[News Script: Boneheads make street navigable] (open access)

[News Script: Boneheads make street navigable]

Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the Dallas Boneheads, a local club of pranksters, attempting to flood the city's main street in order to render it navigable by boat.
Date: April 29, 1955
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Gook] (open access)

[News Script: Gook]

Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about Thai Prime Minister P. Pibulsonggram visiting Kilgore in East Texas as part of a tour of the United States.
Date: April 29, 1955
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Hagler is jailed again; hearing due] (open access)

[News Script: Hagler is jailed again; hearing due]

Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the surrender of accused murderer David F. Hagler, Jr., in Fort Worth. Hagler is suspected of burning a man to death inside a car in an insurance scheme.
Date: April 29, 1955
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Trojans] (open access)

[News Script: Trojans]

Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about athletes from the University of Southern California arriving in Fort Worth to compete in a collegiate track and field meet in Dallas.
Date: April 29, 1955
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Vet loans stalled, Rudder declares] (open access)

[News Script: Vet loans stalled, Rudder declares]

Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about an address by Texas Land Commissioner J. Earl Rudder at a convention of property owners in Fort Worth. Commissioner Rudder discusses the state veteran's land grant program.
Date: April 29, 1955
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Zoo's kind vulture has blessed event] (open access)

[News Script: Zoo's kind vulture has blessed event]

Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a newborn King Vulture chick at Fort Worth's Forest Park Zoo, possibly the first of its kind hatched in captivity.
Date: April 29, 1955
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Brannan lashes out at GOP farm policies] (open access)

[News Script: Brannan lashes out at GOP farm policies]

Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about former Secretary of Agriculture, Charles Brennan, discussing the Republican administration's farm policies at the annual meeting of the Texas Democratic Women's Club.
Date: April 28, 1955
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 fire breaking out in a locked storage room at the Parish Chevrolet company in East Dallas.
Date: April 28, 1955
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Gook] (open access)

[News Script: Gook]

Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about Field Marshal P. Pibunsongkhram, the Prime Minister of Thailand, visiting the United States to meet with leaders of the oil industry.
Date: April 28, 1955
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Motorcycle drill team] (open access)

[News Script: Motorcycle drill team]

Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the Fort Worth's American Legion Police Post 239 Motorcycle Precision Drill team obtaining a new mascot, 8-year-old Claude Salicas.
Date: April 28, 1955
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Negro boy drowns in Dallas pond] (open access)

[News Script: Negro boy drowns in Dallas pond]

Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a thirteen-year-old boy drowning in a small lake east of Fair Park in Dallas.
Date: April 28, 1955
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Pangolin moves to summer quarters] (open access)

[News Script: Pangolin moves to summer quarters]

Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the pangolin residing in Fort Worth's James R. Record Aquarium being moved from his winter enclosure to the open air of the Forest Park Zoo.
Date: April 28, 1955
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: South rises again on campus at SMU] (open access)

[News Script: South rises again on campus at SMU]

Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the Kappa Alpha fraternity at SMU holding "Old South Week" wherein Dallas, University Park, and SMU informally secedes from the Union.
Date: April 28, 1955
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: City council] (open access)

[News Script: City council]

Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about Fort Worth's newly-elected city council convening to act on appointive offices in the city government.
Date: April 27, 1955
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Few in area get questioned vaccine] (open access)

[News Script: Few in area get questioned vaccine]

Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a federal order to halt the distribution of polio vaccines made by Cutter Laboratories in California, after several people fall ill with polio after receiving the inoculation. Officials say vaccines made by the company have been distributed in unknown numbers in the Dallas and Fort Worth areas, but no cases of polio from the vaccine have appeared.
Date: April 27, 1955
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Medics] (open access)

[News Script: Medics]

Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a convention of the Texas Medical Association in Fort Worth, with an award for medical practitioner of the year awarded to Dr. Robert Wilkins Holton of Terrell.
Date: April 27, 1955
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Workmen removing huge electric sign] (open access)

[News Script: Workmen removing huge electric sign]

Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about men working 13 stories above street level in downtown Fort Worth to remove an eight story high sign on the Texas Electric Service Company building.
Date: April 27, 1955
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Zoning] (open access)

[News Script: Zoning]

Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about Thomas M. Burgess, going against the Lakewood residential zoning to sell shrubs from his property.
Date: April 27, 1955
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Cinerama] (open access)

[News Script: Cinerama]

Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about celebrities arriving in Dallas to promote a new production in the Cinerama series, a method of wide-format film projection.
Date: April 26, 1955
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Cleburne receives Santa Fe engine] (open access)

[News Script: Cleburne receives Santa Fe engine]

Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the Santa Fe railroad company presenting an antique steam locomotive to the town of Cleburne, to be placed as a monument in one of the city's parks.
Date: April 26, 1955
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Jess Barker flies to Susan] (open access)

[News Script: Jess Barker flies to Susan]

Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about actor Jess Barker departing Dallas on a flight to Los Angeles to see his sons and estranged wife, actress Susan Hayward, who recently attempted suicide.
Date: April 26, 1955
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Negro given life on murder charge] (open access)

[News Script: Negro given life on murder charge]

Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about James Edward Williams receiving a sentence of life in prison for the murder of his foreman, Adolf Albert Pfoff in Fort Worth.
Date: April 26, 1955
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Silversmith] (open access)

[News Script: Silversmith]

Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about Allan Adler, master silversmith, demonstrating his workshop procedures at Neiman-Marcus in Dallas.
Date: April 26, 1955
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Smoking linked to cancer by doctor] (open access)

[News Script: Smoking linked to cancer by doctor]

Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the 88th annual convention of the Texas Medical Association which voted to allow membership to negro doctors, and Dr. Alton Ochsner of New Orleans announced his belief that smoking causes lung cancer.
Date: April 26, 1955
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
System: The UNT Digital Library