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[News Script: Reservist injured in plane crash]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the crash of an Air National Guard training plane at Hensley Field in Grand Prairie after the aircraft experienced engine trouble on takeoff. One of the two men in the plane is slightly injured after the plane struck the ground.
Date: December 1, 1954
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)

[News Script: Traffic safety record]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the city of Fort Worth passing its 90th day without a traffic death - the longest stretch attained by the city.
Date: October 13, 1954
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)

[News Script: Football]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the 49th annual University of Oklahoma-University of Texas football game in the Cotton Bowl at the State Fair of Texas in Dallas. Oklahoma wins the game 14-7.
Date: October 10, 1954
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)

[News Script: Missing girl]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a missing young girl in Fort Worth, with kidnapping charges filed against her uncle. The girl's whereabouts are still unknown after her uncle is apprehended.
Date: November 19, 1954
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)

[News Script: Murder suspect is found sane]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a sanity hearing for Joe Martinez, a Dallas man accused of murdering a bus driver. The court rules Martinez of sound mind, forcing him to stand trial.
Date: November 3, 1954
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)

[News Script: Woman and child killed by train]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a woman and young boy killed by a train in Fort Worth, after the two were struck while walking along a railroad overpass and thrown to the street below.
Date: August 27, 1954
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)

[News Script: CIO support for Yarborough denied]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the CIO Communications Workers of America, a labor union, declining to endorse a candidate in the Democratic runoff for Texas governor between Governor Allan Shivers and Ralph Yarborough.
Date: August 31, 1954
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)

[News Script: Jones boys sentenced]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the sentencing of brothers James Hollis Jones and Ralph Franklin Jones for attempting to extort large amounts of money from prominent Jewish families in Dallas. Both are sentenced to time in federal prison.
Date: September 23, 1954
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)

[News Script: Cotton queen]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the crowning of the 1954 Cotton Queen beauty contest winner at the State Fair of Texas in Dallas.
Date: October 12, 1954
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)

[News Script: Fender's Raid]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about District Attorney Howard Fender requesting special funding in order to combat the return of gambling to Fort Worth.
Date: September 23, 1954
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)

[News Script: Gems exhibit]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the arrival of a collection of extremely valuable and rare diamonds in Dallas, to be displayed at the State Fair.
Date: October 6, 1954
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)

[News Script: Writ hearing]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a hearing in the case of Bobby Joe Babb, a Dallas aircraft worker charged with maiming a police officer after striking an arresting officer in the eye while handcuffed and damaging his vision.
Date: November 12, 1954
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
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