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[News Script: Monorail]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about consideration for a monorail inside the State Fair of Texas. It would be the first functioning monorail in the United States.
Date: July 26, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Five Hoxsey doctors to lose licenses]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about Harry Hoxsey and five of his staff doctors whose licenses were suspended for one year due to unethical practices. The doctors are Charles P. Barberee, Douglas C. Logan, Benjamin A. Harry, Alfred H. Staffa, and William E. Stokes.
Date: July 16, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Traffic crash]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a traffic accident between a heavily-loaded truck and two vehicles. Five people were killed and five were seriously injured.
Date: July 24, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Peters say law to end his career]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a Louisiana bill which bans interracial sports. The bill may mean that Shreveport sports will be moved out of the Texas league.
Date: July 16, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Moore]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about Tom Moore, the McLennan County District Attorney and his campaign for State Attorney General.
Date: July 11, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Bob Hope]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about Bob Hope's arrival in Dallas to promote the movie "That Certain Feeling."
Date: July 12, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Brucker]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the arrival of Wilbur M. Brucker, Secretary of the Army. He arrives for ceremonies concerning the transition of Wolters Air Force Base to Camp Wolters, an army installation.
Date: July 13, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Hog]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a hog owned by Reverend C. H. Henderson, which looks like a Hereford. It is known as a "White Faced Hereford Hog."
Date: July 6, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Cardinal]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about Bishop Thomas K. Gormon of the Dallas-Fort Worth diocese and his twenty-fifth anniversary of his consecration as a bishop. Several bishops from around the country arrive to celebrate the occasion.
Date: July 18, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Driverless truck slams into house]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a delivery truck that smashed into the house of E. M. Brewster in Oak Cliff. The emergency brake on the truck failed, causing it to reverse into the home.
Date: July 20, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Dogs]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a quarantine for dogs in Fort Worth. The quarantine is a result of an increase in rabies cases.
Date: July 31, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Chileans]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about several Chilean Air Force officers visiting in Fort Worth. They are on their way to Wichita, Kansas to retrieve several planes and fly them back to Chile.
Date: July 12, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Beck]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about Dave Beck, president of the International Teamsters Union, and his arrival in Dallas. He says his union should support President Eisenhower for re-election.
Date: July 12, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Generous bandit robs cafeteria]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a robbery at the Dunton Cafeteria in the Casa View shopping senior in Dallas. Janitor F. W. Spencer says the cafeteria was robbed by a masked gunman who enlisted his services to help break open a safe.
Date: July 27, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Trailer yields no clues to ex-cons]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about police searching for Edward Eugene Townley, Betty Jo Townley, and Wilbur Jay Hunt. A gang member and ex-convict, Townley bought a trailer on credit, but doesn't seem to have lived there for nearly a month.
Date: July 12, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Hagler]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about Mrs. Elisabeth Bergmann Hagler, wife of David Fred Hagler, key figure in an Oklahoma torch-murder. Mrs. Hagler divorces her husband in a short hearing at the Tarrant County Courthouse.
Date: July 24, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Train truck accident]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a man, Tiny Jordan, escaping from an impending collision between his truck and an oncoming freight train.
Date: July 8, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Baseball]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a meeting between Texas League club owners about Shreveport Sports' plan to remain in the league. This is in spite of the new Louisiana law that bans inter-racial athletic contests.
Date: July 19, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Dogs]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a quarantine being put into effect for dogs in Dallas. The quarantine is a result of a rabies outbreak.
Date: July 9, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Indian babe]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV television station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story about Pakistani actress Bgum Zohra Arshad visiting Dallas to promote a new film.
Date: May 30, 1956
Duration: 48 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Disc jockey stays on air 100 hours]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV television station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story about Dallas DJ Gene Weed breaking the disc jockey marathon record by being on the air for over 100 hours straight.
Date: May 25, 1956
Duration: 1 minute 23 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: News briefs -- blast]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV television station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story about a diesel fuel explosion near Hutchins that sent a county employee to the hospital with severe burns.
Date: May 23, 1956
Duration: 1 minute 20 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Stevenson has high praise for Johnson]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV television station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story about Adlai Stevenson, the Democratic presidential nominee in 1952, stopping by Fort Worth on his way to Florida for a Democratic primary contest.
Date: May 18, 1956
Duration: 1 minute 09 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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