[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.)
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.)
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.)
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.)
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.)
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.)
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.)
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.)
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.)
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.)
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Fire] (open access)

[News Script: Fire]

Script 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.)
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Miss Flame] (open access)

[News Script: Miss Flame]

Script 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.)
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Oklahoma Batters Longhorns 45 to 0] (open access)

[News Script: Oklahoma Batters Longhorns 45 to 0]

Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a football game between the University of Oklahoma and the University of Texas. Oklahoma wins the game.
Date: October 14, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Tenn State] (open access)

[News Script: Tenn State]

Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about Tennessee State's negro football team arriving in Fort Worth. On Negro Achievement Day, they will play against Prairie View.
Date: October 14, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Apartment house fire] (open access)

[News Script: Apartment house fire]

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about Mrs. Philip Reele woke to her dog "Butch" barking to warn of a fire who then led her to the front porch where she looked up and saw the upper floor of the house in flames.
Date: October 14, 1958
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: George Gobel] (open access)

[News Script: George Gobel]

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about George Gobel, the kid from NBC who has been very busy the past year of his career.
Date: October 14, 1958
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Man sentenced] (open access)

[News Script: Man sentenced]

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about Lee Joseph Roe pleading guilty to kidnapping and robbery by assault in Dallas.
Date: October 14, 1958
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Mantle] (open access)

[News Script: Mantle]

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about Mickey Mantle of the New York Yankees coming home to Dallas.
Date: October 14, 1958
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Shooting] (open access)

[News Script: Shooting]

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a teenage boy shooting a fisherman in Dallas.
Date: October 14, 1958
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Embezzler] (open access)

[News Script: Embezzler]

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about James Cook Evans, the assistant vice president of the First National Bank of Dallas, being accused of embezzling $3,000.
Date: October 14, 1959
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Hats] (open access)

[News Script: Hats]

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the annual Woman's Hat Day contest at the State Fair of Texas.
Date: October 14, 1959
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Mrs. America] (open access)

[News Script: Mrs. America]

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about Mrs. America of 1960 who appears at the "Texas style" kitchen at State Fair in Dallas.
Date: October 14, 1959
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Awards] (open access)

[News Script: Awards]

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the Dallas Press Club and Southern Methodist University's annual Southwest Journalism Forum in Dallas.
Date: October 14, 1960
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Beer] (open access)

[News Script: Beer]

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a petition to put a motion on a ballot to allow liquor sales in Oak Cliff.
Date: October 14, 1960
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
System: The UNT Digital Library