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[News Clip: McKeon Court Martial is Called Mistake ; Marciano ; Tarrant County 4-H Club Fair Opens ; Police Identify Amnesia Victim ; Bird and Cat]

Description: Video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany five news stories. The first is about Timothy Murphy, National Commander of the Veterans of Foreign Wars, visiting Dallas for the organization's 37th National Encampment. He campaigns for veteran's pensions and thinks the court martial of Sergeant Matthew McKeon is a mistake. Next is a story about Rocky Marciano and his relationship to a real estate company that is developing Lake Echo. The third covers the first annu… more
Date: August 10, 1956
Duration: 8 minutes 18 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Sonny Evans]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the arrest of teenager Sonny Evans, who was found in a car near the scene of a tavern where somebody had torn off the back screen, supposedly in a burglary effort.
Date: September 7, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: News Briefs - Gas Leak]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a police barricade in Fort Worth, Texas, to prevent a possible gas explosion - Lone Star Gas company workmen accidentally broke a gas main, sending fumes into the neighborhood.
Date: September 4, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Youth Charged in Murder of Mother]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about Charles Cole being charged with murder regarding the death shooting death of his mother while trying to murder his step-father.
Date: August 14, 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 a burglar who engaged police in a firefight.
Date: August 19, 1956
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 a motorcycle policeman crashing into a pickup truck.
Date: August 22, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Cates]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about Frank Cates, who was critically injured when dynamite exploded under his house.
Date: August 2, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Wounded Officer Tells of Shooting]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about Eddie Kelliher, a police officer who was critically injured by a gunman. He was also run over by a truck driven by the gunman.
Date: November 18, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Blast]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about an explosion at a Fort Worth parking garage. Three people were injured.
Date: July 1, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Dope Peddlers Hit in Mass Roundup]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the arrest of over one-hundred people suspected of dealing marijuana. It is the largest mass arrest of narcotics violators in the history of the city.
Date: July 22, 1956
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 station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about an accident involving thee cars and six injured persons. Those injured include John C. Knox, Mr. and Mrs. John C. Knox Senior, Edward W. Ewing, Mary Pritchett, and William Joe Morton.
Date: July 8, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Freak accident]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about an accident involving two trucks. One truck, driven by R. J. Holt, ran into the truck of James McEnturff at a stoplight. Holt's truck was carrying an artillery piece for the army.
Date: July 17, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Train]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about Jack Walker, a grader operator in Haltom City, who was killed at a railroad crossing. The grader may have been too loud for Walker to hear the train whistle.
Date: July 23, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Traffic crash]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a traffic accident between a heavily-loaded truck and two vehicles. Five people were killed and five were seriously injured.
Date: July 24, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Burglars]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about two robbers, Eddie Lee Shelton and Leonard Kubick. They were captured by Fort Worth police as they robbed a drugstore.
Date: October 29, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Robbery]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a robbery at a liquor store in Dallas. An African American man robbed sixty-six-year-old P. M. Gendler of one-hundred dollar.
Date: July 10, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: $60,000 in Jewels Missing from Vault]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about $60 thousand dollars worth of jewels, which went missing from the Statler-Hilton hotel in Dallas. 39 police officers work on the case.
Date: November 23, 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: News briefs - accident]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a Dallas driver, Jeff Reed Junior, who struck an elderly pedestrian, Noel Riddle. Riddle is not believed to have been seriously injured.
Date: July 15, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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