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[News Script: Prisoners Donate Blood: Terms Cut]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about prisoners donating pints of blood in exchange for having a week of time removed from their sentences.
Date: August 23, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Sexton]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the coming trial of eighteen-year-old Frank Sexton Jr.. Sexton is accused of beating and raping a woman with three other youths. The state is expected to ask for the death penalty.
Date: July 23, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Commissioners Save Courthouse Trees]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about Tarrant County Commissioners saving two small Magnolia trees on the west side of the courthouse. A new civil court house will be built where the trees were planted.
Date: December 7, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Sonny Evans]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about two young men being questioned about beatings to four men inside a jail cell. The men in question are Robert Lee Campbell and Sonny Evans.
Date: July 17, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Prisoner file suit]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about two prisoners in Nacogdoches County Jail filing a class action suit to correct conditions in jail.
Date: July 18, 1972, 12:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Jail break]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about officers who are looking for seven prisoners who escaped from Harris County Rehabilitation Center.
Date: October 5, 1972, 8:25 a.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Prisoners]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about a search for five prisoners that broke out from the Fort Bend County Jail at Richmond.
Date: May 29, 1972, 12:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Jail break]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about two prisoners that broke out of the Van Zandt County Jail.
Date: August 25, 1972, 12:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Huntsville]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about the Hunt County Sheriff and another local officer that was killed when three prisoners that were being tranffered and overpowered the lawmen.
Date: July 18, 1972, 10:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Jones & lie detection]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about Dallas County Sheriff ordering polygraph examinations for a prisoner that escaped and the prison employees due to allegations the escapee made concerning the jail operations.
Date: August 25, 1972, 12:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Prisoners captured]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about two men who escaped from the Van Zandt County Jail being recaptured in Dallas.
Date: August 26, 1972, 6:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Hijack]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story.
Date: September 15, 1972, 10:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Tease]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering teasers of news stories about the hearing for the kidnapping of Amanda Dealey and a prisoner creating art.
Date: January 3, 1973
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Simmons]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story.
Date: September 25, 1969, 6:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Prison]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story.
Date: September 28, 1969, 10:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Vietnam]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story.
Date: October 30, 1969, 10:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Women]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story.
Date: September 16, 1969, 10:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Vietnam]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story.
Date: October 27, 1969, 12:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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