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[News Script: Mustangs roll on, beat Frogs]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the 1957 Southwest Conference basketball game between the Southern Methodist University Mustangs and the Texas Christian University Horned Frogs.
Date: January 13, 1957
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
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[News Script: Madam Queen]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about Ruth C. Deaton of Omaha, the supreme queen of the Daughters of the Nile, arriving in Fort Worth.
Date: January 13, 1957
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
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[News Script: Meek]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about SMU's new football coach Bill Meek house hunting in Dallas.
Date: January 13, 1957
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
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[News Script: Triplets]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about Dallas' second set of 1957 triplets being born at Methodist Dallas.
Date: February 13, 1957
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
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[News Script: Swindler]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about swindler James Glenn Hutson putting on false identities in towns across the country in order to wrongfully claim money.
Date: January 13, 1957
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
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[News Script: Dope]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about Dallas officers seizing heroin from one of the city's big heroin dealers, Clarence McCommon.
Date: February 13, 1957
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
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[News Script: Vaccine]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about Wynnewood Presbyterian Church in Dallas offering Polio vaccines after their Sunday services.
Date: January 13, 1957
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
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[News Script: Hijacking]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a robbery at the Shamrock Liquor store in downtown Fort Worth.
Date: January 13, 1957
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
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[News Script: House in creek]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a small, one-story Dallas house being washed away in a flood. All three occupants escaped unharmed.
Date: May 13, 1957
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
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[News Script: Ballet]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the Chicago Opera Ballet performing two shows, The Merry Widow and Revenge, at Fort Worth's Will Rogers Memorial Auditorium. Stars of the ballet were Oleg Briansky and Marjorie Tallchief, who went on to be the first American prima ballerina at the Paris Grand Opera.
Date: February 13, 1957
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
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[News Script: The week in review]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a review of the week's top news stories: a two-plane collision that killed four people in Fort Worth, a teenage boy being shot by police after breaking into a Fort Worth home, five Dallas children being vaccinated for rabies after being bit by a rabid dog, a Dallas grand jury investigating the Physician's Life and Accident Insurance Company, Tarrant County appointing its first female head of a grand jury, and a five-year-old Fort Wo… more
Date: April 13, 1957
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
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[News Script: Swink]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about Jim Swink, a TCU halfback, arriving home from Boston where he received the sportsmanship trophy from the Gridiron Club of Boston.
Date: January 13, 1957
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
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[News Clip: More deaths to come, says chief]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about Dallas' chief of police predicting more traffic deaths after a record-breaking 63 deaths in 1957.
Date: December 13, 1957
Duration: 2 minutes 17 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
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[News Clip: Stolen cars]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about a bunch of stolen cars.
Date: November 13, 1957
Duration: 2 minutes 33 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
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[News Clip: Truman]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about former president Harry Truman arriving at Union Station in Dallas to give an address at Southern Methodist University.
Date: May 13, 1957
Duration: 1 minute 35 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
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[News Script: Jose Iturbi]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about pianist Jose Iturbi coming to Dallas with his dog to make a guest appearance as conductor for the Dallas Symphony Orchestra.
Date: December 13, 1957
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
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