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[News Script: Hijacker] (open access)

[News Script: Hijacker]

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a man named David Lee Lytle who drunkenly robbed a hotel and stole a car.
Date: August 7, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Marciano] (open access)

[News Script: Marciano]

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about Rocky Marciano and his relationship to a real estate company that is developing Lake Echo.
Date: August 10, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Greenway Park hearing] (open access)

[News Script: Greenway Park hearing]

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a proposed gravel mine near Greenway Park, an African American neighborhood. The "Greenway Citizens League" is against the project.
Date: August 23, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Junior Achievement] (open access)

[News Script: Junior Achievement]

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the finalists of a Junior Achievement contest.
Date: August 14, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: New Zoo Elephant is Booster for GOP] (open access)

[News Script: New Zoo Elephant is Booster for GOP]

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a young elephant purchased by Fort Worth Republicans for the Forest Park zoo.
Date: August 14, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Police Probe Blast at Lake Worth Home] (open access)

[News Script: Police Probe Blast at Lake Worth Home]

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a police looking for the cause of an explosion that demolished a house in Lake Worth Village.
Date: August 20, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: German Air Chief to View Copters] (open access)

[News Script: German Air Chief to View Copters]

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about German Colonel Horst Pape stopping in Fort Worth on his way to visit California.
Date: August 26, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Constitution Party Opens Convention] (open access)

[News Script: Constitution Party Opens Convention]

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the Constitution Party holding its convention at Hotel Texas.
Date: August 27, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Police Identify Amnesia Victim] (open access)

[News Script: Police Identify Amnesia Victim]

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the Fort Worth Police Department identifying a amnesiac woman as Irma Handley.
Date: August 10, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Traffic Snarled in 5-Vehicle Accident] (open access)

[News Script: Traffic Snarled in 5-Vehicle Accident]

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a five-car accident on Fort Worth's North-South freeway. Vehicles were barely damaged and no one was hurt significantly, but traffic was backed up for miles.
Date: August 23, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: One Man Dead in Tavern Gun Battle] (open access)

[News Script: One Man Dead in Tavern Gun Battle]

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about George Strother's shooting of Clarence Dickus over an estranged wife.
Date: August 12, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Mysterious Object Found at Rendon] (open access)

[News Script: Mysterious Object Found at Rendon]

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a magnesium cathode ground that was dug up by workers and thought to be a bomb.
Date: August 21, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Cycle race] (open access)

[News Script: Cycle race]

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about J. H. Mangham's plans to break the 210 mile per hour speed record on his motorcycle.
Date: August 12, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Gunsmith] (open access)

[News Script: Gunsmith]

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about Scotty MacKenzie, an itinerant gunsmith.
Date: August 9, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Fort Worth Fire] (open access)

[News Script: Fort Worth Fire]

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a car that caught fire inside a home garage.
Date: August 19, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Policeman Operates Home Crime Bureau] (open access)

[News Script: Policeman Operates Home Crime Bureau]

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about police officer Jimmy Dean's hobby of collecting information about criminals.
Date: August 23, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Hijacker is Victim of Plot by Police] (open access)

[News Script: Hijacker is Victim of Plot by Police]

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about Paul Davis, a man who went on a robbing spree with a friend who had tipped the police of his misdeeds.
Date: September 10, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Fair Lady Fashions Shown in Fort Worth] (open access)

[News Script: Fair Lady Fashions Shown in Fort Worth]

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the Fort Worth Women's Club and its display of fashions from the 1890s, which were being popularized by the Broadway play "My Fair Lady."
Date: September 19, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Iron Lung] (open access)

[News Script: Iron Lung]

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about Laverne Philips, a 13-year-old girl, and her impending trip to Southwestern Poliomyelitis Respiratory Center in Houston, where she will be weaned away from her iron lung.
Date: September 23, 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: Liberals Question Grand Jury Tactics] (open access)

[News Script: Liberals Question Grand Jury Tactics]

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a case of vote fraud in which twenty Tarrant County liberal democrats are called before the grand jury.
Date: September 21, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Demos] (open access)

[News Script: Demos]

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the state Democratic party's resolution to urge the upcoming state convention to put anti-integration proposals into effect.
Date: September 10, 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: First Concrete is Poured on Turnpike] (open access)

[News Script: First Concrete is Poured on Turnpike]

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about concrete paving on the Dallas - Fort Worth toll-road.
Date: September 17, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
System: The UNT Digital Library