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[News Clip: Frogs Confident, Mustangs Hopeful ; Bobby Boyd] captions transcript

[News Clip: Frogs Confident, Mustangs Hopeful ; Bobby Boyd]

Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany two news stories. The first is about the TCU football team's beginning practice with a strong team, and their upcoming season. Second is a story about all-state halfback Bobby Boyd's decision to enroll at and join the University of Oklahoma's football team instead of SMU.
Date: September 2, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Video
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Bobby Boyd] (open access)

[News Script: Bobby Boyd]

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about all-state halfback Bobby Boyd's decision to enroll at and join the University of Oklahoma's football team instead of SMU.
Date: September 2, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Script
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: El Grotto] (open access)

[News Script: El Grotto]

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the Fort Worth parade of El Grotto, a social club of Master Masons, as part of the Masonic Order's Southwest convention at Hotel Texas.
Date: September 2, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Script
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Fashion Awards] (open access)

[News Script: Fashion Awards]

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the Neiman Marcus Awards' European recipients.
Date: September 2, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Script
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Frogs Confident, Mustangs Hopeful] (open access)

[News Script: Frogs Confident, Mustangs Hopeful]

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the TCU football team's beginning practice with a strong team, and their upcoming season.
Date: September 2, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Script
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Jimmy Stewart] (open access)

[News Script: Jimmy Stewart]

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the events surrounding Jimmy Stewart's being made an honorary Texan.
Date: September 2, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Script
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Mansfield] (open access)

[News Script: Mansfield]

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about U.S. Supreme Court Justice Minton granting Mansfield high school the opportunity to delay a court order requiring the school to admit African American students.
Date: September 2, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Script
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: New Racial Strife in Fort Worth] (open access)

[News Script: New Racial Strife in Fort Worth]

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about protests and demonstrations against an African American family who recently moved onto an all-white street in a racially mixed neighborhood.
Date: September 2, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Script
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: News Briefs - Gooks] (open access)

[News Script: News Briefs - Gooks]

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a group of international visitors stopping in Fort Worth as part of their tour of America and several other countries to look at their electric power industries.
Date: September 2, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Script
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: News Briefs - Rylie School] (open access)

[News Script: News Briefs - Rylie School]

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the proposed abolishing of the Rylie Independent school district and the vote which defeated the proposal.
Date: September 2, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Script
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Shooting] (open access)

[News Script: Shooting]

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the search for the murderer of Herman Mitchell, who was discovered shot dead near a bullet-riddled pickup truck in Traildrivers Park in Fort Worth, Texas.
Date: September 2, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Script
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: SMU Football] (open access)

[News Script: SMU Football]

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the SMU football team and which of the previous year's starters returned.
Date: September 2, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Script
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Williamson] (open access)

[News Script: Williamson]

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the arrest of Marvin Williamson after his attempted robbery of a liquor store in Fort Worth.
Date: September 2, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Script
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Chance Vought Jet Sets Speed Record] (open access)

[News Script: Chance Vought Jet Sets Speed Record]

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the National Air Show in Oklahoma City at which an airplane built by Chance-Vought Aircraft that set the official national speed record was featured, and Broadway star Jayne Mansfield made an appearance.
Date: September 3, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Script
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Forced Landing] (open access)

[News Script: Forced Landing]

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a plane crash involving pilot William Robert Plumlee, who was injured when his plane crashed while attempting to land.
Date: September 3, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Script
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Muscles] (open access)

[News Script: Muscles]

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the Labor Day Muscle and Beauty Contest in Fort Worth, Texas, sponsored by Forth Worth and Dallas Health Clubs - male entrants are judged on physique and female contestants are judged on beauty of face and figure.
Date: September 3, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Script
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Negro Agrees to Sell Judkins House] (open access)

[News Script: Negro Agrees to Sell Judkins House]

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about African American man Lloyd G. Austin moving into the all-white block of Judkins street in Fort Worth, Texas. After a day of demonstration and a night of violence protesting, Austin agreed to sell the Judkins home and move into an all-black area; however, when given the sales papers, Austin declined to sign them.
Date: September 3, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Script
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Night Club Wrecked by Terrible Blast] (open access)

[News Script: Night Club Wrecked by Terrible Blast]

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a mysterious explosion that leveled a night club in Fort Worth, Texas, and damaged businesses and homes in the surrounding area.
Date: September 3, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Script
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Burnett] (open access)

[News Script: Burnett]

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about Smiling Smiley Burnett, a former movie cowboy who came out of retirement to work at the Cleburne rodeo.
Date: September 4, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Script
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Dallas Passes New Dog Control Law] (open access)

[News Script: Dallas Passes New Dog Control Law]

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a new dog control law in Dallas that requires all dogs to be restrained by fences or leashes.
Date: September 4, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Script
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Dallas University] (open access)

[News Script: Dallas University]

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the acceptance of freshman students at Dallas University in Irving, Texas, for its first term, beginning 24 September 1956 - the university will start with two dormitories, lecture hall, science building, chapel, and cafeteria.
Date: September 4, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Script
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Diamond] (open access)

[News Script: Diamond]

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the diamonds in the Allied Gift and Jewelry Show in Dallas including a $75,000 necklace, rings, and broaches worn by Lynn Edison.
Date: September 4, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Script
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Mansfield School Opens] (open access)

[News Script: Mansfield School Opens]

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the failure of a court order in forcing Mansfield high school to admit African American students, and the demonstrations at the school by both those supporting and those opposing the court order.
Date: September 4, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Script
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: News Briefs - Gas Leak] (open access)

[News Script: News Briefs - Gas Leak]

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a police barricade in Fort Worth, Texas, to prevent a possible gas explosion - Lone Star Gas company workmen accidentally broke a gas main, sending fumes into the neighborhood.
Date: September 4, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Script
System: The UNT Digital Library