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[News Script: Bomb lift] (open access)

[News Script: Bomb lift]

Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a new hydraulic bomb lift for the U.S. Air Force developed by a Dallas oilfield equipment manufacturer.
Date: June 4, 1953
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Confederate vet plaque unveiled] (open access)

[News Script: Confederate vet plaque unveiled]

Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a monument to Confederate, WWI and WWII soldiers, being dedicated on the grounds of the Tarrant County Courthouse.
Date: June 4, 1953
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Fireworks blast rocks Houston] (open access)

[News Script: Fireworks blast rocks Houston]

Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about an explosion at a fireworks warehouse in Houston, killing at least four people and destroying several surrounding buildings.
Date: June 4, 1953
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Girl gets pup from Roy Rogers] (open access)

[News Script: Girl gets pup from Roy Rogers]

Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a young Fort Worth polio victim, Pamela Tuttle, receiving a gift of a puppy from film actor Roy Rogers. Also shipped to Texas is a California sea lion, a gift to the Forrest Park Zoo in Fort Worth.
Date: June 4, 1953
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: New tax chief] (open access)

[News Script: New tax chief]

Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a new U.S. Commissioner of Internal Revenue, T. Coleman Andrews, visiting Dallas.
Date: June 4, 1953
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Assault trial is postponed two weeks] (open access)

[News Script: Assault trial is postponed two weeks]

Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about jury selection in the trial of Raymond Seymour Dickens, a Dallas man accused of raping a housewife in Oak Cliff while impersonating an electric company employee.
Date: June 4, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Charm school for car hops is held] (open access)

[News Script: Charm school for car hops is held]

Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about carhops from the Dairy Mart company attending charm school.
Date: June 4, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Golfer] (open access)

[News Script: Golfer]

Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a Fort Worth welder playing 11 rounds of golf in one day to set a new world record.
Date: June 4, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: New trial denied convicted slayer] (open access)

[News Script: New trial denied convicted slayer]

Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about convicted murderer Charles John Butler seeking a new trial in Dallas Criminal District Court. His request is denied.
Date: June 4, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Pat Boone to open hotel engagement] (open access)

[News Script: Pat Boone to open hotel engagement]

Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about singer Pat Boone arriving in Dallas for a show at the Baker Hotel.
Date: June 4, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Thomson winner in Dallas tournament] (open access)

[News Script: Thomson winner in Dallas tournament]

Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the Texas International Golf Tournament at the Preston Hollow Country Club in Dallas. Australian golfer Peter Thomson wins the tournament.
Date: June 4, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Bride flies to injured husband] (open access)

[News Script: Bride flies to injured husband]

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a Korean woman stopping over in Dallas on the way to Arkansas to visit her injured husband, a U.S. Army Serviceman near death after a car accident.
Date: June 4, 1957
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Daniel boosts water program] (open access)

[News Script: Daniel boosts water program]

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about an address delivered in Mineral Wells by Texas Governor Price Daniel at a convention of the Texas Chamber of Commerce Managers Association.
Date: June 4, 1957
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Disabled vet admits stickup] (open access)

[News Script: Disabled vet admits stickup]

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a disabled young veteran confessing to robbing a man while hitchhiking in his car.
Date: June 4, 1957
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Ex con admits tavern slaying] (open access)

[News Script: Ex con admits tavern slaying]

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a Dallas man turning himself over to police and confessing to the shooting murder of a local tavern owner.
Date: June 4, 1957
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Floating boys] (open access)

[News Script: Floating boys]

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about two teenage boys attempting to navigate the Trinity River in inner tubes before being rescued from the rushing water by police and emergency workers.
Date: June 4, 1957
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Instructor guilty] (open access)

[News Script: Instructor guilty]

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a U.S. Air Force court martial convicting a San Antonio drill instructor of physically abusing his recruits, one of whom later died.
Date: June 4, 1957
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Pony] (open access)

[News Script: Pony]

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a Fort Worth man who won a pony on a television game show.
Date: June 4, 1957
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Rescue] (open access)

[News Script: Rescue]

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a police detective and his four grandchildren rescued by a fisherman from the overflowing Sycamore Creek in Fort Worth, after they were swept away while wading.
Date: June 4, 1957
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Typhoid] (open access)

[News Script: Typhoid]

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about free vaccines administered after a typhoid fever case appeared in Fort Worth. The infant with the illness recovered.
Date: June 4, 1957
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Accidental death] (open access)

[News Script: Accidental death]

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about Frank E. Byrd, an employee who was crushed to death by a two-thousand pound ladle at the Texas Steel Company.
Date: June 4, 1958
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Car Race Publicity] (open access)

[News Script: Car Race Publicity]

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the Texas Championship Sports Car races who are accompanied by Miss Sports Car Beauty contestants.
Date: June 4, 1958
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Drowning search] (open access)

[News Script: Drowning search]

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about search operations for two men from Fort Worth that are believed to have drown while on a a fishing trip. Robert Smith, Jr. and Amos C. Meador's boat and car trailer were found parked at the edge of the lake.
Date: June 4, 1958
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Parade] (open access)

[News Script: Parade]

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a vanguard of motorcycles leading the parade opening Pioneer Days on Fort Worth's North Side.
Date: June 4, 1958
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
System: The UNT Digital Library