[News Script: Light Airplane is Carried by Copter] (open access)

[News Script: Light Airplane is Carried by Copter]

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about an experimental flight where a helicopter ferries an Army reconnaissance plane from San Marcos, Texas, to Lawton, Oklahoma.
Date: August 15, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Script
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Bobby Boyd] (open access)

[News Script: Bobby Boyd]

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about all-state halfback Bobby Boyd's decision to enroll at and join the University of Oklahoma's football team instead of SMU.
Date: September 2, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Script
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Plane Crash] (open access)

[News Script: Plane Crash]

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a plane crash near Waco resulting in the injury of two Air Force pilots.
Date: September 4, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Script
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: El Grotto] (open access)

[News Script: El Grotto]

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the Fort Worth parade of El Grotto, a social club of Master Masons, as part of the Masonic Order's Southwest convention at Hotel Texas.
Date: September 2, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Script
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Chance Vought Jet Sets Speed Record] (open access)

[News Script: Chance Vought Jet Sets Speed Record]

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the National Air Show in Oklahoma City at which an airplane built by Chance-Vought Aircraft that set the official national speed record was featured, and Broadway star Jayne Mansfield made an appearance.
Date: September 3, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Script
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Clip: Chance Vought Jet Sets Speed Record] captions transcript

[News Clip: Chance Vought Jet Sets Speed Record]

Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story about the National Air Show in Oklahoma City at which an airplane built by Chance-Vought Aircraft that set the official national speed record was featured, and Broadway star Jayne Mansfield made an appearance.
Date: September 3, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Video
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Evaporation] (open access)

[News Script: Evaporation]

Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about research being done on the effects of hexadecanol on evaporation at Kiddie Lake in Oklahoma City. North Texas State College students work with the U.S. Department of the Interior on the study.
Date: July 5, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Script
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Syracuse] (open access)

[News Script: Syracuse]

Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the practices of Syracuse University in Oklahoma.
Date: December 17, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Script
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: News Briefs -- Korean Orphan] (open access)

[News Script: News Briefs -- Korean Orphan]

Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the adoption of a Korean orphan to a family in Oklahoma.
Date: December 18, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Script
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Syracuse] (open access)

[News Script: Syracuse]

Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the arrival of Syracuse's football team in Oklahoma to prepare for the Cotton Bowl game against TCU.
Date: December 16, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Script
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Butler to Retina Texas League Post] (open access)

[News Script: Butler to Retina Texas League Post]

Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about Dick Butler, Texas League president, and his decision to turn down an offer to become general manager of the Kentucky State Fair.
Date: January 30, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Script
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Students from Asia Tell of Problems] (open access)

[News Script: Students from Asia Tell of Problems]

Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about Charles Tso-Lei Yen, of Taipei, Formosa, and Praphorn Charuchandr, of Bankok, Thailand, studying in Oklahoma in hopes of bettering living conditions in their home countries.
Date: February 19, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Script
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Snakes] (open access)

[News Script: Snakes]

Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the 17th annual Rattlesnake Roundup in Oklahoma.
Date: April 16, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Script
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Air defense] (open access)

[News Script: Air defense]

Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about Brigadier General speaking about thermonuclear bombs and the threat presented by Russia's own technology.
Date: May 18, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Script
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Train Carries 400 to Graham Revival] (open access)

[News Script: Train Carries 400 to Graham Revival]

Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about 400 Fort Worth Baptists boarding a Sante Fe train to Oklahoma City to hear Billy Graham, a famed evangelist. The train only carried the baptists with a totaly of eight coaches and a baggage car.
Date: June 19, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Script
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Hagler trial] (open access)

[News Script: Hagler trial]

Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the trial of David Fred Hagler, who was accused of murder, coming to a close with the jury finding him not guilty.
Date: April 20, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Script
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Jury selected for Hagler murder case] (open access)

[News Script: Jury selected for Hagler murder case]

Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about jury selection in Sulphur, Oklahoma, for the trial of David Fred Hagler, a Fort Worth man accused of murdering another man in an attempt to fake his own death in an insurance fraud scheme.
Date: April 16, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Script
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Water Story] (open access)

[News Script: Water Story]

Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the DFW area collaborating with Oklahoma to create more water supply to the cities.
Date: June 27, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Script
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Man held in theft of 2,000 half dollars] (open access)

[News Script: Man held in theft of 2,000 half dollars]

Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about an Arlington man being arrested on federal theft charges after allegedly stealing a bag of 2,000 half-dollar coins from a Railway Express office in Oklahoma.
Date: June 8, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Script
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Hagler case goes to jury tonight] (open access)

[News Script: Hagler case goes to jury tonight]

Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the conclusion of arguments in the Sulphur, Oklahoma, murder trial of David Fred Hagler, a Fort Worth man accused of killing another man in an insurance scheme.
Date: April 19, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Script
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 three news stories. The first story is about Fort Worth tax evader Newton Samuel Locke having his prison sentence suspended. The second story is about Roger Wolf Kahn, chief test pilot for Grumann Aircraft, landing in Dallas. The third story is about improvements to an enclosure at the Lincoln Park Zoo in Oklahoma City a year after a leopard housed there managed to escape.
Date: February 23, 1951
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Script
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Braniff honored] (open access)

[News Script: Braniff honored]

Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about an award presented to Tom E. Braniff, president of Braniff International Airways, at the National Conference of Christians and Jews in Oklahoma City.
Date: February 23, 1951
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Script
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Texas news review] (open access)

[News Script: Texas news review]

Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering major Texas news stories from the past week.
Date: May 6, 1951
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Script
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Jim Thomas slain] (open access)

[News Script: Jim Thomas slain]

Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the death of the gambler and ex-convict Jim Thomas after he was shot by Hubert Deere.
Date: August 23, 1951
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Script
System: The UNT Digital Library