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[News Script: Mansfield]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a meeting in the Tarrant County Court House after violence broke out over school desegregation in Mansfield.
Date: September 17, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Murder-Suicide]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about Warren H. Foster's murder of his brother-in-law Homer Mattley, and his subsequent suicide.
Date: September 16, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Demos]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the Texas Democratic Convention, and the controversy surrounding Senator Price Daniel and Ralph Yarborough and the upcoming presidential race.
Date: September 9, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Interracial Committee]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the first meeting of Mayor Garrison's ten-man interracial committee in Fort Worth, as well as criticism from the city's Riverside neighborhoods.
Date: September 18, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Hagler Sentenced to Six Month Term]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the sentencing of David Fred Hagler, a man acquitted for murder, but convicted for making false statements about his obtainment of F.H.A. loans.
Date: September 17, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Mansfield]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about U.S. Supreme Court Justice Minton granting Mansfield high school the opportunity to delay a court order requiring the school to admit African American students.
Date: September 2, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Night Club Wrecked by Terrible Blast]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a mysterious explosion that leveled a night club in Fort Worth, Texas, and damaged businesses and homes in the surrounding area.
Date: September 3, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Melon]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a competition between watermelons from Arkansas and Weatherford.
Date: September 28, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Conservatives]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a voting fraud case, where eight conservative democrats were called before the Tarrant County Grand Jury as witnesses.
Date: September 25, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Can Company Plant Holds Dedication]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the dedication of the American Can Company, or Canco, in Arlington, a business which will employ 170 people.
Date: September 20, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Mrs. Dulles]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about Mrs. John Foster Dulles, wife of secretary of state, landing at Fort Worth's Carter Field on her way to Monterrey to visit her son.
Date: September 12, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Grass Fire Damages Fort Worth Houses]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a grass fire, one of hundreds that occurred that summer, that damaged two homes in the Riverside section of Fort Worth.
Date: September 13, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: El Grotto]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the Fort Worth parade of El Grotto, a social club of Master Masons, as part of the Masonic Order's Southwest convention at Hotel Texas.
Date: September 2, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Officer Who Charged Cheating is Fired]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about Jack King, a Fort Worth police officer who lost his job over his allegations that police civil service examinations for promotion are dishonest.
Date: September 21, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: LS. Council]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the approval of a new hangar for Southwest Aircraft at Fort Worth's Meacham Field, as well as proposed salary increases for Fort Worth firefighters.
Date: September 19, 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 tire fire at the Hicks Rubber and Salvage Company near Meacham field in Fort Worth.
Date: September 20, 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/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the beating of J. R. Bledsue, who refused to offer any information about himself or the beating.
Date: September 5, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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