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[News Script: Four Injured]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a butane gas explosion that injured four people in Dallas, Texas.
Date: August 6, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Shooting]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about Alvie LaMarr being arrested following the murder of his wife, Samantha LaMarr.
Date: August 6, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Boy Revived After Accident at Pool]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a nine year old boy nearly drowning after hitting his head at the bottom of a pool.
Date: August 6, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Acid]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about two Dallas workers at Valley Steel Products being sprayed with sulfuric acid.
Date: August 6, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Young Indians Come to Aid of Dr. Kirck]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about children performing a rain dance.
Date: August 6, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Ground Leveled at Industrial District]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about ground being leveled on a thousand acre tract of land in Arlington, Texas, by the Great Southwest Corporation.
Date: August 6, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: City Council]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the Dallas city council putting the Dallas Museum of Art under control of Dallas' park board.
Date: August 6, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Film Released on Atomic Reactor]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a converted B-36 Bomber aircraft that contains a working atomic reactor.
Date: August 6, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script:Democrats Squabble as Convention Nears]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the search for hotel rooms by Conservatives for the upcoming state Democratic Convention.
Date: September 6, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Vote Count]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a probe into alleged voting fraud in Tarrant County's August 25th Democratic runoff.
Date: September 6, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: City Worker Killed When Ditch Caves In]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the death of a Fort Worth water department worker, William F. Russell from the caving-in of a ditch.
Date: September 6, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: South Dallas Shooting]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the murder of Louis Arthur Koerber, who was shot to death in the Dallas home of his estranged wife.
Date: September 6, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Dogs]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a carpenter, A.C. Maddox, who is building dog houses for sale. He has a "city" of more than 20 dog houses in his backyard.
Date: September 6, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Arlington Dam]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the progress of a one-mile dam being built in Arlington, Texas, due for completion by the end of 1956.
Date: September 6, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Morrow]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about Abilene Christian College graduates congratulating Bobby Morrow, a member of the 1956 Olympic Team. Byron Nelson speaks at the banquet, and J. Woodie Holden presents Morrow with a plaque from the Fort Worth chapter of ACC graduates.
Date: October 6, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Confessed Murdered to Face Grand Jury]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about confessed killer Henry C. Koehn. He awaits grand jury action on charges of murder and assault to murder of a Negro farmer.
Date: December 6, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Football]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a football game between Fort Worth's Paschal High School Panthers and the Cleburne Yellow Jackets. Cleburne wins the game.
Date: October 6, 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: Plane crashes at Grand Prairie]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a single-engine plane that crashed into telephone wires while attempting to land at the Grand Prairie Airport. The pilot is Royce Brown, and he is detained by police for questioning.
Date: July 6, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Hog]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a hog owned by Reverend C. H. Henderson, which looks like a Hereford. It is known as a "White Faced Hereford Hog."
Date: July 6, 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 the annual Jaycee Golf Tournament in Fort Worth. Bob Jones and Bill Crawford tie.
Date: July 6, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: SDX]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the newspaperman of the year party, held by the Sigma Delta Chi fraternity. Ethel Solomon, a student at Texas State College for Women, is given a two-year journalism scholarship. Ed M. Pooley, editor of the El Paso Herald, wins the newspaperman of the year award.
Date: October 6, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Tutt Trial]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the trial of Nona Mae Tutt in Fort Worth. She pleads guilty to the shooting of her husband.
Date: December 6, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Beating]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about Carroll Eugene Smith of Dallas admitting to the beating of Joy Green. Green was beaten with a hammer in her apartment and was left near death.
Date: December 6, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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