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[News Script: Cosmo]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about Cosmo, canine deputy for the Tarrant County Sheriff's Department who was the special guest at the Ridglea Cosmopolitan Club's weekly breakfast; Cosmo helped capture a robber just days ago, and demonstrates a number of his skills with handler Deputy Sheriff Fletcher Usrey and Sergeant Leonard Buch of Carswell Air Force Base - with interested and impressed Fort Worth City Manager Laurie Perry (L.P.) Cookingham a… more
Date: December 21, 1961
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Rodeo stock]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the National Finals Rodeo that takes place a the State Fair Livestock Coliseum.
Date: December 21, 1961
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Kim sisters]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the singing Kim sisters who arrive to Dallas.
Date: December 21, 1961
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Flower Drum Song]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the Fort Worth premiere of The Flower Drum Song at the Palace Theater; This first Fort Worth premier since the early 1950s was provided free by Universal International Pictures, Decca Records, and Interstate Theaters so that all proceeds can be split between two charities - Goodfellows, sponsored by the Star Telegram, and Santa Pals, sponsored by the Fort Worth Press. As part of the festivities, a coin toss d… more
Date: December 21, 1961
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 the investigation of a shooting.
Date: December 21, 1961
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/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the robbery that took place in a loan company in Fort Worth.
Date: December 21, 1961
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Priests ordained]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the ordination of 5 new priests at St. Christopher's Episcopal Church in Fort Worth; The Right Reverend C. Avery Mason, Bishop of the Diocese of Dallas officiates at the ceremony, where the Reverends Robert McCrory, James Garrard, Jared Foster, Paul Bigger and Phillip Gill complete the process of becoming priests, which has included 4 years of undergraduate study, 3 years in a seminary, and six months apprenti… more
Date: December 21, 1961
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Cubans]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about 4 Cuban refugees in Fort Worth; Brothers Ignacio and Vicente Perez, Louis Canizares and Jose Gonzales were on their way to California to find jobs when they broke down in Fort Worth and liked it so much they decided to stay. The youths left Cuba to escape serving in Castro's militia, two of them escaping in a rented rowboat with 3 others and rowing and drifting the 100 miles to Miami.
Date: December 21, 1961
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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