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[News Script: Irving school election]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about Dallas County Judge Lew Sterrett calling for an election to determine whether or not the Irving Independent School District should continue to operate.
Date: March 10, 1955
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Petersen takes life sentence]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about Keith Lewis Petersen, who shot his girlfriend to death in Dallas, receiving a life sentence for the murder after spending 5 years in state mental facilities.
Date: January 18, 1955
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Mrs. Lee trial]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about 26-year-old Dallas woman Elsie May Lee standing trial for the murder of her husband.
Date: March 25, 1955
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Bar Association]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about members of the State Bar Association convening in Dallas to hear an address by U.S. District Judge William C. Mathes.
Date: July 1, 1955
Duration: 1 minute 37 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
captions transcript

[News Clip: Injunction denied in auto tax case]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about a controversy in Dallas District Court over an election over automobile license fees.
Date: October 25, 1955
Duration: 2 minutes 38 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
captions transcript

[News Clip: McGowan considers appealing sentence]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about the trial of Raymond F. McGowan, a Dallas man accused of shooting and killing his estranged wife at a Waco tourist cabin. McGowan's intended target was his wife's lover, who was also killed. McGowan is sentenced to prison time.
Date: September 26, 1955
Duration: 2 minutes 08 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
captions transcript

[News Clip: Thornton outlines state road plans]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about State Highway Commission Chairman E.H. Thornton, Jr. announcing that money set aside for Dallas County road projects would go to something else unless the county hurried in buying the right-of-way.
Date: September 27, 1955
Duration: 2 minutes 31 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Fite trial]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the trial of Flaudell Fite, a Dallas man accused of raping a Garland teenager. Fite is found guilty, and sentenced to the death penalty.
Date: September 15, 1955
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Margo wins court decision on play]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about Margo Jones, manager of Dallas Theater 55, winning a court case against New York producer Herman Shumlin. Shumlin sought to prevent Jones from staging Inherit the Wind, a play he was currently producing on Broadway but had opened in Dallas earlier in the year.
Date: May 31, 1955
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Dallas vice trial of lawyer postponed]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the trial of a former lawyer accused of running a "bawdy house" in Dallas being postponed due to his attorneys trying to get the charges dismissed.
Date: June 8, 1955
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Woman gets new trial in pill case]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about Judge Joe Brown granting a Dallas county mother, Betty Ruth Rogers, a new trial after she was convicted of possession of a single amphetamine pill and sentenced to one year in jail.
Date: June 10, 1955
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Hearing for murder suspects postponed]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about proceedings in the murder trial of Louis D. Young, a Dallas man accused of killing a service station attendant during a robbery attempt. Young, along with his alleged accomplice, Teddy Wayne Wilcher, have their hearing postponed for another day.
Date: April 22, 1955
Duration: 1 minute 38 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
captions transcript

[News Clip: Man, wife sworn in as Texas lawyers]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about a husband and wife in Dallas both taking the oath to practice law in Texas, one of the few married legal teams in the state.
Date: April 22, 1955
Duration: 1 minute 41 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Drowning]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about the accidental drowning of Curtis Burns and the suicidal drowning of Albert Roach.
Date: May 1, 1955
Duration: 2 minutes
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Mrs. Lee to appeal murder sentence]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about Elsie Lee requesting a new trial after being convicted of murdering her husband, Marcellus Lee.
Date: April 8, 1955
Duration: 1 minute 10 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Estep Hearing]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about the trial of William and Dora Estep.
Date: April 8, 1955
Duration: 1 minute 10 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
captions transcript

[News Clip: Voting machines]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about voting machines used in the recent Grand Prairie election being opened due to complaints from an unsuccessful mayoral candidate.
Date: April 13, 1955
Duration: 47 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
captions transcript

[News Clip: Patrolman honored]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about W. H. Hilliard receiving an award for valor for a gun battle he took part in.
Date: April 15, 1955
Duration: 48 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: News briefs - woman]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about 20-year-old expectant mother Berry Ruth Rogers, who was sentenced to a year in prison for possession of a single amphetamine tablet, having bail posted by a local real estate man and seeking a new trial.
Date: May 20, 1955
Duration: 1 minute 13 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
captions transcript

[News Clip: News briefs - Houston]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about Billy Joe Houston of Dallas, seeking legal aid for his defense for his trial for raping, robbing, and assaulting a North Dallas woman.
Date: February 17, 1955
Duration: 47 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Rape trial]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about the trial of a Dallas hospital orderly, Simon Simpson, accused of sexually assaulting a teenaged patient.
Date: February 24, 1955
Duration: 55 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: New Irving school vote set April 16]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about the establishment of a new school district and board in Irving after the previous district was abolished in a local election.
Date: April 1, 1955
Duration: 1 minute 47 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Pope freed on bond in knifing case]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about a Dallas man, Harry Raymond Pope, being freed on bond after knifing another man in a street fight over a woman. Also covered, a story about an ex-convict from Florida being found sick and injured on the side of a road near Mountain Lake south of Grand Prairie.
Date: May 25, 1955
Duration: 2 minutes 46 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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