Resource Type

[News Script: All-Star baseball game] (open access)

[News Script: All-Star baseball game]

Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the sixteenth annual Texas League All Star Game. The Dallas Eagles compete with other teams.
Date: July 20, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Driverless truck slams into house] (open access)

[News Script: Driverless truck slams into house]

Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a delivery truck that smashed into the house of E. M. Brewster in Oak Cliff. The emergency brake on the truck failed, causing it to reverse into the home.
Date: July 20, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Crib] (open access)

[News Script: Crib]

Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the crib of King Louis-the-fifteenth's illegitimate son, which was found in a Paris junk shop. It is being cleaned in Dallas for a display at Everts Jewelers.
Date: July 20, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Fort Worth joins civil defense test] (open access)

[News Script: Fort Worth joins civil defense test]

Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about Fort Worth's addition to a massive civil defense drill named "Operation Alert." The scenario for the drill involves a hydrogen bomb attack on Carswell Air Force Base, requiring the evacuation of Fort Worth residents.
Date: July 20, 1956, 10:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Pruitt denied new trial] (open access)

[News Script: Pruitt denied new trial]

Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about eighteen-year-old Bennie Pruitt asking to be spared of his five-year prison sentence. He was found to have taken part in a robbery and beating of two men, which resulted in their death. Judge McGee says that the original verdict must stand.
Date: July 20, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Power talk] (open access)

[News Script: Power talk]

Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about Claude R. Wickard.
Date: July 20, 1951
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Plane accidents] (open access)

[News Script: Plane accidents]

Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a freight plane losing an engine before take-off and crashing through a fence and bouncing across Lemmon Avenue and into a drainage ditch, with little damage.
Date: July 20, 1951
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Swim meet] (open access)

[News Script: Swim meet]

Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a swim meet for young children at Sycamore Park Pool in Fort Worth.
Date: July 20, 1951
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 two news stories. The first story is about six Fort Worth carpenters leaving the city for a yearlong work contract in Alaska. The second story is about a session of summer classes at Southern Methodist University for World War II veterans attending college under the G.I. bill.
Date: July 20, 1951
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Club calves] (open access)

[News Script: Club calves]

Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the Dallas Kiwanis Club donating calves to the 4-H Club boys.
Date: July 20, 1951
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Lone Star Steel] (open access)

[News Script: Lone Star Steel]

Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the Lone Star Steel Company beginning its second year of steel production.
Date: July 20, 1954
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Rubber highway to receive test] (open access)

[News Script: Rubber highway to receive test]

Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about tests on a stretch of road in Dallas County of a new variety of wear-resistant highway construction material, a rubberized form of asphalt.
Date: July 20, 1954
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Worker rescued after cavein] (open access)

[News Script: Worker rescued after cavein]

Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a worker being rescued from a ditch that caved in.
Date: July 20, 1954
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Arms smuggling trial is started] (open access)

[News Script: Arms smuggling trial is started]

Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the beginning of an arms smuggling trial in Dallas, Texas.
Date: July 20, 1954
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: News briefs 1 (football)] (open access)

[News Script: News briefs 1 (football)]

Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a group of Washington Redskins football players stopping at Fort Worth's Amon Carter field.
Date: July 20, 1954
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Nergo on trial in assault case] (open access)

[News Script: Nergo on trial in assault case]

Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about Floyd Jackson going on trial for allegedly raping two women.
Date: July 20, 1954
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Driver killed in truck accident] (open access)

[News Script: Driver killed in truck accident]

Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a Fort Worth truck driver killed in an accident after his truck fell 30 feet from an embankment and he fell to his death.
Date: July 20, 1955
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Airplane crash landing] (open access)

[News Script: Airplane crash landing]

Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about two Air Force pilots, Richard D. Hayes and Richard W. Barber involved in a plan crash of a T-33 jet trainer, in Plano, Texas.
Date: July 20, 1955
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Nelson back with French golf trophy] (open access)

[News Script: Nelson back with French golf trophy]

Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about golfer Byron Nelson returning to Fort Worth after winning first place at the French Open golf tournament.
Date: July 20, 1955
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Polio shots] (open access)

[News Script: Polio shots]

Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the second round of shipments for the Salk polio vaccine to be administered to Dallas County schoolchildren.
Date: July 20, 1955
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Jorgenson winner in 3rd round kayo] (open access)

[News Script: Jorgenson winner in 3rd round kayo]

Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about several boxing matches in Fort Worth, including a fight between Texan fighters Paul Jorgenson and Johnny Villaneuva.
Date: July 20, 1955
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Horse and driver hurt: melons safe] (open access)

[News Script: Horse and driver hurt: melons safe]

Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about an accident in which a horse-drawn watermelon wagon driven by Henry Tinsley crashed into a telephone pole, injuring the horse and driver.
Date: July 20, 1955
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Nelms trial] (open access)

[News Script: Nelms trial]

Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the trial of Bennie B. Nelms in a felony driving-while-intoxicated incident that left a motorcycle officer an invalid.
Date: July 20, 1955
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Jimmy Stewart] (open access)

[News Script: Jimmy Stewart]

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about actor Jimmy Stewart visiting Dallas.
Date: July 20, 1957
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
System: The UNT Digital Library