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[News Clip: Accident]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about 64-year-old Mrs. Henry Lowe being injured in a car-truck collision and being sent to Parkland hospital in Dallas.
Date: April 8, 1955
Duration: 58 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Aggie begins pro baseball career]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about Joe Hardgrove, star pitcher for A&M's Texas Aggies, being signed to the New York Giants.
Date: June 8, 1955
Duration: 58 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: City girl chosen Farm Bureau Queen]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about Bess Landrum winning a beauty contest and the title of queen of district four of the Texas Farm Bureau.
Date: September 8, 1955
Duration: 1 minute 56 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Collision of Trucks]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about a Dallas accident that sent Richard R. Pennington to the hospital.
Date: September 8, 1955
Duration: 54 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Dallas Negro murder]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about Lula McFuller, beaten to death in her home in front of her 5 children.
Date: March 8, 1955
Duration: 49 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Dallas vice trial of lawyer postponed]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about the trial of a former lawyer accused of running a "bawdy house" in Dallas being postponed due to his attorneys trying to get the charges dismissed.
Date: June 8, 1955
Duration: 1 minute 01 second
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Damage light in explosion at café]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about a gas explosion at Youngblood restaurant in Oak Cliff, set off by a light switch.
Date: November 8, 1955
Duration: 40 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Estep Hearing]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about the trial of William and Dora Estep.
Date: April 8, 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: Funeral Thursday for Judge McCraw]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about upcoming funeral services for Dallas District Judge William McCraw, dead of a heart attack at the age of 59.
Date: November 8, 1955
Duration: 1 minute 35 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Grasshoppers]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about Dallas county farmers combating a plague of grasshoppers.
Date: July 8, 1955
Duration: 1 minute 09 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Hospital]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about the dedication of the Charles A. Sammons Irradiation Center at Baylor Hospital in Dallas.
Date: September 8, 1955
Duration: 1 minute 01 second
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Judge upholds city ban against unions]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about a Dallas district judge ruling in favor of the city's ban against employees unionizing.
Date: December 8, 1955
Duration: 1 minute 50 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Marines]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about Dallas' Marine reserves preparing for a "summer camp" in California.
Date: July 8, 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: Mrs. Lee to appeal murder sentence]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about Elsie Lee requesting a new trial after being convicted of murdering her husband, Marcellus Lee.
Date: April 8, 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: Mystery of missing mural is revealed]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about the new mural in the Dallas public library being dismantled and removed.
Date: July 8, 1955
Duration: 21 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: News briefs - 1 - airport arrivals]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about several high-profile arrivals to Love Field in Dallas: Dr. Mahamoud Fawzi, the foreign minister of Egypt; and star of the film Forbidden Planet, Walter Pidgeon.
Date: July 8, 1955
Duration: 57 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Oden]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about Tulsa officials picking up a burglary suspect, Thomas Jefferson Oden, from Dallas, who turned himself in there.
Date: November 8, 1955
Duration: 45 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Politics charged in Irving fuss]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about the former superintendent of the Irving school district blaming a political conspiracy for his termination.
Date: March 8, 1955
Duration: 2 minutes 46 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Shooting]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about a robbery at a Dallas tavern. The suspect held a waitress at gunpoint, then shot and kidnapped her when she failed to take his threat seriously. Police quickly apprehend the robber, Howard Ray Crouch of Oak Cliff.
Date: July 8, 1955
Duration: 2 minutes 05 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Southwest conference]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about a meeting of the Southwest Conference football association in Dallas.
Date: December 8, 1955
Duration: 45 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Students receive civil defense tags]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about official identification tags issued to Garland schoolchildren as part of a civil defense initiative.
Date: December 8, 1955
Duration: 1 minute 16 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Toll road]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about the City of Dallas announcing the start of construction on a new toll road to Waco, the Sam Houston Turnpike.
Date: February 8, 1955
Duration: 1 minute 39 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Train]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about 16 train cars being derailed at the southwest outskirts of Richardson near Dallas.
Date: March 8, 1955
Duration: 1 minute 05 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: YWCA leader]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about a portrait unveiled at the Dallas YWCA building in honor of founder Mrs. John M. Hanna.
Date: February 8, 1955
Duration: 58 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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