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[News Clip: Announcement]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about an announcement of highlights from 1954 that will run on Channel 5 the same evening.
Date: December 31, 1954
Duration: 17 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
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[News Clip: Cotton Bowl]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about the building anticipation for the Cotton Bowl game in Dallas, Texas.
Date: December 31, 1954
Duration: 1 minute 50 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
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[News Clip: Negro debutantes are presented]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about seven 1954 debutantes being presented at the annual Ambassador's Club Ball in the North Side Coliseum.
Date: December 31, 1954
Duration: 1 minute 47 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
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[News Clip: Roof caves in]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about the roof of a Dallas shopping center caving in under its own weight during construction. Three construction workers were injured in the collapse, but none seriously.
Date: December 31, 1954
Duration: 56 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
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[News Clip: Sightless woman seeks new eyes]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about a sightless Fort Worth woman selling her home in order to afford a cornea transplant that could restore her vision.
Date: December 31, 1954
Duration: 1 minute
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)

[News Script: Announcement]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about an announcement of highlights from 1954 that will run on Channel 5 the same evening.
Date: December 31, 1954
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)

[News Script: Batchelor]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about Claude Batchelor returning to Texas from Korea and Thurman Priest slaying his niece.
Date: December 31, 1954
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)

[News Script: Brown case]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the case of Hugh A. Brown, being found guilty of the poisoning murder of his wife, Viola Griffin Brown, then poisoning himself in the courtroom, where he died.
Date: December 31, 1954
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)

[News Script: Desegregation]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the effects of the Supreme Court decision banning segregation in public schools.
Date: December 31, 1954
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)

[News Script: Extortion plot]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the FBI capturing James Hollis Jones, a Dallas man later convicted of extorting prominent Jewish families in the city with threatening letters demanding money. Jones was sentenced to 20 years in prison.
Date: December 31, 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 a look back at a New Year's Day football game between the Rice Owls and the Alabama Crimson Tide, in which Tommy Lewis made an off-the-bench tackle that got him invited to the Ed Sullivan show.
Date: December 31, 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 the details of the Hagler case, in which an unidentified charred corpse was found in a burnt car in Oklahoma.
Date: December 31, 1954
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)

[News Script: Insurance]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, revisiting the year's major local news stories, including a scandal over lax enforcement of insurance law in the state, along with the escape and recapture of a python at Fort Worth's Forest Park Zoo.
Date: December 31, 1954
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)

[News Script: Ledge rescue]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a foiled suicide attempt by a Houston postal worker on the ledge of a Dallas hotel, along with a plane crash at a boat company in Grand Prairie that killed two workers.
Date: December 31, 1954
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)

[News Script: Parr]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about 1954's most popular news story: the investigation of George Parr over his alleged misuse of public funds that resulted in 104 indictments being returned against Parr and others.
Date: December 31, 1954
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)

[News Script: Review of 1954]

Description: List from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, listing stories included on the 1954 review reel. Items include Duval politics, Gubernatorial race, Rio Grande flood, Drought in Texas, Hagler case, Desegregation, Charges re insurance laws, Pete the Python, Claude Batchelor, Priest case, Viola Brown poisoned, Jones Bros. extortion plot, Houston ledge rescue, F-80 crashes into boat work, Color telecast, Off-the-bench tackle, Two lakes open to fishers, Polio vaccine administered.
Date: December 31, 1954
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
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