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[News Script: Train]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about Jack Walker, a grader operator in Haltom City, who was killed at a railroad crossing. The grader may have been too loud for Walker to hear the train whistle.
Date: July 23, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Script
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.)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Script
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Robbery]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a robbery at a liquor store in Dallas. An African American man robbed sixty-six-year-old P. M. Gendler of one-hundred dollar.
Date: July 10, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Script
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Prank]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a prank played by the fifteen-year-old son of Mrs. Willis Murphy. A dummy U.S.A.F. detonator was planted for police to find.
Date: July 26, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Script
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Woman is jailed in slaying of gambler]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about Betty Barry accidentally killing "Chicken" Louie Ferrantello, an ex-gambler, in Dallas. Barry says that she wanted to shoot herself, but Ferrantello tried to take the gun away from her. She fired at him during the struggle.
Date: July 18, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Script
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Plane crashes at Grand Prairie]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a single-engine plane that crashed into telephone wires while attempting to land at the Grand Prairie Airport. The pilot is Royce Brown, and he is detained by police for questioning.
Date: July 6, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Script
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: One Man Dead in Highway Accident]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about an investigation into the death of Henry T. Novak. They want to determine if he's death was caused by the accident or suffered an injury prior to the crash.
Date: December 21, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Script
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.)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Script
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Forgers]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about four gang members sentences for the role they played in a forgery spree.
Date: December 20, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Script
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Boy killed by train]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about four-year-old Dwight Bernard Thomas who was hit by a train in a Dallas train yard. Accidental death was determined to be the cause.
Date: July 30, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Script
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Fire]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a fire that destroyed the Deuback Skating Rink in Dallas. The owner, John L. Deuback, his wife, and his son were burned escaping the fire.
Date: July 31, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Script
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.)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Script
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: McPherson Blames Bank for Troubles]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about Roman H. McPherson seeking to reduce the bond he posted on indictment charges involved in the failure of River Oaks State Bank.
Date: December 14, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Script
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: The Week in Review]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering the December 15-22 weekly review. The six stories include a the establishment of a new athletic conference, a church burglary, rape-murder investigations ending with a confession, a hot-check investigation involving a bank and attorney, commissioners raising their pay, and a court battle resulting in Dallas schools staying segregated.
Date: December 22, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Script
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.)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Script
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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