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[News Script: Dallas Vote]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about controversy surrounding the Dallas county gubernatorial vote and Judge Sarah T. Hughes' hearings to attempt to settle the issue.
Date: August 29, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Grand Jury Probes Fort Worth voting]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the continued canvassing of voting machines used in the runoff balloting for Ralph Yarborough and Senator Daniel. Grand Jury Foreman Buddy Thompson signs subpoenas for more than a dozen witnesses as the jury starts its probe of irregularities in box 120.
Date: August 29, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Council]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about dissatisfaction with some phases of the Fort Worth, Texas, city budget of almost 22-and-a-half million dollars, the highest budget in Fort Worth history at that time.
Date: August 29, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Dummy Hanging at Mansfield Probed]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the hanging of a red paint splattered, straw-stuffed dummy in effigy of an African American man in Mansfield, Texas, in response to the federal desegregation order demanding Mansfield admit thirteen African American students to its high school.
Date: August 29, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Fire]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a fire in Irving, Texas, that destroyed one home, damaged a second, started a grass fire in surrounding fields, and sent a burning station wagon driving off by itself - officials suspect the car was in reverse gear and that the fire somehow shorted the ignition, allowing the car to start.
Date: August 29, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Football]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a football game between Texas A & M and the University of Texas. Texas A & M wins.
Date: November 29, 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 station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering the weekly news report about a robbery, multiple shootings, a warehouse explosion, a train accident, and a house fire.
Date: December 29, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Fire Death]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a fire in the Mansfield home of Johnny M. Donnelly. He and two dogs were killed.
Date: November 29, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Texas Voters Hear Visiting Officials]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about Al Gore visiting Dallas en route to Lufkin. He says the H-bomb controversy is helping the Democratic cause, and that public awareness of the issue will lead them to support presidential nominee Stevenson. Former Oklahoma Governor Roy Turner and Oklahoma Senator Monroney also visit Fort Worth.
Date: October 29, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Arcade]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a passageway between Pacific and Elm Streets in Dallas. A turnstile has been installed, which requires pedestrians to pay a nickel to pass.
Date: November 29, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Burglars]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about two robbers, Eddie Lee Shelton and Leonard Kubick. They were captured by Fort Worth police as they robbed a drugstore.
Date: October 29, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Ahlberg]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about Lennert Ahlberg returning to Fort Worth. He is one of the survivors of the collision between the liners Stockholm and Andrea Doria.
Date: July 29, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Cage Clinic]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about an annual meeting of basketball officials from eleven major college conferences. Matty Bell, SMU athletic director, hosts the meeting, where the interpretation of basketball rules will be standardized.
Date: October 29, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Explosion]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a fire and subsequent explosion that took place and the Shamrock Oil and Gas Corporation tank-farm near Dumas. Nineteen men were killed.
Date: July 29, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Fire]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a fire at Mathes Cooling and Heating in Fort Worth. Flames destroy the two-story warehouse.
Date: July 29, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Wounded Policeman Sees Shrine Circus]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about Eddie Killiher, a policeman who was shot and ran over by a motorist. He leaves the hospital for the first time to visit the Shrine Circus.
Date: November 29, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Carswell Gate Crasher Captured]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the arrest of Ronnie Gunter. He crashed his car into a gate at Carswell Air Force Base, then eluded police for several hours.
Date: November 29, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Murder Trial]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a trial for Jo Ed Tissier, who is accused of murdering Charles Reynolds, a used car dealer. Tissier is believed to have been partners in crime with Ovie J. Steward.
Date: October 29, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Elvis Presley, Actor]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the release of the Elvis Presley film "Love Me Tender." Fans line up outside the Worth theater in Fort Worth.
Date: November 29, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Radio-TV Election Coverage]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about newsmen working to compile election results and broadcast them to viewers throughout the evening.
Date: July 29, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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