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[News Script: Six workers hurt in gasoline blast]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about an explosion, caused by an open pan of gasoline, sending six negro employees at the Texcrete company in Fort Worth to the hospital.
Date: February 14, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Three Alarm Fire]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a fire in downtown Dallas, which destroys the second floor of a two-story brick building belonging to the Powers of Dallas clothing company.
Date: February 19, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Dope]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about several people arrested for selling illegal drugs after five months of undercover work in Dallas. Those arrested include Aldo Phillips, George Young, Sie Brooks, John Melvin Steele, William Davis, and others.
Date: February 22, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: One Dead, 2 Hurt in Two Shootings]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about Herbert Junior Lynch, who died of gunshot wounds, which he reportedly received from a car full of Latin American youths. One of Lynch's companions was also wounded. Also in Fort Worth, Mrs. Mary Zarate Tejo admits to shooting Jesse Linan, who was attacking her husband.
Date: February 17, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Roy Rogers and Dale Evans]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about Roy Rogers and Dale Evans visiting Commerce, where they present the top national safety award to W. J. Wheeler Elementary School.
Date: February 16, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: New Protests Filed on Communist Art]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the Dallas County Patriotic Council attempting to stop the Dallas Museum of Art from exhibiting work by alleged communist sympathizers.
Date: February 22, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Air Search]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a continued search for James E. Cunningham and Fred J. Verrips, two Convair employees who presumably parachuted from a B-36 bomber when a flash fire broke out in the plane. The search for the day centers around the town of Argyle, and plans are made to search Lake Dallas tomorrow.
Date: February 7, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Ambassador]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about Ambassador Gebhardt Walther of Germany getting ready to board a plane at Carter Field. His new post is the Ambassador to Mexico.
Date: February 8, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Handball]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a handball match between Alvis Grant and Gus Lewis in the DAC Invitational tournament.
Date: February 12, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Students from Asia Tell of Problems]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about Charles Tso-Lei Yen, of Taipei, Formosa, and Praphorn Charuchandr, of Bankok, Thailand, studying in Oklahoma in hopes of bettering living conditions in their home countries.
Date: February 19, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Richburg]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about Mrs. Earl C. Jones, Justice of the Peace in Mexia, seeking advice from Dallas' Justice of the Peace Bill Richburg.
Date: February 27, 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 station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the shooting death of Willie Mills by Mrs. Betty Neal Phillips, who wanted Mills to stop showing her affection.
Date: February 12, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Fur]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the arrival of Rosemary Sheehan, National Fashion Coordinator for the National Chinchilla Breeders of America, in Fort Worth for the Sixth Annual Chinchilla Roundup.
Date: February 9, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Escape Artist is Given More Time]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about Leonard J. Williams, who has escaped from law enforcement officers thirteen times. He receives five more years in prison, in addition to the 27-year term he is currently serving.
Date: February 13, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: TCU Football]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the start of spring football drills at Texas Christian University.
Date: February 6, 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 an accident between the dump truck of G. H. Adams and the car of J. G. Dalton.
Date: February 28, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Vaughn Building Flag]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the raising of a flag at the fifteen-story Vaughn building in downtown Dallas. The building is scheduled to be complete in October.
Date: February 7, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Jaycees]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the Fort Worth Junior Chamber of Commerce holding its sixth annual awards dinner. The dinner honors Bobby Bragan, manager of the Pittsburgh Pirate baseball team and Fort Worth's Outstanding Young Man of 1956.
Date: February 3, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Fire Plug]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about flooding on Bryan Street in Fort Worth. A truck smashed into a fire plug, causing thousands of gallons of water to spill out onto the road.
Date: February 6, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: News Briefs--Students]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about thirty-three north Texas students leaving for a state convention of Distributive Education.
Date: February 16, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Land Suit]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a 3-hundred-million-dollar damage suit about an industrial development near Arlington between Milton L. Stern and William Zeckendorf. Final arguments are heard, and Judge Peurifoy says he will have a decision ready tomorrow at noon.
Date: February 17, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Porter Thinks Ike Will Carry Texas]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about Jack Porter, a Republican National Committeeman, who believes Ike will carry Texas.
Date: February 29, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Parents of Three Are Shot to Death]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about C. H. Ellis, Jr. and Elouise Ellis, parents to three children. The parents apparently died in a murder-suicide.
Date: February 24, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Traffic Slowed by Ice Coated Streets]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about icy roads in Fort Worth and Dallas. Five deaths have been blamed on the storm.
Date: February 2, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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