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[News Script: Art]
Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a decision made by the Dallas Museum of Art to display paintings by Yasuo Kuniyoshi, as well as other art that may be considered to have communist themes. This decision is protested by Colonel Alvin M. Owsley and the Dallas County Patriotic Council.
Date:
January 31, 1956
Creator:
WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
System:
The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: B-58]
Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about news cameramen and other onlookers gathering at the Convair plant in Fort Worth. They hope to see the first flight of the B-58 bomber.
Date:
October 31, 1956
Creator:
WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
System:
The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Baseball]
Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a dinner honoring two Texas League baseball players who set and broke the home run record.
Date:
August 31, 1956
Creator:
WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
System:
The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Bus accident]
Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a Dallas city bus spinning out of control on wet streets during a rainstorm and striking the wall of an underpass. Three of the eight passengers aboard suffered minor injuries, along with the driver.
Date:
May 31, 1956
Creator:
WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
System:
The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Cassidy trial]
Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the trial of former Fort Worth policeman Tex Cassidy, accused of theft after writing several fraudulent checks. Cassidy is declared innocent by the jury.
Date:
May 31, 1956
Creator:
WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
System:
The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: City Council]
Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a Dallas City Council meeting, where the sale of six-and-a-half-million dollars worth of bonds is approved. The bonds are for improvement to Love Field, including the addition of a new terminal. The Fort Worth City Council meets to discuss issues on the city's water supply. The council approves of a plan which would create two reservoirs near Corsicana.
Date:
October 31, 1956
Creator:
WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
System:
The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: City Hall Porter Admits Robberies]
Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about Lavarn "Lightning" Lighner, who admits to robbing six service stations in the past month. In the day, he worked at police headquarters. He was arrested by Saginaw police officers Ben Moorman and Mike Howard.
Date:
January 31, 1956
Creator:
WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
System:
The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Curtis Injury Minor]
Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about Chuck Curtis, the Quarterback for the TCU Horned Frogs. He suffered a minor kidney injury, but is expected to play in the upcoming game against Baylor.
Date:
October 31, 1956
Creator:
WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
System:
The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Dogs]
Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a quarantine for dogs in Fort Worth. The quarantine is a result of an increase in rabies cases.
Date:
July 31, 1956
Creator:
WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
System:
The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Ex Wrestling Champ is Seeking Damages]
Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about Ed "Strangler" Lewis, the former World's Heavyweight Wrestling Champion, going to trial against the Hilton Hotel. He seeks one-hundred-thousand dollars in damages he incurred from falling into an open service pit.
Date:
January 31, 1956
Creator:
WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
System:
The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Explosion and fire wreck pastor's home]
Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about an explosion and fire destroying a parsonage at the Oak View Baptist Church in Fort Worth, caused by a flammable chemical spray county employees were using inside the house to exterminate insects. No one was injured in the blast, but the residence was completely destroyed.
Date:
May 31, 1956
Creator:
WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
System:
The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Fire]
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.)
System:
The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Football]
Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a football review for the Southwest Conference. Teams included are: SMU, Notre Dame, TCU, Arkansa, Oklahoma, UT, A&M, Rice, and Baylor.
Date:
December 31, 1956
Creator:
WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
System:
The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Fort Worth pools to be opened Saturday]
Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the Fort Worth recreation board turning down a request by the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People to racially integrate pool facilities in the city.
Date:
May 31, 1956
Creator:
WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
System:
The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Ghosts and Goblins Parade in Ft. Worth]
Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about downtown Fort Worth being roped off so that children can trick-or-treat. Police officers watch over the children.
Date:
October 31, 1956
Creator:
WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
System:
The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Golf tournament opening is postponed]
Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the opening of the Texas International golf tournament being delayed due to rain and lightning.
Date:
May 31, 1956
Creator:
WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
System:
The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Hoskins Held in Kansas Bank Holdup]
Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about Joe Herbert Hoskins, who will be tried in Kansas for a bank robbery. He was arrested by FBI agents in Dallas last night.
Date:
January 31, 1956
Creator:
WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
System:
The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Ice]
Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a contest by Reemaire conditioning. The contest entails people guessing when a forty-ton block of ice will melt.
Date:
July 31, 1956
Creator:
WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
System:
The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Mansfield Continues to Defy Court Order]
Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about Mansfield high school's resistance toward a court order for integration, and the community's prevention of any African American students attempting to register.
Date:
August 31, 1956
Creator:
WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
System:
The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Moccasins]
Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about moccasins, which are made in Fort Worth and sold in Arizona. Nat Rakoover owns the Texas Sandal and Moccasin Company, which makes the shoes.
Date:
July 31, 1956
Creator:
WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
System:
The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Murder Trial]
Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the murder trial of Joe Ed Tissier. He is accused of the mistake killing of a Cleburne auto dealer, Charley Reynolds.
Date:
October 31, 1956
Creator:
WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
System:
The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Old employee]
Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about ninety-three-year-old George W. Parker, Fort Worth's Federal District Court Clerk. He ends his sixty-one year career with the final official act of logging in a district court suit. Parker is retiring due to a new federal law, which sets the retirement age at seventy.
Date:
October 31, 1956
Creator:
WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
System:
The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Parade]
Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a carnival to be held at the Fair Park Foods Building in Dallas, Texas, as a fund raising project for the National Polio Foundation.
Date:
August 31, 1956
Creator:
WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
System:
The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Robberies]
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.)
System:
The UNT Digital Library