[News Script: 58 seconds] (open access)

[News Script: 58 seconds]

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about tomorrows state championship where the yellow jackets will play against the coyotes.
Date: December 15, 1961
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: 49th division] (open access)

[News Script: 49th division]

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the Texas 49th armored division who says their goodbyes as they leave to Fort Polk, Louisiana.
Date: December 31, 1961
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: A&P Hijacking] (open access)

[News Script: A&P Hijacking]

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about an armed robbery at the Arlington Heights A&P Grocery Store just before 9pm; a masked and armed man later identified as Charles Ernest Eaves carjacked the wife of an employee who had arrived to pick up her husband forcing her inside the building and taking money from the cashier cage, fleeing just as police arrived. Shots were fired, two more officers joined the chase, and the by then wounded thief was tracked by a police dog from the sheriff's department and captured.
Date: December 19, 1961
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Accident] (open access)

[News Script: Accident]

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the deaths of two people in a car accidents from the past 24 hours.
Date: December 23, 1961
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Actor] (open access)

[News Script: Actor]

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about an actor Ralph Bellamy, a guest who came to the Casa Del Sol Club.
Date: December 23, 1961
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Asphyxiation] (open access)

[News Script: Asphyxiation]

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the two people who were found in a home and taken to the hospital due to asphyxiation.
Date: December 14, 1961
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Atwell funeral] (open access)

[News Script: Atwell funeral]

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a funeral that was held for federal judge William Hawley Atwell.
Date: December 24, 1961
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: B-58 crash] (open access)

[News Script: B-58 crash]

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about three men who died in a plane crash in Paris France.
Date: December 31, 1961
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Balloon] (open access)

[News Script: Balloon]

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about 2 balloon flights in the area: 1) the end of a weather balloon's flight from Goodfellow Air Force Base in San Angelo to Dallas, which was exploded by radio control, and the instrument package recovered for analysis; 2) a display at the Casa Linda Shopping Center, where balloonist Don Piccard, how is promoting the movie Mysterious Island, on which he advised - unfortunately the gusty winds are too strong to fly his balloon for day.
Date: December 18, 1961
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Benson & Church) (open access)

[News Script: Benson & Church)

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the quarterly conference of the Dallas/Fort Worth area members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints;about half of the 3,000 area Mormons met in a new, undedicated structure, with former Secretary of Agriculture Ezra Taft Benson attending as "One of the Quorum of 12 Apostles", one of the top members of the Mormon hierarchy.
Date: December 10, 1961
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Big Herman] (open access)

[News Script: Big Herman]

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about Herman Kahn arriving at Love Field to speak in Dallas at the opening sessions of the three-day Symposium on Civil Defense and Emergency Planning.
Date: December 6, 1961
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Blakley-tower] (open access)

[News Script: Blakley-tower]

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about William Blakley, who lost to Tower in a runoff.
Date: December 31, 1961
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Body] (open access)

[News Script: Body]

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the finding of the body of William Ray Hardeman in front of a vacant house in Balch Springs at 7:15am by Herbert Lyles; Police gather information that Hardeman, Walter Spoon, Richard and Bobby Warren had been celebrating the sale of Spoon's service station, and after time at a cafe went to Warren's home with Hardeman leaving about 3am to walk home. Beyond a small cut on the forehead, no injuries are found, and police suspect he froze to death in the frost - an autopsy has been ordered.
Date: December 12, 1961
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Bonds issued] (open access)

[News Script: Bonds issued]

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a delivery worth five-million dollars that are sold for construction of a new County Courthouse.
Date: December 27, 1961
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Bowler award] (open access)

[News Script: Bowler award]

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the 10th annual "Fort Worth Bowler of the Year" award dinner.
Date: December 9, 1961
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Braille] (open access)

[News Script: Braille]

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about Paul W. Antle at the First Unitarian Church in Dallas, teaching women how to translate textbooks and other publications into braille, for use by Dallas County school children.
Date: December 14, 1961
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Bridge burning] (open access)

[News Script: Bridge burning]

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about three girls who were killed as their car crashed in to a bridge that got burned.
Date: December 31, 1961
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Brother Bill] (open access)

[News Script: Brother Bill]

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about "Brother Bill" William Leo Harrod, who runs the Palacios Street Mission, and the gift of shoes and socks he gives to needy children each year on his birthday; The tradition is inspired by his own past, an his attempts to make up for neglecting his neglect of his family 18 years previously. Thousands of shoes and socks will be given away to help children.
Date: December 12, 1961
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Burglar] (open access)

[News Script: Burglar]

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about William Emerson, who captured two men at his auto supply store, which has been robbed several times in the last two months; the burglars turn out to be his son, Bobby Joe Emerson, who admitted to the thefts of oil and gas for the Black Hawk gang, and James Sidney Smith, who claimed not to know a robbery was happening. Although taken to the police station, Mr. Emerson chose not to press charges.
Date: December 9, 1961
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Burglars] (open access)

[News Script: Burglars]

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about burglars who stole nearly three thousand dollars from a church.
Date: December 18, 1961
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Burglary ring] (open access)

[News Script: Burglary ring]

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the arrest of four members of a group who stole a quantity of items from a Salvation Army warehouse in Dallas; 6 more members are sought for theft of the donations of food, clothing and household goods which were to have been distributed to victims of Hurricane Carla. Those arrested are: James Otis Russell, Pat Lou Wolfinburger, Flo Marie Lazo, and Ray Edward Morton, who is on the FBI wanted list; much of the loot was found at a home in Sansom Park, other items retrieved from pawn shops, grocery store owners, and individuals who had bought the items..
Date: December 10, 1961
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Cabell] (open access)

[News Script: Cabell]

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a clarification statement that is being held by republican, Bruce Alger.
Date: December 23, 1961
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Camel driver] (open access)

[News Script: Camel driver]

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas relating a news story about Vice President Johnson meeting with Pakistan camel-driver Bashir Ahmad.
Date: December 31, 1961
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Cancer society] (open access)

[News Script: Cancer society]

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a meeting of the Texas Division of the American Caner Society at the Texas Hotel in Fort Worth, with one og main guest speakers being Dr. Thomas Carlile.
Date: December 7, 1961
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
System: The UNT Digital Library