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[News Script: Jail break plot]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about an attempted jailbreak foiled by officers at the Dallas County Jail.
Date: September 23, 1954
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Bond hearing for Petersen goes on]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a bond hearing for accused murderer Keith Lewis Petersen in Dallas. Petersen was previously ruled mentally unfit to stand trial, but is now judged sane.
Date: November 23, 1954
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Jones boys sentenced]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the sentencing of brothers James Hollis Jones and Ralph Franklin Jones for attempting to extort large amounts of money from prominent Jewish families in Dallas. Both are sentenced to time in federal prison.
Date: September 23, 1954
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Body of woman is identified]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the identification of a woman's body found on the bank of the Trinity River in Fort Worth. The woman is found to be Anna Marie Breaux, a Dallas prostitute.
Date: November 23, 1954
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: News briefs]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a car accident in Fort Worth involving a truck, two pick-up trucks, a fireplug, and a cafe; also covered, three Chinese Nationalist generals stopping by Dallas after a 30-day tour of the U.S. War College.
Date: July 23, 1954
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Runaway car is chained to tree]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a Dallas homeowner chaining a car to a tree in her yard after the driver crashed it through her fence and abandoned it. The homeowner, Mrs. Lucile Price, seeks money from the driver before she says she will release the car.
Date: June 23, 1954
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Petitions seek Batchelor amnesty]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a campaign by a Dallas woman for the freedom of Corporal Claude Batchelor, a Texas soldier sentenced to 20 years of hard labor after accusations of collaborating with the enemy while a prisoner of war in Korea.
Date: November 23, 1954
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Traffic blocked by bridge fire]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a bridge fire at the intersection of Oak Lawn and Harry Hines blocking traffic in Dallas and the city's 31st fire fatality occurring in downtown Dallas that same day.
Date: December 23, 1954
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 college football game between the freshman teams of Southern Methodist University and Texas Christian University. SMU wins the game 41-13.
Date: November 23, 1954
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Garland women seek jury duty]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the Texas Federation of Business and Professional Women's Clubs campaigning for the right to serve on juries in the state.
Date: September 23, 1954
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Candidates make final vote pleas]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the day before election day in Texas, with candidates making final campaign stops throughout the state. Governor Allan Shivers, seeking a third term, makes a statewide radio broadcast from the Adolphus Hotel in Dallas.
Date: July 23, 1954
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: News Briefs - White]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering three news stories about a set of precisely identical twins, Walter White from the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People arriving in Dallas, as well as the arrival of James Barrington, the Burmese ambassador to the United States.
Date: April 23, 1954
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Jack Todd is on trial for murder]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the trial of Dallas ex-convict Jack Todd, accused of fatally shooting a man following a bar fight. Todd's trial is moved to Cleburne by Dallas District Judge Henry King to ensure fairness.
Date: February 23, 1954
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Protection for jittery women]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a display of protection items at a Dallas gift and jewelry show intended to be used by women to discourage assaults.
Date: February 23, 1954
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: FCC commissioner]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the spring convention of the Texas Association of Broadcasters in Dallas, with employees from hundreds of television and radio stations attending to hear a speech by Federal Communications Commissioner Robert T. Bartley.
Date: April 23, 1954
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: News briefs - Cops]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the Dallas Police Department swearing in 16 new police officers.
Date: July 23, 1954
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Jury sought for trial of Walker]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about Dallas Criminal District Court seeking out unbiased jurors for the murder trial of Tommy Lee Walker, who was accused of stabbing Mrs. H.C. Parker of Dallas to death.
Date: March 23, 1954
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Boxing]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the AAU boxing tournament in Dallas. Winners of the tournament were selected to represent Texas in the national AAU tournament.
Date: April 23, 1954
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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