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[News Script: A&P Hijacking]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about an armed robbery at the Arlington Heights A&P Grocery Store just before 9pm; a masked and armed man later identified as Charles Ernest Eaves carjacked the wife of an employee who had arrived to pick up her husband forcing her inside the building and taking money from the cashier cage, fleeing just as police arrived. Shots were fired, two more officers joined the chase, and the by then wounded thief was tracke… more
Date: December 19, 1961
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Burglar]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about William Emerson, who captured two men at his auto supply store, which has been robbed several times in the last two months; the burglars turn out to be his son, Bobby Joe Emerson, who admitted to the thefts of oil and gas for the Black Hawk gang, and James Sidney Smith, who claimed not to know a robbery was happening. Although taken to the police station, Mr. Emerson chose not to press charges.
Date: December 9, 1961
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Burglary ring]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the arrest of four members of a group who stole a quantity of items from a Salvation Army warehouse in Dallas; 6 more members are sought for theft of the donations of food, clothing and household goods which were to have been distributed to victims of Hurricane Carla. Those arrested are: James Otis Russell, Pat Lou Wolfinburger, Flo Marie Lazo, and Ray Edward Morton, who is on the FBI wanted list; much of the… more
Date: December 10, 1961
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Leath]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the death warrant issued for Fred Thomas Leath for the shooting death of 15 year old Charles Henry of Fort Worth.
Date: October 7, 1961
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Manhunt ends]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the end of the manhunt for Claude Jean Wooldridge; wanted for robbing the Save Way store in Fort Worth, his partner and brother was captured earlier, but Claude eluded police for about 21 hours in and around the area where Denton, Dallas and Tarrant counties converge.
Date: December 27, 1961
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Narcotics]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the arrest of three suspects for dealing in narcotics; Nathaniel White, Richard Lee Reese, and John Shelton were arraigned before U.S. Commissioner Van Orden on charges of illegal possession and sale of heroin and held under a $10,000 bond after months of investigation, and having had them under surveillance for some time for suspected drug dealing.
Date: December 13, 1961
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Robber]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about Harold Wayne Greenwell's arraignment for the robbery of a bank in Washington D.C., and capture by the F.B.I.
Date: September 27, 1961
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Robbery]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a robbery at the Fowler Drive-In Grocery, where manger S.G. Walley and two others were forced at gunpoint into a cooler; police quickly identified and took into custody two men, one the owner of the get-away car, who claims not to have known anything until it happened, and Melvin "Butch" Morales, who confessed to being the gunman.
Date: December 26, 1961
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Robbery]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a robbery at Tom Scoma's shoe store in south Fort Worth; while a lookout stood outside, a younger male came in and hit 72-year old Scoma with several times with a wrench and stole $40. The lookout was captured by passers-by, and identified by Scoma at a lineup, while the younger man is still at large.
Date: December 9, 1961
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Save Way (Store)]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a robbery at the Save Way Store on East Belknap. The extensive coverage details the events of the robbery by Claude and Harold Wooldridge, who led police on a chase through Denton, Frisco, and into McKinney.
Date: December 27, 1961
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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