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[News Script: Southland Hole in the Ground]
Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the construction of the Southland Center. In three years, a Southland Life building and Sheraton hotel are planned to be completed there.
Date:
December 5, 1956
Creator:
WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
System:
The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Mexicans]
Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the arrival of Mexican Governor Salvador Sanchez Colin at Love Field. He will take part in the 1956 Pan American Livestock Exposition.
Date:
October 5, 1956
Creator:
WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
System:
The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Dam site]
Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a new dam being built northwest of Meacham Field in Fort Worth. The dam is a Water Board flood control project.
Date:
July 5, 1956
Creator:
WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
System:
The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Barn]
Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a hen house that was destroyed during a freak gust of wind. No other buildings in Tarrant or Dallas counties were damaged.
Date:
July 5, 1956
Creator:
WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
System:
The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Englishman]
Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the American Friends Service Committee. They sponsor the appearance of George Thomas, British Parliament member, on the TCU campus.
Date:
November 5, 1956
Creator:
WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
System:
The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Teams Arrive for Big Football Day]
Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the arrival of the Arkansas Razorbacks in Fort Worth for a game against the TCU Horned Frogs. The Texas Tech Red Raiders also arrive in Dallas for a game against the Texas A&M Aggies.
Date:
October 5, 1956
Creator:
WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
System:
The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Grand Jury Sworn in After Delay]
Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the swearing in of a new Tarrant county grand jury. The jury found itself one person short of twelve jurors, the required number, but another juror was quickly found. One woman on the jury, Mrs. Vada P. Felder, is the first negro woman ever to serve as a juror in Tarrant county.
Date:
October 5, 1956
Creator:
WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
System:
The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Live Gifts Offered by Ft. Worth Store]
Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a jewelry store in Fort Worth with a display of poodles and chihuahuas.
Date:
December 5, 1956
Creator:
WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
System:
The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Shooting]
Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about Jim Ellis and the shooting of his wife Rose. He was showing her a pistol he had purchased when it accidentally discharged.
Date:
October 5, 1956
Creator:
WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
System:
The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Suspect Admits Two Assaults at Dallas]
Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about Leon Peacock, who admits to stabbing and raping women in Dallas. He is also being investigated for murders in Texarkana.
Date:
November 5, 1956
Creator:
WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
System:
The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Shooting]
Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a triple shooting in Fort Worth. James Wilson Raley is dead, and two others are injured.
Date:
December 5, 1956
Creator:
WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
System:
The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Rabies]
Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a rabies crackdown in Dallas after a three-year-old boy became inflicted with the disease after being bitten by dog. Around forty thousand dogs face extermination, and another thirty thousand face a one-hundred day quarantine.
Date:
July 5, 1956
Creator:
WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
System:
The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Mischievous Goat Jailed for Misdeeds]
Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a goat causing havoc at the Worth Tool and Die Company. Officer Dennis O'Neal takes care of the problem.
Date:
December 5, 1956
Creator:
WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
System:
The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Dr. Theodore Adams]
Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about Dr. Theodore Adams, president of the Baptist World Alliance, arriving in Dallas. He will speak at the State Baptist Student Union convention.
Date:
October 5, 1956
Creator:
WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
System:
The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Two Are Injured in Bus-Car Collision]
Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about an accident between a car and a city bus. Sam B. Yadon and J. W. Brown were injured in the collision.
Date:
December 5, 1956
Creator:
WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
System:
The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Evans]
Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about Clarence Wesley "Sonny" Evans, a nineteen-year-old son of a Edell Evans, an ex-convict. He is being released from jail, where he was being held on charges of rape and pandering.
Date:
July 5, 1956
Creator:
WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
System:
The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Woman Admits Theft of Costume Jewelry]
Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the arrest of Mary Gomez. Dallas police recover nearly eight-hundred pieces of costume jewelry from her home.
Date:
December 5, 1956
Creator:
WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
System:
The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Long missing girl, father reunited]
Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a 16-year-old Fort Worth girl being reunited with her father after she ran away to San Angelo because she did not want to attend school.
Date:
June 5, 1956
Creator:
WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
System:
The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: News Briefs - Truck]
Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about Leonard Redmon, a truck driver, hauling a near impossible load from Longview, Texas to Noodle, Texas, before the National System of Interstate and Defense Highways was created.
Date:
March 5, 1956
Creator:
WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
System:
The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Burglars]
Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about three men arrested in Fort Worth while trying to crack a safe at a grocery store.
Date:
March 5, 1956
Creator:
WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
System:
The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Judge says pinball ordinance invalid]
Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a judge in Fort Worth declaring the city's new ordinance outlawing pinball machines unconstitutional.
Date:
March 5, 1956
Creator:
WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
System:
The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Awards Presented at Frog Banquet]
Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about an awards dinner on the TCU campus for members of the football squad. Nearly a dozen honors are presented.
Date:
February 5, 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 Dallas County cracking down on stray dogs due to the increased number of rabies cases.
Date:
June 5, 1956
Creator:
WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
System:
The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Plainview Buried Under Record Snow]
Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the city of Plainview, which is covered in twenty-nine inches of snow, keeping residents trapped at home. A winter storm hit much of the state, killing at least twenty people.
Date:
February 5, 1956
Creator:
WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
System:
The UNT Digital Library