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[News Script: Cab Presentation]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about awards for a bombing competition at Carswell Air Force Base. Howard D. Moore of the 11th Bomb Wing is presented with a plaque.
Date: October 8, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: SMU team]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the SMU team getting ready to leave for Columbia, Missouri where they will play the University of Missouri. A caravan of fans will follow them.
Date: October 5, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Rubber House]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a portable warehouse composed of rubber. The warehouse was made by the U.S. Rubber Company and given to Addison Brown.
Date: October 16, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: TCU Basketball]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the TCU basketball time as it gets ready for the 1956 season.
Date: October 15, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Fires]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about firefighters working to kill fires at Pioneer Palace in Tarrant County. Volunteer firefighters use the fire for training purposes.
Date: October 28, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Burglars]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about two robbers, Eddie Lee Shelton and Leonard Kubick. They were captured by Fort Worth police as they robbed a drugstore.
Date: October 29, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Journalism]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a luncheon at SMU honoring four Texas journalists. Award winners include James Byron, Paul Crume, Bill Glines, and Martha L. Zhart.
Date: October 12, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Dulles]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about State Secretary Dulles. He makes a foreign policy address at SMU's McFarlin Auditorium.
Date: October 28, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Krick]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the Dallas City Council's decision to cancel its clouding-seeding contract with Dr. Krick.
Date: October 22, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Ann Neyland]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about Ann Neyland, a Dallas model, who leaves Dallas for Hollywood. She will pursue a movie career there.
Date: October 16, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Payoff Started at River Oaks Bank]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the FDIC beginning to pay off debtors of the River Oaks State Bank, which recently closed. Most accounts are paid in full.
Date: October 23, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Waples-Platter Hijacking]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a forty-year-old man robbing five-hundred dollars from the Waples-Platter wholesale company. Arial Smith and Dillard Ames recount the events.
Date: October 31, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Miami Trips Frogs in Listless Game]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a football game between the TCU Horned Frogs and the University of Miami Hurricanes. The Miami Hurricanes won the game after an unimpressive performance by TCU.
Date: October 28, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: AA Landing]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about an investigation into an emergency landing made by an American Airlines passenger plane. One person, D. E. Hampton, received burns on his hands as he exited the plane on an emergency chute.
Date: October 26, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Fashions]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about new fashions being shown at the Merchandise Mart in Dallas.
Date: October 22, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Sexton Trial]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the trial of Frank Sexton Junior, who is accused of raping a Dallas mother. Sexton says he was drunk when he signed a statement admitting the crime.
Date: October 20, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: News briefs]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a rumor in a Fort Worth neighborhood that a home in a white neighborhood had been sold to African Americans. Neighbors protested until the rumor was found to not be true.
Date: October 25, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Husband Charged in Wife's Murder]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about murder charges being pressed against James W. Ellis for the shooting of his wife Rose. Ellis claims the shooting was an accident, but he has told different stories with discrepancies between them, leading investigators to believe the gunfire was intentional.
Date: October 6, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Frank Le Bow Junior]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about Clinton Marion LeBow Junior, who fatally stabbed a boy in Oak Cliff. He admitted his crime to the police.
Date: October 15, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Case]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about Allen Case, an actor who will play a part in the musical "Damn Yankees" at the State Fair of Texas.
Date: October 3, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Boots]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about Idaho governor Robert Smylie getting fitted for cowboy boots. His host is Roy Simms, who is making a traffic safety film for the state of Idaho. The film will be narrated by Smylie.
Date: October 4, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Golf]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a celebrity exhibition match at Riverlake Country Club in Dallas. Proceeds from the match will benefit Cerebral Palsy victims. Celebrities include Mickey Mantle, Cary Middlecoff, and Doak Walker.
Date: October 28, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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