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[News Script: Attica update/ Alabama school]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about lawyers representing prisoners of the Attica prison, obtaining a federal court order blocking interrogation of inmates about the Attica riot. In other news, a federal judge has ordered a city school system in Alabama to turn its authority to the school board.
Date: 1971-09-24T24:00:00
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)

[News Script: Attica inmates]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about lawyers being allowed to visit their prisoner-clients inside New York State Attica prison.
Date: September 17, 1971, 12:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)

[News Script: Attica/ Hickel]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about Europe's reaction to the published accounts of the Attica prison riot where 43 deaths occurred. The newspapers blamed racial tension and the U. S. penal system drove the inmates to the desperate uprising. Back in the United States, the first two funerals for guards slain in the prison riot will be held in New York and benefits amounting to three times the annual salary will be paid to the family of the guards.
Date: September 15, 1971, 6:30 a.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
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