[News Script: Texas news review] (open access)

[News Script: Texas news review]

Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering major Texas news stories from the past week.
Date: October 14, 1951
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Script
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Clip: Colbert Honored] captions transcript

[News Clip: Colbert Honored]

Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the State Fair of Texas holding its annual banquet, in which the Texan of Distinction award was given to L. L. "Tex" Colbert.
Date: October 14, 1953
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Video
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Clip: News Brief - Suggs] captions transcript

[News Clip: News Brief - Suggs]

Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about Sherill Douglas Suggs receiving a guilty verdict and an eight-year prison sentence for holding up Raven's Pharmacy in Oak Cliff.
Date: October 14, 1953
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Video
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Colbert honored] (open access)

[News Script: Colbert honored]

Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the State Fair of Texas holding its annual banquet, in which the Texan of Distinction award was given to L. L. "Tex" Colbert.
Date: October 14, 1953
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Script
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: News brief - parking protest] (open access)

[News Script: News brief - parking protest]

Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about merchants along Elm street in downtown Dallas, marching with a casket to protest the city council's action in banning parking on three downtown streets.
Date: October 14, 1953
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Script
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: News brief - Suggs] (open access)

[News Script: News brief - Suggs]

Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about Sherill Douglas Suggs receiving a guilty verdict and an eight-year prison sentence for holding up Raven's Pharmacy in Oak Cliff.
Date: October 14, 1953
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Script
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Clip: New move denied in Sunday sales] captions transcript

[News Clip: New move denied in Sunday sales]

Video footage from the WBAP-TV television station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story about auto dealers contesting Texas' blue laws by selling on Sundays. They demand that all businesses be closed on Sunday, out of fairness.
Date: October 14, 1954
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Video
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Chinese cagers and Hopi Indian runner] (open access)

[News Script: Chinese cagers and Hopi Indian runner]

Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the arrival of a Chinese basketball team at Love Field in Dallas, en route to a game in Houston. The script goes on to describe a stop at Fort Worth's Carter Field by elderly Hopi Indian marathon running champion Louis Tewania, on his way home to Arizona after attending a dinner for Olympians in New York.
Date: October 14, 1954
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Script
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: New move denied in Sunday sales] (open access)

[News Script: New move denied in Sunday sales]

Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about auto dealers contesting Texas' blue laws by selling on Sundays. They demand that all businesses be closed on Sunday, out of fairness.
Date: October 14, 1954
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Script
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Carrollton Chronicle (Carrollton, Tex.), Vol. 51, No. 47, Ed. 1 Friday, October 14, 1955 (open access)

The Carrollton Chronicle (Carrollton, Tex.), Vol. 51, No. 47, Ed. 1 Friday, October 14, 1955

Weekly newspaper from Carrollton, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: October 14, 1955
Creator: Sindik, Nicholas J.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Dallas Craftsman (Dallas, Tex.), Vol. 42, No. 20, Ed. 1 Friday, October 14, 1955 (open access)

The Dallas Craftsman (Dallas, Tex.), Vol. 42, No. 20, Ed. 1 Friday, October 14, 1955

Weekly newspaper from Dallas, Texas that includes news and information concerning the labor movement along with advertising.
Date: October 14, 1955
Creator: Reilly, Wallace
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Jungle Gym at Parkdale Park]

Photograph of a small, steel Jungle Gym at Parkdale Park near the fenced off swimming pool.
Date: October 14, 1955
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History
[News Clip: Negro sues Decker, others] captions transcript

[News Clip: Negro sues Decker, others]

Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about an African-American man, Jackson Davis, suing Dallas county sheriff Bill Decker, two of his deputies, and a Dallas County cotton broker for allegedly stealing money from him and wrongfully imprisoning him.
Date: October 14, 1955
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Video
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Clip: News briefs -- polio victim] captions transcript

[News Clip: News briefs -- polio victim]

Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about the Dallas Kiwanis Club and members of the Park City Baptist Church congregation building a new home for a young polio victim and her daughter.
Date: October 14, 1955
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Video
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Clip: Stars] captions transcript

[News Clip: Stars]

Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about movie star Ray Milland and ice dancer Patti Greenup touring in Dallas. Milland to support his new film "A Man Alone" and Greenup to support Dorothy Franey's Ice Show at the Adolphus Hotel.
Date: October 14, 1955
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Video
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Negro sues Decker, others] (open access)

[News Script: Negro sues Decker, others]

Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about an African-American man, Jackson Davis, suing Dallas county sheriff Bill Decker, two of his deputies, and a Dallas County cotton broker for allegedly stealing money from him and wrongfully imprisoning him.
Date: October 14, 1955
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Script
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: News briefs -- polio victim] (open access)

[News Script: News briefs -- polio victim]

Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the Dallas Kiwanis Club and members of the Park City Baptist Church congregation building a new home for a young polio victim and her daughter.
Date: October 14, 1955
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Script
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Stars] (open access)

[News Script: Stars]

Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about movie star Ray Milland and ice dancer Patti Greenup touring in Dallas. Milland to support his new film "A Man Alone" and Greenup to support Dorothy Franey's Ice Show at the Adolphus Hotel.
Date: October 14, 1955
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Script
System: The UNT Digital Library

[Two Girls Playing on Tree at Parkdale Park]

Photograph of two girls, one standing and one sitting on a leaning tree, at Parkdale Park.
Date: October 14, 1955
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History
[News Clip: Drowning] captions transcript

[News Clip: Drowning]

Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the death of Emmett C. Wylie. He drowned in a stock tank near Dallas.
Date: October 14, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Video
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Clip: Fire] captions transcript

[News Clip: Fire]

Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the old Whorton home in Dallas burning to the ground. Children considered the house haunted.
Date: October 14, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Video
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Clip: Miss Flame] captions transcript

[News Clip: Miss Flame]

Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the Miss Flame contest at the state fair grounds. Girls from the fifteen cities and fire departments in Dallas county compete.
Date: October 14, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Video
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Clip: Tenn State] captions transcript

[News Clip: Tenn State]

Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about Tennessee State's African American football team arriving in Fort Worth. They will play against Prairie View in the Cotton Bowl on Negro Achievement Day.
Date: October 14, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Video
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Drowning] (open access)

[News Script: Drowning]

Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the death of Emmett C. Wylie. He drowned in a stock tank near Dallas.
Date: October 14, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Script
System: The UNT Digital Library