and fire destroying a parsonage at the Oak View Baptist Church in Fort Worth, caused by a flammable chemical spray county employees were using inside the house to exterminate insects. No one was injured in the blast, but the residence was completely destroyed.
Date: May 31, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Script

[News Script: Water Bond Election]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a water bond issue in which a contract would be approved between the city of Dallas and the Sabine River Authority of Texas for the construction of a new reservoir. It appears that voters are in favor of the proposition.
Date: January 31, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Script

[News Script: Cassidy trial]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the trial of former Fort Worth policeman Tex Cassidy, accused of theft after writing several fraudulent checks. Cassidy is declared innocent by the jury.
Date: May 31, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Script

[News Script: Ex Wrestling Champ is Seeking Damages]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about Ed "Strangler" Lewis, the former World's Heavyweight Wrestling Champion, going to trial against the Hilton Hotel. He seeks one-hundred-thousand dollars in damages he incurred from falling into an open service pit.
Date: January 31, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Script

[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 young lost girl in Fort Worth returned to her parents by police. The second story is about Norman Saksvig, retired world champion typist, demonstrating his talent at a Dallas store.
Date: January 31, 1951
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Script
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