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[News Script: Youngest railroad head is optimistic]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about railroad president D. B. Jenks, the youngest president of a major railroad in the nation, meeting with rail officials in Fort Worth.
Date: March 19, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Train Carries 400 to Graham Revival]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about 400 Fort Worth Baptists boarding a Sante Fe train to Oklahoma City to hear Billy Graham, a famed evangelist. The train only carried the baptists with a totaly of eight coaches and a baggage car.
Date: June 19, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Train death]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about George W. Mays, who was struck by a freight train and was killed as a result.
Date: September 19, 1959
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Pierson returned to state hospital]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the recapture of Howard Merritt Pierson, a criminally insane man who murdered both his parents, after three years on the run as an escapee from an Austin mental institution. Pierson, who was captured in Syracuse, New York, is returned to an institution in Texas.
Date: December 19, 1955
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Derailment]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a Santa Fe train derailment in Oak Cliff. The engine was pulling 110 cars from Dallas to Cleburne when the accident occurred.
Date: June 19, 1958
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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