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[News Script: Gulf storm ends Texas hear wave]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about rainfall caused by a tropical storm ending one of the most severe July heat waves in Texas history. The rain also caused several traffic accidents around the DFW area.
Date: July 30, 1954
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Wright blames politics for charge]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about Congressional Candidate Jim Wright of Weatherford being charged with conducting a scheme for obtaining money through the mails. Wright maintained the charge was politically-motivated; his political rival claimed ignorance of the circumstances.
Date: June 30, 1954
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Storm FW]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about tornado-like winds striking Fort Worth and Dallas. The storm caused hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of damage and numerous injuries, but no deaths.
Date: April 30, 1954
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Polio test plans are explained]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about Tarrant County's plans to administer the polio vaccine to nearly 9,000 second graders. The mass vaccination would be performed by volunteer doctors, who were to be assisted by local mothers.
Date: March 30, 1954
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Miss Texas turns tables on artist]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about Australian caricature artist Gordon Currie stopping in Dallas during his nationwide tour. The 1954 Miss Texas, Yvonne Erwin, was offended by her caricature.
Date: July 30, 1954
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Peace in Korea blamed for slump]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about Secretary of Commerce Sinclair Weeks stopping by Dallas en route to San Antonio and Houston for speaking engagements. Weeks blamed the nation's economic slump on peace in Korea.
Date: March 30, 1954
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: News brief - Beauty contest]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a beauty contest held at Fair Park in Dallas, where 13 ladies seek the title "Miss Dallas" in order to represent Dallas at the Miss Texas pageant in Fort Worth, and the story of Bob Burklow, a Fort Worth constable injured in a shooting, arriving to Fort Worth from a veterans hospital in Memphis, Tennessee.
Date: May 30, 1954
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Polio]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a Fort Worth medical committee meeting to discuss the polio inoculation program.
Date: April 30, 1954
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Anderson gets award at Dallas]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about Deputy Secretary of Defense Robert B. Anderson of Vernon, Texas receiving the A. Harris and Company Texan Award. Speaking at the award ceremony was Texas Senator Lyndon Johnson.
Date: May 30, 1954
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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