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[News Script: Heart laboratory dedication held]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the opening of a new heart laboratory and the Mary Louise Phillips Memorial Radioactive Isotope Center in Fort Worth.
Date: April 17, 1955
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Probe scheduled in hospital riot]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a state investigation of a riot of 80 black patients at Rusk State Hospital in East Texas. The patients, who claimed they were not being treated fairly, surrendered to authorities nonetheless.
Date: April 17, 1955
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 station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the trial of a Dallas hospital orderly, Simon Simpson, accused of sexually assaulting a teenaged patient.
Date: February 24, 1955
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 young girl struck by a car on a Dallas street. The girl, 7-year-old Matilda Agnes Rose Valenzuela, is not seriously injured.
Date: February 1, 1955
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: News brief -- accident]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a young girl struck by a car in Fort Worth after she ran into the street. The girl, Shari Lou Gruesen, is not seriously injured.
Date: March 24, 1955
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 car carrying two men running off the road and down a 25-foot embankment in Fort Worth. Both men received head injuries and were hospitalized.
Date: March 29, 1955
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Dallas Attorney charged in murder]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about Dallas Attorney Norman Hamilton being charged with the murder of Clarence Bethke, his ranch foreman.
Date: December 11, 1955
Duration: 3 minutes 13 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Family of five dies in Dallas tragedy]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about a Dallas ex-convict and U.S. Army veteran murdering his wife and three children before fatally shooting himself inside a drugstore.
Date: December 13, 1955
Duration: 5 minutes 29 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Blast wrecks home, kills one, hurts 2]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about a gas explosion destroying a Fort Worth home, killing a young boy and injuring his mother and sister.
Date: October 16, 1955
Duration: 1 minute 31 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Parade, ceremony open state fair]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about the opening ceremonies of the State Fair of Texas, including a motorcycle accident involving a 12-year-old boy, and the Dallas Bonehead Club.
Date: October 7, 1955
Duration: 2 minutes 53 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Sky wheel death]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about a teenage girl falling to her death from a ride at the State Fair of Texas in Dallas after it malfunctioned and fell 50 feet.
Date: October 11, 1955
Duration: 2 minutes 44 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Shivers]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about a medical examination in Dallas for Texas Governor Allan Shivers, who is presented with a clean bill of health before his return to Austin.
Date: October 26, 1955
Duration: 1 minute 10 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: One man injured in gas well fire]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about an oil well in Corsicana that burst into flames and left one injured.
Date: November 10, 1955
Duration: 1 minute 49 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Easter seal drive]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about an Easter seal drive held for the Dallas Crippled Children's Hospital.
Date: March 10, 1955
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 a traffic accident at an intersection in Dallas, resulting in minor injuries for a female passenger in one of the automobiles.
Date: February 6, 1955
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Easter boy]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about Easter Seal boy Mike Flagg helping to raise money for the Dallas Society for Crippled Children.
Date: March 6, 1955
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Dallas shooting]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a Nebraska clothing salesman shot in Dallas by his estranged wife's new partner after an altercation. Neither party involved in the shooting will talk to police.
Date: July 31, 1955
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Baby killed in car truck crash]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a collision between a car and a truck hauling gravel near Garland, killing an infant girl and injuring her young brother.
Date: May 27, 1955
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Burned kids]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about cigarette burns being found on two young children, leading to the arrest of the woman with whom they were living.
Date: June 8, 1955
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Dallas man shoots wife, self in cafe]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a Dallas ex-convict shooting his wife and then turning the gun on himself in a downtown cafe. Both survive the shooting and are taken to Parkland Memorial Hospital.
Date: April 22, 1955
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Seven hurt in school bus accident]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about six students and an assistant principal injured after a Crowley school bus collided with a truck and ran off the road down an embankment. Only two of the children are considered seriously injured.
Date: May 18, 1955
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Two die as crane touches power line]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about two construction workers killed and two more injured after the crane they were using to move a section of pipe touched a high-voltage power line.
Date: April 12, 1955
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Dallas man shoots wife, self in cafe]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about a Dallas ex-convict shooting his wife and then turning the gun on himself in a downtown cafe. Both survive the shooting and are taken to Parkland Memorial Hospital.
Date: April 22, 1955
Duration: 1 minute 32 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Negro boy drowns in Dallas pond]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about a thirteen-year-old boy drowning in a small lake east of Fair Park in Dallas.
Date: April 28, 1955
Duration: 1 minute 02 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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