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[News Script: Astronauts]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about four United States astronauts that visited Dallas, Texas.
Date: August 1, 1961
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: NAACP]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about Closter Current, National Director of Branches for the NAACP, coming to Dallas to address a mass meeting concerning desegregation and the Dallas Negro community can avoid mistakes.
Date: August 12, 1961
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Russian dolls]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about doll collector, Ollie A. Smith a doll collector who after sending a letter to Premier Khurschev was able to acquire Russian dolls.
Date: August 2, 1961
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Wreck and truck wreck]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about seven teenagers who were involved in a car accident near the Dallas-Irving area.
Date: August 21, 1961
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Boneheads]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the Dallas Bonehead Club playing a prank on the Six Flags Over Texas park.
Date: August 4, 1961
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: LBJ]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about Vice-President Johnson making a brief stop at Love Field in Dallas enroute to Washington.
Date: August 29, 1961
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Little red taxi]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a new taxi service in North Dallas called the "Little Red Taxi," its owner and operator being eleven year-old Noel Tardy.
Date: August 30, 1961
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Bad book]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the popular book " Tropic of Cancer" that is violating the states anti-obscenity law in bookstores that are selling this book.
Date: August 16, 1961
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Turnpike]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the raising of the speed limit of the Fort Worth-Dallas turnpike to 70 miles an hour, the highest in the state.
Date: August 28, 1961
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Kids swim]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a swimming pool that has been turned into a classroom for children who are learning to swim.
Date: August 15, 1961
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: New courthouse]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the planning of the construction of the new courthouse in Dallas county.
Date: August 12, 1961
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/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the golfers practicing before competing in the thirty-thousand dollar Dallas Open.
Date: August 30, 1961
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Accident]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about an accident which involved the wife of a Dallas fire captain and the Holbert family, which minutes earlier had just reunited with their son after his return from Bogata, Colombia.
Date: August 12, 1961
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Safety]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about concerns Dallas County would like to address in its Home Safety Campaign, including such things as; flammable hairspray, unstable ladders, or falls.
Date: August 17, 1961
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Worm farm]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about Robert Hill of Cedar Hill, becoming a large of supplier of worms, due to his large scale worm farming practice.
Date: August 11, 1961
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Bryan log cabin]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a historical log cabin that was built by a Tennessee pioneer, John Neely Bryan.
Date: August 15, 1961
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Safeway robbery]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a robbery at a Dallas Safeway grocery store.
Date: August 4, 1961
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Wreck]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a couple who were involved in a car accident. They are in the hospital.
Date: August 28, 1961
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Cop assaulted]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a cop that was assaulted by three men in Dallas.
Date: August 29, 1961
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Stang]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about comedian Arnold Stang visiting the Scottish Rite Crippled Children's hospital in Dallas to deliver a print of his latest movie.
Date: August 2, 1961
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Murder charges filed]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about murder charges pressed against Hartie E. "Tex" Webster, in connection with the shooting of Billy Dabbs and his wife.
Date: August 12, 1961
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: B-17]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the restoration and the use of B-17 planes used to re-enact scenes of the World War Two movie, "The War Lover."
Date: August 28, 1961
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Fatality]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a local man killed on his bicycle in Dallas, Texas.
Date: August 2, 1961
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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