[News Clip: Tree-Watering Device, Student Pilot Dies When Plane Crashes, News Briefs -- Patty, Pumpers Won't Drink Dallas Tap Water, Sonny Evans, Democrats, Gorilla] captions transcript

[News Clip: Tree-Watering Device, Student Pilot Dies When Plane Crashes, News Briefs -- Patty, Pumpers Won't Drink Dallas Tap Water, Sonny Evans, Democrats, Gorilla]

Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story about a homemade tree-saving device, created by Fort Worth police detective T. M. Wood; Captain Charles Walker, a student pilot from Perrin Air Force Base, who crashed his T-33 jet training plane and died; the brief appearance of singer Patty Page in Dallas, Texas, en route to marry movie director Charles O'Curran; the salty drinking water in Dallas, which comes from the Red River; the arrest of teenager Sonny Evans, who was found in a car near the scene of a tavern where somebody had torn off the back screen, supposedly in a burglary effort; disagreements between conservative democrats and liberal democrats in Fort Worth; and the arrival of a 16-pound baby girl gorilla, from New York, at Forest Park Zoo in Fort Worth, Texas.
Date: September 7, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Video
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Medders Trial] (open access)

[News Script: Medders Trial]

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas relating a news story about a trial involving a couple, Ernest and Margaret Medders, who were accused of illegally selling mortgaged cattle.
Date: June 29, 1967
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Script
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Tornado watch] (open access)

[News Script: Tornado watch]

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story.
Date: December 14, 1971, 12:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Script
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Dallas Bus-Napping] (open access)

[News Script: Dallas Bus-Napping]

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about Dallas bus getting hijacked. The bus driver had a longer route than usual days, a gun hijacked the carrier and ordered Eddie Holland- bus driver to make the long drive. The bus driver somehow escapes from the bus taking the keys with him. The search is still ongoing.
Date: July 4, 1973, 10:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Script
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Hijacked bus] (open access)

[News Script: Hijacked bus]

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about Dallas city bus driver Eddie Holland who told Cooke county officers that a gunman hijacked his empty bus in Dallas.
Date: July 24, 1973, 6:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Script
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Fatal] (open access)

[News Script: Fatal]

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story of two people who were killed and ten others who were injured in a two-car collision.
Date: December 24, 1973, 6:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Script
System: The UNT Digital Library