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[News Script: News brief -- Playford]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a ceremony honoring Dallas Country Sheriff's Deputy W. E. Playford, who has been appointed chief of police in the town of Lancaster.
Date: November 10, 1954
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Beard files libel suit against board]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a libel suit filed against the Irving school board by discharged Superintendant Dr. John L. Beard, who claims the district has made several defamatory statements about him.
Date: March 23, 1955
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Youths blamed in grass fires]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a series of grass fires in the Dallas area blamed on four youths, arrested on suspicion of intentionally setting the blazes. No one was injured in the string of fires.
Date: September 16, 1954
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Negroes make new enrollment move]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about black parents in the Wilmer-Hutchins Independent School District making an attempt to enroll their children in white schools.
Date: September 8, 1954
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Negro reads Bible as jurors selected]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about jury selection in the trial of Flaudell Fite, a Dallas man accused of raping a Garland teenager.
Date: September 13, 1955
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Dallas Weather]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a severe storm in Dallas and the damage sustained in Richardson and South Oak Cliff.
Date: August 30, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: The week in review]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering the major news stories of the past week, including a teenager's death in an automobile accident, a Dallas tax consultant indicted for fraud, a blood drive for leukemia research at an Irving church, the closing of a popular but seedy bar inside the Love Field terminal, and the shooting of a wayward skunk at an Oak Cliff shopping center.
Date: February 1, 1958
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Water well]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the communities of Riley and Kleberg drilling a water well to service both communities.
Date: March 29, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: First all woman jury hears case]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the vagrancy trial of a Dallas woman accused of prostitution. For possibly the first time in Texas history, the jury chosen by Justice of the Peace Bill Richburg is made up entirely of women.
Date: November 10, 1954
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Preachers]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about "Clergy Day" at Hensley Field in Grand Prairie, with ministers from churches around the county invited to tour the facility and view its jet aircraft.
Date: December 12, 1955
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Housing]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about two investigators of the U.S. Senate Banking and Currency committee investigating the quality of veterans housing in Dallas and Irving.
Date: October 31, 1954
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Irving]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a squabble between an Irving school principal and the father of one of his school's students.
Date: March 22, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Hard luck thieves]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about two youths apprehended by police after attempting to steal a large assortment of items from the Jap Lee Airport near Irving.
Date: December 9, 1957
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Nobody will claim dog in suitcase]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a dog found hidden in an overnight case that had been stolen from a car and 150 rabbits left over from the Easter season being temporarily homed at the S.P.C.A.
Date: April 19, 1955
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Dallas to re-lane Garland road]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the Dallas Power and Light Company electing to re-lane a stretch of road in the city after several accidents are caused by light poles.
Date: June 26, 1957
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: 11 Katy freight cars derailed]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about eleven freight cars of a train derailing for unknown reasons in far north Dallas. No one was injured.
Date: August 12, 1954
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Storm news brief]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about storm hitting the Dallas area.
Date: July 8, 1954
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Jury ends probe of Dallas police]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a jury probe of police corruption in Dallas.
Date: July 10, 1953
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: McCraw sworn into judicial post]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about William McCraw, former Texas attorney general, appointed by Governor Allan Shivers as the new criminal district judge for Dallas County.
Date: September 22, 1954
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: News Briefs - Manhunt]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the Dallas County Sheriff Bill Decker leading a manhunt to catch David Valentine, accused of shooting William Bryant.
Date: January 5, 1955
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Wolves]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about two newsmen attempting to find wolves in northeast Dallas, as farmers are complaining that the wolves are molesting their livestock.
Date: September 7, 1955
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Unique but useless bridge is doomed]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about an old, useless swing-span bridge in Southeast Dallas County being torn down.
Date: April 10, 1955
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Grandma]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a 103rd birthday party for a Pleasant Grove woman, Ella Feagin.
Date: August 14, 1955
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Dallas county accidents]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a fatal auto accident in northern Dallas county, between Laura Wallis Wells, who was killed, and Lemmuel Jacobs.
Date: November 1, 1951
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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