[News Script: Sunset smashes Forest 34 to 20] (open access)

[News Script: Sunset smashes Forest 34 to 20]

Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a high school football championship game in Dallas between the Forest High Lions and the Sunset High Bisons. The Bisons win the game, 34-20.
Date: October 31, 1954
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Jet plane into boat works] (open access)

[News Script: Jet plane into boat works]

Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, looking back at the top local news stories of the past year.
Date: December 31, 1954
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Insurance] (open access)

[News Script: Insurance]

Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, revisiting the year's major local news stories, including a scandal over lax enforcement of insurance law in the state, along with the escape and recapture of a python at Fort Worth's Forest Park Zoo.
Date: December 31, 1954
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Accident at bridge] (open access)

[News Script: Accident at bridge]

Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a major car crash involving the Dewey Killingsworth family and James Lloyd Allen, killing the unborn baby of Mrs. Killingsworth.
Date: October 31, 1954
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Gift hat travels by jet plane] (open access)

[News Script: Gift hat travels by jet plane]

Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about three veteran U.S. Navy pilots traveling to represent Dallas at the National Aircraft Show in Dayton, Ohio.
Date: August 31, 1954
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: CIO support for Yarborough denied] (open access)

[News Script: CIO support for Yarborough denied]

Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the CIO Communications Workers of America, a labor union, declining to endorse a candidate in the Democratic runoff for Texas governor between Governor Allan Shivers and Ralph Yarborough.
Date: August 31, 1954
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Gubernatorial race - flood waters] (open access)

[News Script: Gubernatorial race - flood waters]

Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering two news stories about Governor Allan Shivers winning re-election against Ralph Yarborough, and flooding Laredo and Neuvo Laredo.
Date: December 31, 1954
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Batchelor] (open access)

[News Script: Batchelor]

Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about Claude Batchelor returning to Texas from Korea and Thurman Priest slaying his niece.
Date: December 31, 1954
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Batchelor's plea denied by court] (open access)

[News Script: Batchelor's plea denied by court]

Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the court-martial of Corporal Claude Batchelor at Fort Sam Houston in San Antonio. Corporal Batchelor stands accused of providing information to the enemy while a prisoner of war in Korea, as well as refusing to return to the U.S. when given the opportunity by his captors.
Date: August 31, 1954
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Desegregation] (open access)

[News Script: Desegregation]

Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the effects of the Supreme Court decision banning segregation in public schools.
Date: December 31, 1954
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Baylor knocks Frogs from race] (open access)

[News Script: Baylor knocks Frogs from race]

Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about Baylor University beating TCU in a football game.
Date: October 31, 1954
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Review of 1954] (open access)

[News Script: Review of 1954]

List from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, listing stories included on the 1954 review reel. Items include Duval politics, Gubernatorial race, Rio Grande flood, Drought in Texas, Hagler case, Desegregation, Charges re insurance laws, Pete the Python, Claude Batchelor, Priest case, Viola Brown poisoned, Jones Bros. extortion plot, Houston ledge rescue, F-80 crashes into boat work, Color telecast, Off-the-bench tackle, Two lakes open to fishers, Polio vaccine administered.
Date: December 31, 1954
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Extortion plot] (open access)

[News Script: Extortion plot]

Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the FBI capturing James Hollis Jones, a Dallas man later convicted of extorting prominent Jewish families in the city with threatening letters demanding money. Jones was sentenced to 20 years in prison.
Date: December 31, 1954
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Betsy Rawls wins golf tournament] (open access)

[News Script: Betsy Rawls wins golf tournament]

Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the Texas Open women's golf tournament. Golfer Betsy Rawls wins the competition.
Date: October 31, 1954
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Hatters (mad)] (open access)

[News Script: Hatters (mad)]

Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about three of Europe's most famous hat designers showcasing their designs in Dallas.
Date: October 31, 1954
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Sightless woman seeks new eyes] (open access)

[News Script: Sightless woman seeks new eyes]

Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a sightless Fort Worth woman selling her home in order to afford a cornea transplant that could restore her vision.
Date: December 31, 1954
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Negro debutantes are presented] (open access)

[News Script: Negro debutantes are presented]

Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about seven 1954 debutantes being presented at the annual Ambassador's Club Ball in the North Side Coliseum.
Date: December 31, 1954
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Veteran Dallas official retires] (open access)

[News Script: Veteran Dallas official retires]

Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about Dallas court reporter Jack Tingle retiring after 20 years.
Date: December 31, 1954
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Boneheads usher in the new year] (open access)

[News Script: Boneheads usher in the new year]

Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the Dallas Bonehead Club ringing in the year 1947 on New Year's Eve 1954.
Date: December 31, 1954
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Announcement] (open access)

[News Script: Announcement]

Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about an announcement of highlights from 1954 that will run on Channel 5 the same evening.
Date: December 31, 1954
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Roof caves in] (open access)

[News Script: Roof caves in]

Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the roof of a Dallas shopping center caving in under its own weight during construction. Three construction workers were injured in the collapse, but none seriously.
Date: December 31, 1954
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Cotton Bowl] (open access)

[News Script: Cotton Bowl]

Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the building anticipation for the Cotton Bowl game in Dallas, Texas.
Date: December 31, 1954
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: News briefs] (open access)

[News Script: News briefs]

Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about commendations awarded by General Curtis LeMay to the nation's top military bombing crew, the Eleventh Bomb Wing from Carswell Air Force Base in Fort Worth, during the Air Force's annual service competition at Shreveport's Barksdale Field.
Date: August 31, 1954
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Ledge rescue] (open access)

[News Script: Ledge rescue]

Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a foiled suicide attempt by a Houston postal worker on the ledge of a Dallas hotel, along with a plane crash at a boat company in Grand Prairie that killed two workers.
Date: December 31, 1954
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
System: The UNT Digital Library