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[News Script: Dallas Vote Canvass] (open access)

[News Script: Dallas Vote Canvass]

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about members of a Dallas, Texas, canvassing committee checking 383 voting machines used in the runoff balloting of Senator Daniel and Judge Yarborough.
Date: August 28, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Dallas Vote] (open access)

[News Script: Dallas Vote]

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about controversy surrounding the Dallas county gubernatorial vote and Judge Sarah T. Hughes' hearings to attempt to settle the issue.
Date: August 29, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Grand Jury Probes Fort Worth voting] (open access)

[News Script: Grand Jury Probes Fort Worth voting]

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the continued canvassing of voting machines used in the runoff balloting for Ralph Yarborough and Senator Daniel. Grand Jury Foreman Buddy Thompson signs subpoenas for more than a dozen witnesses as the jury starts its probe of irregularities in box 120.
Date: August 29, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Mansfield Continues to Defy Court Order] (open access)

[News Script: Mansfield Continues to Defy Court Order]

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about Mansfield high school's resistance toward a court order for integration, and the community's prevention of any African American students attempting to register.
Date: August 31, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Explosion] (open access)

[News Script: Explosion]

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a gas explosion destroying a home in McKinney, Texas.
Date: August 30, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Parade] (open access)

[News Script: Parade]

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a carnival to be held at the Fair Park Foods Building in Dallas, Texas, as a fund raising project for the National Polio Foundation.
Date: August 31, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Tornado] (open access)

[News Script: Tornado]

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a tornado and severe weather in Cleburne, Midlothian, and Britton, and the damage that was sustained.
Date: August 31, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Constitution Party Names Candidates] (open access)

[News Script: Constitution Party Names Candidates]

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the Constitution Party's national convention, ending in the nomination of T. Coleman Andrews as its presidential candidate.
Date: August 28, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Mansfield is Quiet After Demonstration] (open access)

[News Script: Mansfield is Quiet After Demonstration]

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the admittance of African American students into schools in Mansfield and the angry demonstrations on school registration day by those opposed to the court order.
Date: August 30, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Weather] (open access)

[News Script: Weather]

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about severe storms and tornadoes in Fort Worth, Boyd, and Eagle Mountain Lake and the damage throughout those areas.
Date: August 30, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Grand Jury] (open access)

[News Script: Grand Jury]

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a grand jury investigation into controversial voting results in Lake Como, resulting in the arrest of the election judge, Mrs. Charlie Mae Allen.
Date: August 30, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Council] (open access)

[News Script: Council]

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about dissatisfaction with some phases of the Fort Worth, Texas, city budget of almost 22-and-a-half million dollars, the highest budget in Fort Worth history at that time.
Date: August 29, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Mansfield] (open access)

[News Script: Mansfield]

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a fight to integrate Mansfield Public High School in Mansfield, Texas. Federal Judge Joe Estes ordered the school to admit African American students, and many students are planning to enroll and attend Mansfield High School - rather than be bussed to schools in Fort Worth.
Date: August 28, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Dummy Hanging at Mansfield Probed] (open access)

[News Script: Dummy Hanging at Mansfield Probed]

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the hanging of a red paint splattered, straw-stuffed dummy in effigy of an African American man in Mansfield, Texas, in response to the federal desegregation order demanding Mansfield admit thirteen African American students to its high school.
Date: August 29, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Lodge] (open access)

[News Script: Lodge]

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about Henry Cabot Lodge, U.S. Ambassador to the U.N., and his address before the American Bar Association in Dallas.
Date: August 30, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Dallas Vote] (open access)

[News Script: Dallas Vote]

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the outcome of Dallas County's gubernatorial election, which Price Daniel won.
Date: August 30, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Dallas Weather] (open access)

[News Script: Dallas Weather]

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a severe storm in Dallas and the damage sustained in Richardson and South Oak Cliff.
Date: August 30, 1956
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/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a fire in Irving, Texas, that destroyed one home, damaged a second, started a grass fire in surrounding fields, and sent a burning station wagon driving off by itself - officials suspect the car was in reverse gear and that the fire somehow shorted the ignition, allowing the car to start.
Date: August 29, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Lake Como voting count questioned] (open access)

[News Script: Lake Como voting count questioned]

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a controversial voting outcome between Senator Daniel and Ralph Yarborough in Lake Como, in Forth Worth, Texas.
Date: August 28, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Baseball] (open access)

[News Script: Baseball]

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a dinner honoring two Texas League baseball players who set and broke the home run record.
Date: August 31, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Strike] (open access)

[News Script: Strike]

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a strike of the AFL Teamsters Union at the Associated Wholesale Grocery warehouse in the Brook Hollow industrial district of Dallas.
Date: August 27, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Shooting] (open access)

[News Script: Shooting]

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the shooting of a waitress in Garland by a Conventional Baptist church preacher.
Date: August 29, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Houston Girl Wins Miss Texas Honors] (open access)

[News Script: Houston Girl Wins Miss Texas Honors]

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the annual Miss Texas Pageant.
Date: August 5, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Nixon Warns U.S. Losing Popularity] (open access)

[News Script: Nixon Warns U.S. Losing Popularity]

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about Richard Nixon at the 57th National Encampment of the Veterans of Foreign Wars. He warns that the United States is losing popularity with other countries.
Date: August 13, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
System: The UNT Digital Library