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[News Script: Carlton]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a mandamus suit to force the Dallas Transit company to bring back segregated seating.
Date: September 25, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Fire]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a warehouse fire in Dallas' Trinity Industrial District.
Date: September 25, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Miss Flame]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a contest to decide who will be Dallas' Miss Flame for Fire Prevention Week.
Date: September 25, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Bear All American Has Busy Saturday]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about Bill Glass, a football player for Baylor. He gives a sermon at a youth rally following a football game against SMU.
Date: November 25, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Vice Raid]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about two vice-squad officers, W. M. Hughes and J. L. Riddle, and their arrest of the owner of a party venue and three women who took part in a lewd show.
Date: July 25, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Boy Admits Shooting]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about fourteen-year-old Tommy Lightfoot, who admits to shooting and killing T. L. Jackson.
Date: October 25, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Kennedy]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the arrival of Lyndon Johnson and John Kennedy at Love Field. Kennedy visits for a three-day tour of the state.
Date: October 25, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Fire Folo]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a crowd of curious people visiting the Southland Feed Mill, where an explosion killed two workers yesterday.
Date: November 25, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Frank Lloyd Wright]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the arrival of Frank Lloyd Wright in Preston Hollow en route from Phoenix to St. Louis.
Date: November 25, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Mighty Mites]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the Midget Bowl, a series for teams in the PeeWee League. The Bowl is set to occur next Thursday and Friday at Sprague Field in Dallas.
Date: November 25, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Dirt]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about thirty-one pounds of Texas soil being returned from Japan. Japan has a law that bans the importation of foreign soil, so it was sent back. It will be deposited at the Pollard Simons Building site.
Date: July 25, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Russell]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about Jane and Bob Russell visiting the Merchandise Mart. They visit Dallas to promote the film "Run for the Sun."
Date: July 25, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Buses]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the desegregation of Dallas city buses after a Supreme Court ruling.
Date: April 25, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Prof. Pusey]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about Nathan Marsh Pusey, President of Harvard University, arriving in Dallas to begin a tour of the Southwestern states.
Date: January 25, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Gas]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a bulldozer breaking a gas line on a demolition site in Dallas, resulting in a brief panic until the gas flow is shut off.
Date: May 25, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Dallas City Council]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the Dallas City Council meeting for the first time in new chambers to discuss and order new restrictions to the water usage in the city.
Date: June 25, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Ground breaking]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about groundbreaking ceremonies in Dallas for a new downtown office building intended to house the Dallas Federal Loan Association.
Date: April 25, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Coach Arrives]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about Henry Stram, the new backfield coach at Southern Methodist University.
Date: January 25, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Water Birds Try Out New Zoo Home]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a group of birds captured from the Texas Gulf coast by Elvie Turner arriving at the Marsalis Zoo in Dallas.
Date: June 25, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Butler trial]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the murder trial of Charles John Butler, a Dallas man accused of killing his wife for insurance money. The jury returns a guilty verdict and gives Butler the death penalty.
Date: April 25, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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