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[News Script: Football] (open access)

[News Script: Football]

Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a football review for the Southwest Conference. Teams included are: SMU, Notre Dame, TCU, Arkansa, Oklahoma, UT, A&M, Rice, and Baylor.
Date: December 31, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Holiday tragedies] (open access)

[News Script: Holiday tragedies]

Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a Roy V. Davis falling to his death while taking a picture on a large Santa Clause statue that he erected, and a blind sheriff from Denton county being struck and killed with his guide dog, by a newspaper delivery truck.
Date: December 31, 1953
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Tornado] (open access)

[News Script: Tornado]

Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a review of the highest voted news story of the year, which was a tornado that hit Waco the preceding May.
Date: December 31, 1953
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Drouth] (open access)

[News Script: Drouth]

Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the devastating drought faced by the southern states in 1953. President Eisenhower visited Amarillo to discuss the problem.
Date: December 31, 1953
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Ben Hogan] (open access)

[News Script: Ben Hogan]

Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the return home to Fort Worth of champion golfer Ben Hogan following his victory at the British Open.
Date: December 31, 1953
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Floyd Hill - jail break] (open access)

[News Script: Floyd Hill - jail break]

Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about two jailbreaks at the Tarrant County Jail, with all escapees thwarted or eventually captured or killed by police
Date: December 31, 1953
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Brown torch murder] (open access)

[News Script: Brown torch murder]

Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about Donald Hawkins Brown going on trial in Dallas for the torch murder of an insurance adjuster.
Date: December 31, 1953
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Piano legs] (open access)

[News Script: Piano legs]

Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a bank robbery in Handley by a young woman carrying a baby. The woman was quickly apprehended.
Date: December 31, 1953
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Eisenhower inauguration] (open access)

[News Script: Eisenhower inauguration]

Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about Texans traveling to Washington, D.C., to attend the inauguration of President Dwight D. Eisenhower, who was born in Denison.
Date: December 31, 1953
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Nude prowler] (open access)

[News Script: Nude prowler]

Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about an apparent rash of nude African American prowlers in Dallas.
Date: December 31, 1953
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: 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: 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: 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: 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