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[News Script: Pox]
Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about Cato Hightower, Fort Worth's new Chief of Police.
Date:
May 5, 1953
Creator:
WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
System:
The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Peace pilgrim]
Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a visit to Dallas by a woman walking across America to promote world peace.
Date:
May 5, 1953
Creator:
WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
System:
The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Photographers select queen]
Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about Splash Day in Galveston where close to 100,000 people came out for the opening of Galveston beach and the National Press Photographers Queen Contest.
Date:
May 5, 1953
Creator:
WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
System:
The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Review]
Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering major Texas news stories from the past week.
Date:
August 5, 1951
Creator:
WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
System:
The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Babe paints as she recuperates]
Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the life of female athlete Mildred "Babe" Didrikson Zaharias as she recovers from a cancer surgery.
Date:
June 5, 1953
Creator:
WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
System:
The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Annual coaching school starts]
Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the annual coaching school in Houston. The coaching school gave high school coaches an opportunity to learn from college coaches.
Date:
August 5, 1953
Creator:
WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
System:
The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Hoffman]
Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about former Marshall Plan Administrator Paul HOffman visiting Stanley Marcus at SMU.
Date:
May 5, 1953
Creator:
WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
System:
The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Bell officials test helicopter]
Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about Bell Aircraft Company testing the Navy's experimental XHSL helicopter that would eventually become the HSL-1 helicopter.
Date:
November 5, 1953
Creator:
WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
System:
The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Million dollar blaze sweeps compress]
Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a fire at a cotton compressing plant in Fort Worth, destroying thousands of bales of cotton. No one was injured in the blaze.
Date:
August 5, 1953
Creator:
WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
System:
The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: News briefs (traffic accidents]
Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about Lenora V. Holland wrecking her car in downtown Dallas.
Date:
June 5, 1953
Creator:
WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
System:
The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Parsons]
Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about Hollywood columnist and broadcaster Louella O. Parsons visiting Dallas.
Date:
November 5, 1953
Creator:
WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
System:
The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: News brief - wreck]
Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a stolen car crashing into a bridge in Dallas.
Date:
November 5, 1953
Creator:
WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
System:
The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Movie stars]
Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the Bell Sisters, Roscoe Ates, and Rhonda Fleming all passing through Dallas en route to Hollywood from Houston.
Date:
November 5, 1953
Creator:
WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
System:
The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Wheat harvest in North Texas begins]
Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the beginning of the wheat harvest in North Texas, with Dallas County farmers reporting an excellent crop.
Date:
June 5, 1953
Creator:
WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
System:
The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Varied events on holiday program]
Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about Independence Day celebrations across the region, with picnics, fireworks displays, beauty contests, and speeches against communism.
Date:
July 5, 1953
Creator:
WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
System:
The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Explosion]
Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about an accidental dynamite explosion destroying a factory in Dallas. One employee was killed while fleeing the blast.
Date:
May 5, 1953
Creator:
WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
System:
The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Baby chicks die in Dallas fire]
Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a modern poultry plant in Dallas, going up in flames, killing more than 13,000 week-old baby chicks.
Date:
November 5, 1953
Creator:
WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
System:
The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Poly girls win archery title]
Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a high school girl's archery tournament at Farrington Field in Fort Worth.
Date:
May 5, 1953
Creator:
WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
System:
The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Civil defense]
Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about members of the Air Raid Warning Committee testing the Civil Defense equipment in Fort Worth.
Date:
November 5, 1953
Creator:
WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
System:
The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Atom car]
Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the display in Dallas of a car subjected to three nuclear bomb tests, as part of a nuclear safety demonstration.
Date:
June 5, 1953
Creator:
WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
System:
The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Sharpshooter shows sheriffs]
Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about an FBI sharpshooter, Leo L. Robertson, demonstrating his skills to members of the Texas Sheriff's Association during the organization's convention in Fort Worth.
Date:
August 5, 1953
Creator:
WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
System:
The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Marines]
Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a visit to the Dallas Marine Reserve Armory by Colonel Walter R. Litz to turn the first spade of dirt at a groundbreaking ceremony for a new gunnery range at the installation.
Date:
February 5, 1954
Creator:
WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
System:
The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Zoo begins duck collection]
Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the Fort Worth Zoo beginning a collection of wild ducks.
Date:
March 5, 1954
Creator:
WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
System:
The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Republic bank fire]
Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a fire at the unfinished Republic National Bank building under construction in downtown Dallas. The fire is believed to have started via sparks from a welding torch.
Date:
January 5, 1954
Creator:
WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
System:
The UNT Digital Library