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[News Script: Shivers defends land transaction]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about an address by Texas Governor Allan Shivers at a convention of the Veterans of Foreign Wars. The governor addresses an ongoing controversy in the media regarding a land transaction he made in 1946.
Date: June 25, 1954
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)

[News Script: Fire]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a fire at a Dallas home that left three children dead. Three other children in the home were saved from the blaze by their babysitter.
Date: November 10, 1954
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)

[News Script: Hagler case]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about proceedings in the case of David Fred Hagler Jr., a Fort Worth businessman accused of burning a still-unidentified man to death in a car near Davis, Oklahoma.
Date: October 19, 1954
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)

[News Script: Joe Bonds jailed on morals charge]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the surrender and arrest by Dallas police of nightclub operator Joe Bonds, accused of sexual offenses against teenage girls and liquor code violations at his downtown nightclub.
Date: October 19, 1954
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)

[News Script: Carswell colonel retires]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a retirement ceremony at Fort Worth's Carswell Air Force Base for Colonel Alva S. Hascall, a 30-year veteran of the U.S. Air Force.
Date: November 7, 1954
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)

[News Script: "Atomic Healer" ordered to jail]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the jailing in Dallas of self-styled alternative healer William Estep, accused of fraud and violation of state medical practices after claiming his "atomotrone" device could cure any disease.
Date: September 17, 1954
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)

[News Script: Accident]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a traffic accident between an automobile and a dump truck at an intersection in Dallas. A passenger in the car suffered serious injuries, but injuries to the drivers of both vehicles were minor.
Date: August 19, 1954
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)

[News Script: Mustangs beat TCU Frogs]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the Southern Methodist University Mustangs defeating the Texas Christian University Horned Frogs at the Cotton Bowl in Dallas.
Date: November 28, 1954
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
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