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[News Script: Chemical company wrecked by fire] (open access)

[News Script: Chemical company wrecked by fire]

Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a three-alarm fire at a Dallas chemical company and neighboring paper warehouse. No one was injured in the blaze.
Date: July 12, 1953
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Shriners leave for convention] (open access)

[News Script: Shriners leave for convention]

Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about Fort Worth Shriners club members traveling by train to a national convention in New York City.
Date: July 12, 1953
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Elephant] (open access)

[News Script: Elephant]

Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a 34th birthday celebration for Queen Tut, an elephant at Fort Worth's Forest Park Zoo.
Date: August 12, 1953
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Airlines stewardesses] (open access)

[News Script: Airlines stewardesses]

Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the arrival of 50 new American Airlines stewardesses to Fort Worth's Amon Carter Field.
Date: July 12, 1953
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Wadill comes home] (open access)

[News Script: Wadill comes home]

Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the return home to Texas of Naval Hospital Corpsman Tommy Wadill, who spent a month as a prisoner of war in Korea.
Date: May 12, 1953
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Waco stages speedy recovery] (open access)

[News Script: Waco stages speedy recovery]

Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the speedy recovery of Waco's business district after it was destroyed by a tornado 90 days before.
Date: August 12, 1953
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Laredo citizens pray for rain] (open access)

[News Script: Laredo citizens pray for rain]

Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a water shortage in south Texas that caused the Rio Grande to run dry and drastic rationing to be put into effect in Laredo.
Date: June 12, 1953
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Unicycle rider] (open access)

[News Script: Unicycle rider]

Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about Pat Cummings, a bat boy for the Fort Worth Cats, that rides a unicycle.
Date: June 12, 1953
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Suspect admits hit-run incident] (open access)

[News Script: Suspect admits hit-run incident]

Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about Jesse C. Story returning to Fort Worth to face hit-and-run charges for the accident that resulted in the death of Mrs. Donald A. Lawrence.
Date: July 12, 1953
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Champions named in swimming meet] (open access)

[News Script: Champions named in swimming meet]

Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the annual TAAF swimming and diving competition in Fort Worth.
Date: July 12, 1953
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Wilson Reports on European Trip] (open access)

[News Script: Wilson Reports on European Trip]

Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a dinner honoring Congressman J. Frank Wilson, upon his return from a tour of Europe.
Date: November 12, 1953
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Willie Pep (boxing)] (open access)

[News Script: Willie Pep (boxing)]

Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about veteran boxer Willie Pep training in Fort Worth to fight Jacky Blair at Will Rogers Memorial Colesium.
Date: May 12, 1953
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Boat builder] (open access)

[News Script: Boat builder]

Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about Dallas man Henry Brunner purchasing a fire-damaged boat and single-handedly restoring it to its former glory.
Date: August 12, 1953
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Swindler] (open access)

[News Script: Swindler]

Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about police capturing Marice Weinzelbaum in Houston, because he was wanted in Chicago for swindling $500,000.
Date: June 12, 1953
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Polio patients make mass trip] (open access)

[News Script: Polio patients make mass trip]

Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about 11 polio patients making a journey by train from Louisville, Kentucky, to Houston while their hospital is remodeled. Extensive medical support is required aboard the train during the journey.
Date: November 12, 1953
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Texas Cotton Enroute to Korea] (open access)

[News Script: Texas Cotton Enroute to Korea]

Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about ten thousand bales of Texas cotton being shipped from Houston to Korea for post-war rehabilitation.
Date: August 12, 1953
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Grapevine lake holds boat races] (open access)

[News Script: Grapevine lake holds boat races]

Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a series of motorboat races held at Grapevine Lake. The script goes on to describe a water skiing show and beauty contest at Whitney Lake near Hillsboro.
Date: July 12, 1953
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Accident] (open access)

[News Script: Accident]

Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a car wreck in Oak Cliff that sends Ethel May Butts to the hospital.
Date: August 12, 1953
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Texas tornadoes hit two cities] (open access)

[News Script: Texas tornadoes hit two cities]

Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about severe damage and loss of life in Waco after the city was struck by a tornado.
Date: May 12, 1953
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: San Angelo blow] (open access)

[News Script: San Angelo blow]

Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a tornado striking the San Angelo suburb of Lakeview, killing more than eight people and destroying hundreds of buildings.
Date: May 12, 1953
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Buried alive - but escaped death] (open access)

[News Script: Buried alive - but escaped death]

Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about Vernon Harp being trapped inside a silo when an air pocket collapsed and buried Harp under the soft earth.
Date: June 12, 1953
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Zoo Dallas] (open access)

[News Script: Zoo Dallas]

Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about Marlin Perkins, director of Chicago's Lincoln Park Zoo, visiting the Marsalis Park Zoo in Dallas.
Date: November 12, 1953
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Cats open home baseball season] (open access)

[News Script: Cats open home baseball season]

Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the season-opening home game of the Fort Worth Cats baseball team against the Tulsa Oilers. Tulsa wins the game 6-3.
Date: April 12, 1953
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: 12 Indicted For Smuggling] (open access)

[News Script: 12 Indicted For Smuggling]

Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about 12 men being indicted for conspiring to smuggle firearms to Mexico.
Date: February 12, 1953
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
System: The UNT Digital Library