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[News Clip: Spivak] captions transcript

[News Clip: Spivak]

Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about Lawrence Spivak arriving in Dallas en route to Fort Worth where he will participate in a panel interviewing Governor Allan Shivers.
Date: March 23, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Video
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Clip: Sexton] captions transcript

[News Clip: Sexton]

Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the coming trial of eighteen-year-old Frank Sexton Jr.. Sexton is accused of beating and raping a woman with three other youths. The state is expected to ask for the death penalty.
Date: July 23, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Video
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Clip: Sexton given 42 year prison term] captions transcript

[News Clip: Sexton given 42 year prison term]

Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about Frank Sexton Junior being sentenced for forty-two years in prison. He is found guilty of raping a young woman from Rylie.
Date: October 23, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Video
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Clip: Dogs] captions transcript

[News Clip: Dogs]

Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a meeting of Dallas county commissioners on how to get rid of the county's rabid dogs. J. M. Pickard presents a potential solution, but not everyone agrees with his ideas. A decision will be made at a later date.
Date: July 23, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Video
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Clip: Big sisters] captions transcript

[News Clip: Big sisters]

Video footage from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a benefit coffee being held in honor of Mrs. Lillie Wylie, and the beginning of a scholarship fund for needy girls through the Dallas Big Sisters organization.
Date: September 23, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Video
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Clip: Ground breaking] captions transcript

[News Clip: Ground breaking]

Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the groundbreaking for a new sanctuary at Lovers Lane Methodist Church in Dallas. The sanctuary is the third step in a four-phase building program, which was initiated by the church in 1945.
Date: July 23, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Video
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Clip: NAACP to fight restraining order] captions transcript

[News Clip: NAACP to fight restraining order]

Video footage from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the NAACP's decision to fight a restraining order, which bars the organization from doing business in Texas.
Date: September 23, 1956, 10:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Video
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Clip: Lee slaying trial in hands of jury] captions transcript

[News Clip: Lee slaying trial in hands of jury]

Video footage from the WBAP-TV television station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story about the trial of Elsie May Lee ending and being handed over to the jury after Lee giving her testimony.
Date: May 23, 1956, 10:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Video
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Clip: Auction] captions transcript

[News Clip: Auction]

Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about an auction of unclaimed stolen goods from the police property room in Dallas.
Date: April 23, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Video
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Clip: Rally] captions transcript

[News Clip: Rally]

Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about the year's largest rally for the Dallas MG Car Club that involved a total of 48 cars participating.
Date: April 23, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Video
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Clip: Man killed] captions transcript

[News Clip: Man killed]

Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about a Dallas lumber company employee who was found crushed to death between his car and a stone wall.
Date: March 23, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Video
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Clip: Coin Machine Doles out Entire Meal] captions transcript

[News Clip: Coin Machine Doles out Entire Meal]

Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about a machine that dispenses meals for coins.
Date: March 23, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Video
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Clip: Lavin] captions transcript

[News Clip: Lavin]

Video footage from the WBAP-TV television station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story about Charles Lavin arriving in Fort Worth to help the Ambassador hotel restructure their management system to make housing more affordable for the elderly.
Date: February 23, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Video
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Clip: Hoxsey] captions transcript

[News Clip: Hoxsey]

Video footage from the WBAP-TV television station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story about the state board of medical examiners asking Stephenville Districtrict Judge Oxford to uphold the board's ruling, which would cancel the medical licenses of seven Dallas doctors. The doctors work for Harry Hoxsey, head of the controversial Hoxsey Cancer Clinic.
Date: February 23, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Video
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Clip: News Briefs--Bell] captions transcript

[News Clip: News Briefs--Bell]

Video footage from the WBAP-TV television station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story about Arthur Ted Bell, who goes to court in Dallas to hear a ruling on his motion for a new trial. He was convicted in the murder of Billy Bob Benton and sentenced to twenty years in prison.
Date: February 23, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Video
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Clip: Nelson Eddy Sings With New Partner] captions transcript

[News Clip: Nelson Eddy Sings With New Partner]

Video footage from the WBAP-TV television station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story about Nelson Eddy and his partner, Miss Gale Sherwood, preparing for a show in the Empire Room of the new Statler-Hilton hotel in Dallas.
Date: February 23, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Video
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Clip: Trial] captions transcript

[News Clip: Trial]

Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the trial of Orson James Johnson, who is charged with burglary of a service station.
Date: January 23, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Video
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Clip: Escaper Caught] captions transcript

[News Clip: Escaper Caught]

Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about Kenneth James Baskin, an ex-convict who walked undetected out of the Dallas Criminal District Courts building minutes after being handed a new prison term.
Date: January 23, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Video
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Clip: $60,000 in Jewels Missing from Vault] captions transcript

[News Clip: $60,000 in Jewels Missing from Vault]

Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about $60 thousand dollars worth of jewels, which went missing from the Statler-Hilton hotel in Dallas. 39 police officers work on the case.
Date: November 23, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Video
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Clip: Bible] captions transcript

[News Clip: Bible]

Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about Norman M. Yonan arriving in Dallas along with the Yonan Codex, the oldest known New Testament in existence at the time, which he donated to the Library of Congress.
Date: March 23, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Video
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Clip: Handy Gadgets Shown at Dallas Exhibit] captions transcript

[News Clip: Handy Gadgets Shown at Dallas Exhibit]

Video footage from the WBAP-TV television station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story about a variety of products being exhibited at the Exposition of Modern Living in Dallas.
Date: February 23, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Video
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Auction] (open access)

[News Script: Auction]

Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about an auction of unclaimed stolen goods from the police property room in Dallas.
Date: April 23, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Script
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Dallas Craftsman (Dallas, Tex.), Vol. 42, No. 43, Ed. 1 Friday, March 23, 1956 (open access)

The Dallas Craftsman (Dallas, Tex.), Vol. 42, No. 43, Ed. 1 Friday, March 23, 1956

Weekly newspaper from Dallas, Texas that includes news and information concerning the labor movement along with advertising.
Date: March 23, 1956
Creator: Reilly, Wallace
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Dallas Craftsman (Dallas, Tex.), Vol. 43, No. 26, Ed. 1 Friday, November 23, 1956 (open access)

The Dallas Craftsman (Dallas, Tex.), Vol. 43, No. 26, Ed. 1 Friday, November 23, 1956

Weekly newspaper from Dallas, Texas that includes news and information concerning the labor movement along with advertising.
Date: November 23, 1956
Creator: Reilly, Wallace
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History