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[News Clip: Husband Charged in Murder of Wife]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story about a Fort Worth electrician's murder of his wife, Mrs. Clara Payne, who was found a mile north of the city on the old Decatur Road.
Date: September 11, 1956
Duration: 1 minute 46 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Husband Charged in Murder of Wife]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a Fort Worth electrician's murder of his wife, Mrs. Clara Payne, who was found a mile north of the city on the old Decatur Road.
Date: September 11, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Demo Convention]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a state convention in Fort Worth which tested the strength of both liberals and conservatives.
Date: September 11, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Debate]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a debate between Congressman Bruce Alger and District Attorney Henry Wade in Dallas.
Date: September 11, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Road]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a meeting between Alonzo Taylor, John A. Volpe, and Jim Wright at Carter Field. Volpe is in town to look over the city's freeway system.
Date: December 11, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Moore]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about Tom Moore, the McLennan County District Attorney and his campaign for State Attorney General.
Date: July 11, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Minor]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about an accident in Dallas. Truck driver Hubert Isham snapped a light pole, because his truck was too wide for the road.
Date: July 11, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Sheriff and Suspect Wounded in Gunplay]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a gunfight in a vacant house in Kaufman county. Sheriff James Becker, farmer L. C. Gary, C. K. Lang, and Jim Baggett were involved in the incident.
Date: November 11, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Hungarian Refugees Arrive in Houston]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about Hungarian refugees arriving in Houston. Nineteen Hungarian families are being offered residence in Houston through the Jewish Community Council.
Date: December 11, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Air National Guard]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the Air National Guard Veteran's Day parade in Grand Prairie. Members of the 136th Fighter-Interceptor wing, and some of their fathers, take part in the parade.
Date: November 11, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Fire (House)]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a house that was destroyed by a fire near Handley. The fire is believed to have started in an evaporated cooler.
Date: October 11, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Heating Unit is Blamed for Blaze]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a fire that severely damaged the Poindexter Furniture Company in Fort Worth. A heating unit is blamed for the fire.
Date: December 11, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Coke bottles]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a Coca Cola truck that spilled twenty cases of soda when it hit a bump at an intersection in Dallas. Volunteers helped the driver, O. K. Harrison, clean up the mess.
Date: July 11, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Hearing postponed on medical charges]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about I. R. Conner, who is fighting demands of Leonard Davis, sheriff of Osage County, Missouri, that Conner return to the state to face charges of swindling. The state alleges that Conner swindled an elderly woman out of one-thousand-and-three-hundred dollars by professing to know a cure for cataracts.
Date: July 11, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Ladies Jailed Over Dogs]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the arrest of two sisters, Beatrice and Katherine Hernandez, for violation of the city's sanitation ordinances. They were living in one room with five dogs and thirteen cats.
Date: October 11, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Museum]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a new totem pole at Fort Worth's Children's Museum. The totem pole accompanies a new exhibit about the evolution of man.
Date: October 11, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Youth Admits Four Ft. Worth Robberies]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about Roy Charles Kizer, a paroled convict who admits to robbing the Fisher Finance and Loan company of six-hundred dollars. He also confesses to robbing three 711 stores.
Date: November 11, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Marines]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a party in Dallas, held in observance of the 181st anniversary of the founding of the United States Marine Corps. Two-hundred people attend the event.
Date: November 11, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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