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[News Script: Add to Halloween]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about Dallas merchants allowing 600 Dallas students to decorate 108 merchant windows for Halloween, hoping to curb the desire to vandalize.
Date: October 30, 1953
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)

[News Script: Air Force cadets]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the U.S. Air Force lowering its educational requirements for admission to the aviation cadet program, now allowing high school graduates to enlist.
Date: July 30, 1953
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)

[News Script: Big turtle]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the Fort Worth Children's Museum acquiring Bobo, an over-sized alligator snapping turtle.
Date: April 30, 1953
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)

[News Script: Billy Graham]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the final service of evangelist Billy Graham's month-long religious revival program at the Cotton Bowl in Dallas.
Date: June 30, 1953
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)

[News Script: Bombing]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a bombing at the Pay and Take grocery store in West Dallas.
Date: August 30, 1953
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)

[News Script: Clues sought in mystery slaying]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the unsolved murder of an unmarried Highland Park woman, Miss Selma Adele Ullman, who was beaten to death in her home. The script goes on to describe a separate incident of a nearly-blind Fort Worth man, Dean Washington McAdams, arrested for non-fatally shooting his teenaged son during an argument.
Date: August 30, 1953
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)

[News Script: Cops]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about police officers Homer Burris, Charles Sansone, and J. W. Fuller appealing their case on felony theft.
Date: July 30, 1953
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)

[News Script: Crop food for Germans]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about citizens of Caldwell County raising money to donate thousands of pounds of flour to West Germany, to feed refugees from Communist East Germany.
Date: July 30, 1953
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)

[News Script: Demo chairman]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about Democratic National Chairman Steve Mitchell arriving in Fort Worth to meet with north Texas political leaders.
Date: June 30, 1953
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)

[News Script: Flood]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about heavy rains in South Texas causing the Rio Grande and its tributaries to flood towns throughout the region, forcing evacuations.
Date: August 30, 1953
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)

[News Script: Gas blaze]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a gas well explosion and subsequent fire on a drilling platform in the Gulf of Mexico.
Date: January 30, 1953
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)

[News Script: Hoodlums advised to leave town]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about Fort Worth police and District Attorney Fender advising four gang-affiliated suspects in a recent string of crimes to leave the city permanently or be arrested on sight.
Date: December 30, 1953
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
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