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[News Script: Carter]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a football game between Carter-Riverside High School and a school in Amarillo. Fans board a train to visit the away game.
Date: October 5, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Romulo]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about General Carlos Romulo, president of the Philippine Republic, and his visit to Dallas. He stops in Texas en route from Oklahoma City to Phoenix.
Date: October 26, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Nurses]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a training institute at Parkland Hospital in Dallas. Lieutenant Robert McGrath and several student nurses from across Dallas conduct the demonstrations.
Date: October 2, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Morrow]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about Abilene Christian College graduates congratulating Bobby Morrow, a member of the 1956 Olympic Team. Byron Nelson speaks at the banquet, and J. Woodie Holden presents Morrow with a plaque from the Fort Worth chapter of ACC graduates.
Date: October 6, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: News Briefs; Accident]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about an accident that injured two gas workers. L. D. Green and Adam Moore were working in a hole when Lee M. McDowell hit them with his car.
Date: October 2, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Robberies]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about Benjamin Henry Pruitt, a student at Polytechnic High School, admitting to three armed robberies. Pruitt was free on bond, after his five-year prison sentence for murder was overturned.
Date: October 31, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Trailer fire]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a trailer fire in Dallas. Elbert Williams Crocker was killed.
Date: October 24, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Burglary]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a burglary at Mission Bottling Company in Fort Worth. Three-thousand dollars was stolen.
Date: October 21, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: News Briefs; Poll Taxes]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about Tarrant county residents paying their poll tax. Robert L. Brooks and Mrs. Harold Davis are among the first to pay their taxes.
Date: October 1, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Two precincts vote against prohibition]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about failed efforts to pass prohibition in two Tarrant county precincts.
Date: October 3, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Narcotics Offenders Given Prison Terms]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the continued prosecution of narcotics cases. Johnny James Jackson is given eight years in prison.
Date: October 16, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Negroes, etc.]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about protests in the Morningside section of Fort Worth. Whites worry about the encroachment of African Americans into their neighborhoods. Signs which read "This property is not for sale to Negroes" are placed in front of buildings.
Date: October 7, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Extortion Plot]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about Lloyd C. Crum, who is taken to arraignment on charges of attempting to extort money from a Weatherford feed supply dealer.
Date: October 27, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Boy Goes to Trial in Death of Mother]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about an eighteen-year-old youth, Charles Everett Cole, and his trial for killing his mother. Cole states that he shot at his step-father in self-defense, but he accidentally shot his mother.
Date: October 22, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: British Designer Sees Bomber]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about Sir William Pharren, who visits the Convair plant in Fort Worth. He observes the company's newest jet bomber, the B-58.
Date: October 18, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: The Week in Review]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the various news segments covered this week. Stories include the death of Frank Cates, a fire in Gainesville, Richard Nixon's visit to Fort Worth, a strike at the Haggar Slacks Company, and others.
Date: October 13, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: The Week in Review]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the events that week. Topics include the closing of River Oaks State Bank, a visit by a Missouri senator, and a Union decision by workers at TEMCO.
Date: October 20, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Rhode Island Woman is Honored at Fair]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about Mrs. Ada Holding Miller of Providence, Rhode Island. She receives the Woman of the Year award at the State Fair of Texas.
Date: October 17, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Movie performers campaign for Ike]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a group of actors called the Hollywood Flying Squadron for Eisenhower. Members include George Murphy, Irene Dunne, Jeanette McDonald, and others.
Date: October 15, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Drowning]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the death of Emmett C. Wylie. He drowned in a stock tank near Dallas.
Date: October 14, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Satchmo]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a concert by Louie Satchmo Armstrong. He performs on the state fair grounds for Negro Achievement Day.
Date: October 15, 1956
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 football game between Fort Worth's Paschal High School Panthers and the Cleburne Yellow Jackets. Cleburne wins the game.
Date: October 6, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: The Week in Review]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering the weekly news report about the NAACP, visiting senators, bank refund, a gas explosion killing two in Southmayd, Texas, court cases, a man murdered by a 14 year old, and two plane accidents.
Date: October 27, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Hess Recovering from Fall]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about Herbert G. Hess. He became paralyzed after falling from a water tower at the Murray Gin Company in Dallas.
Date: October 9, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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