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[News Script: Casey Stengel]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about New York Yankees baseball manager Casey Stengel visiting Texas to attend the Texas-Oklahoma football game.
Date: October 9, 1953
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: POWs]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about Texas Prisoners of War arriving home.
Date: August 26, 1953
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Fair art show]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a preview of the State Fair of Texas exhibitions at the Dallas Museum of Fine Arts.
Date: October 9, 1953
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Driverless truck]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a truck rolling down Jacksboro Highway after Bob Crosley failed to engage the brake.
Date: August 26, 1953
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Shivers tangles with FBI chief]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a dispute between Texas Governor Allan Shivers and FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover over the state or federal jurisdiction of civil liberties investigations in Texas.
Date: August 26, 1953
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Oil well on college campus]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about Lamar State College of Technology in Beaumont giving up their baseball field to Stanolind oil company for drilling.
Date: July 2, 1953
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Largest sign is lighted by mayor]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about Ford Motor Company lighting the largest neon sign in the Southwest, in Dallas, for their 50th anniversary.
Date: June 17, 1953
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Blaze destroys clothing factory]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a three-alarm fire at a Dallas garment manufacturing company. Seven employees escaped without injury.
Date: July 15, 1953
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: TCU building]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about completion of a new religious studies building at Texas Christian University.
Date: June 17, 1953
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Amputee is blood donor]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a San Antonio blood drive organized by Korean War veteran and quadruple amputee Werner Reininger, who says he is determined to pay back his debt in blood donations to the U.S. Armed Forces for saving his life.
Date: July 16, 1953
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Burglary suspect faces dope charge]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about ex-convict Harris Peyton arrested in Dallas for burglarizing a pharmacy after a police officer remembered his face.
Date: July 10, 1953
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 automobile colliding with a commercial truck loaded with sand at a Dallas intersection. Both drivers escaped injury in the accident.
Date: June 25, 1953
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: News brief (Helicopters)]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the Western Hills motel in Fort Worth, utilizing their heliport and gaining a reputation for it, as "The Western Hills Helicopter Motel."
Date: July 3, 1953
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Driver loses cab]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about U. R. Benton, a cab driver who claimed to have been robbed by Ray Bilbo and Melvin Young, resulting in the evacuation of his cab.
Date: October 23, 1953
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Explosion wrecks fireworks plant]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about an explosion at a Fort Worth fireworks plant destroying several buildings and seriously injuring one employee.
Date: June 19, 1953
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Trained seal act]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about two trained seals, Jimmy and Guin, performing at the Fair Park Midway in Dallas.
Date: June 25, 1953
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Bank robbery]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a mental hospital escapee captured shortly after attempting to rob a Dallas bank.
Date: June 18, 1953
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Tidelands pen goes to museum]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the pen used by President Eisenhower to sign the Texas tidelands bill being obtained by the Texas Memorial Museum in Austin.
Date: July 7, 1953
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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