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[News Script: Delay]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about I. R. Conner and his charges for swindling an elderly Missouri woman for a large sum of money in a phony medical scheme. He has won, for the time being, his desire to prevent his extradition to Missouri to face those charges.
Date: July 12, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Bigamist's wives become friends]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about Harold Thetford, who left his first wife and later married another woman. The first wife, Bobbie Mae, found out that her husband had married again and called the new wife, Ima Hattie. Both women became friends.
Date: July 12, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Sexton]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the coming trial of eighteen-year-old Frank Sexton Jr.. Sexton is accused of beating and raping a woman with three other youths. The state is expected to ask for the death penalty.
Date: July 23, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Water Council Story]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about complaints that Fort Worth has not seen much rain. Improvements to the water system are mentioned.
Date: July 25, 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 station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a meeting of Dallas county commissioners on how to get rid of the county's rabid dogs. J. M. Pickard presents a potential solution, but not everyone agrees with his ideas. A decision will be made at a later date.
Date: July 23, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Dickens]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the formal sentencing of Raymond Seymour Dickens, a convicted rapist. He receives a ninety-nine year prison sentence.
Date: July 30, 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: Pruitt denied new trial]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about eighteen-year-old Bennie Pruitt asking to be spared of his five-year prison sentence. He was found to have taken part in a robbery and beating of two men, which resulted in their death. Judge McGee says that the original verdict must stand.
Date: July 20, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Tarrant Commissioners]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the construction of new wings to the Tarrant county courthouse. County commissioners decided to add the new wings rather than build a separate site.
Date: July 23, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Hagler]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about Mrs. Elisabeth Bergmann Hagler, wife of David Fred Hagler, key figure in an Oklahoma torch-murder. Mrs. Hagler divorces her husband in a short hearing at the Tarrant County Courthouse.
Date: July 24, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Rapists]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about two fifteen-year-old boys charged with the rape and beating of a young couple. The boys are William Eason and Donald Mitchell. The youths are sentenced to confinement at the Gatesville State School for Boys until they turn twenty-one.
Date: July 19, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Dallas council]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about the Dallas City Council going on record in support of the dealth penalty in specific areas.
Date: July 10, 1972, 6:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: County clerk investigated]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about the Tarrant County clerk's office being investigated by a Commissioners Court of Inquiry for reports of kickbacks, an illegal flower fund and an office lottery.
Date: July 25, 1972, 12:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Shooting Eastland]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about a constable being shot and wounded during a recess of a trial at the Eastland County Courthouse.
Date: July 24, 1972, 6:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Kerr to Stroop]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about the John McKee embezzlemnt trial going into its second day of testimonies in Dallas and Texas Insurance Board members agreeing informally to cut car insurance rates by an average of 11 cent.
Date: July 27, 1972, 12:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: 99 years]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about Ronald Ross Thompson being sentenced to 99 year in prison for robbery.
Date: July 12, 1972, 12:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: McKee trial]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about testimonies opening in the embezzlement trial of John McKee.
Date: July 26, 1972, 6:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: McKee]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about former Dallas Crime Commission president, John McKee, standing trial in Dallas.
Date: July 25, 1972, 6:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: McKee trial]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about the top-ranking Scottish Rite Mason tesifying in the embezzlement trial of John McKee and eight people killed in a three-car collision.
Date: July 27, 1972, 10:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Rape trial]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about the district court jury in Dallas returning a guilty verdict against a high school teacher accused of raping a legal secretary.
Date: July 17, 1972, 10:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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