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[News Script: Brief--Doctor]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about Doctor George Sperti, a scientist who visits Fort Worth for a lecture at Will Rogers Memorial Auditorium.
Date: January 11, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Church Building]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about members of the Oaklawn Church of Christ constructing a new church auditorium.
Date: January 2, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Rainmaker]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the Fort Worth City Council meeting to discuss the pros and cons of rain-making.
Date: April 25, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Robbery]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about Fort Worth police possibly arresting one of the three men who robbed the home of Dr. Webb Walker.
Date: April 25, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Family escapes in parking lot gunplay]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about gunshots exchanged between a Fort Worth tavern owner and another man who threatened him and his family in a parking lot. No one was injured, and the suspect escaped.
Date: May 29, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Houston officials see youth program]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a police-sponsored youth auto club holding drag racing competitions at Eagle Mountain Lake, in an effort to reduce juvenile delinquency.
Date: April 8, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Princess]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about Her Royal Highness Ileana, Princess of Romania, and her honor at a luncheon in Fort Worth.
Date: January 19, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Train]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about Dixie Boy Boyd celebrating his seventh birthday by riding the Texas Eagle train.
Date: February 24, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Rodeo]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a rodeo contest at the sixtieth annual Southwestern Exposition and Fat Stock Show Rodeo in Fort Worth.
Date: January 31, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Girls]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the presentation of nineteen Mardia Gras princesses at the Hilton hotel in Fort Worth.
Date: February 5, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Mush Dogs]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about an exhibit of a team of sled dogs at the Southwestern Exposition and Fat Show in Fort Worth. The dogs are half-wolf, part German Shepherd, and part police dog.
Date: February 1, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Publisher jailed in gambling probe]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the jailing of William Prescott Allen, publisher of the Laredo Times, for false charges of gambling and bribe taking against Fort Worth police officers.
Date: February 21, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Grand Jury quizzes newsman on gaming]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about an editorial in the Laredo Times, which charged a group of police officers with taking payoffs on vice and gambling in Fort Worth. A subpoena has been issues for the Laredo Times publisher, William Prescot Allen, because the charges are apparently unfounded.
Date: February 16, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: War dead honored in annual rites]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about Memorial Day services honoring servicemen killed in action, held at the Doughboy Monument at Fort Worth's Mount Olivet Cemetery.
Date: May 27, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Frogs]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the honoring of Abe Martin, football coach at Texas Christian University, with a Dateline Award.
Date: January 4, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Lucy and Desi Get Fort Worth Welcome]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the welcoming of Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz to the Western Hills Hotel in Fort Worth. Ball and Arnaz are traveling the country to publicize their new film, "Forever Darling."
Date: February 12, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Effigies]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about property damage and the installment of four effigies, three black and one white, in a tree on the property of Mrs. F. H. Newton in Highland Park.
Date: February 15, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Suspect trapped by letter: Loot found]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the arrest of Garvey Goldman Corbin, a Fort Worth man suspected to be a member of a gang of thieves in the city. Nine truckloads of stolen goods are recovered after Corbin's arrest.
Date: June 3, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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