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[News Clip: Captain Eddie]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a World War I ace, Captain Eddie Rickenbacker, making a speech in Fort Worth.
Date: February 15, 1953
Duration: 2 minutes 59 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Open house at USPHS hospital]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about an open house at the U. S. Public Health Service Hospital in Fort Worth in observance of National Hospital Day.
Date: May 15, 1953
Duration: 2 minutes 18 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Cops of the Month News Brief]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about Officers R. L. Smith and C. A. Dennis being cited for their rescue of three people from an auto wreck.
Date: October 15, 1953
Duration: 49 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Monkey Business]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about a baby monkey at the Fort Worth Zoo being potentially abandoned by his mother and adopted, or kidnapped, by another monkey.
Date: April 15, 1953
Duration: 1 minute 09 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Snakes]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about Fort Worth Children's Museum employee Mearl Carson successfully hatching a large amount of newborn snakes in captivity in order to supply a reptile exhibit at the museum.
Date: July 15, 1953
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Driver charged in fatal crash]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering two news stories. The first story is about a Burleson farmer charged with murder in a car accident caused by his driving while intoxicated that killed a Cleburne man. The second story is about a construction worker in Dallas killed after the bridge he was driving across in a tractor suddenly collapsed.
Date: July 15, 1953
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Rainmaker gets council goahead]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the Forth Worth city council approving Jack Corn's attempt to create rain by flying above rain-bearing clouds and dropping silver iodine into them.
Date: July 15, 1953
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
open access

[News Script: Cops of the month news brief]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about Officers R. L. Smith and C. A. Dennis being cited for their rescue of three people from an auto wreck.
Date: October 15, 1953
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
open access

[News Script: Open house at USPHS hospital]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about an open house at the U. S. Public Health Service Hospital in Fort Worth in observance of National Hospital Day.
Date: May 15, 1953
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
open access

[News Script: Deputy trial]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the trial of former Tarrant County Deputy Sheriff Vernon Johnson, accused of assaulting a man after shooting him allegedly without provocation.
Date: October 15, 1953
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
open access

[News Script: News brief -- elks]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a visit to the Fort Worth chapter of the Elks organization by its leader, Earl E. James of Oklahoma City.
Date: October 15, 1953
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: TCU sweetheart]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a beauty pageant for female students at Texas Christian University.
Date: May 15, 1953
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Fire]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the Texas Christian University field house being completely destroyed by fire.
Date: December 15, 1953
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Central school]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about Central Airlines, headquartered in Fort Worth, electing to use female flight attendants rather than males aboard its planes.
Date: December 15, 1953
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Children's Zoo]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about construction on the Children's Fairyland Zoo in Forest Park.
Date: April 15, 1953
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Attempted robbery]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about an attempted robbery at a Fort Worth supermarket, with the masked gunman injuring several people before escaping.
Date: March 15, 1953
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
open access

[News Script: Jaycees announce winner of award]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the Fort Worth Jaycee's annual awards banquet where John S. Justin Junior was named Fort Worth's Outstanding Young Man of 1952.
Date: January 15, 1953
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Engineer chief sees floodway]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about Army Corps of Engineers Chief Major General Samuel D. Sturgis, Jr., inspecting flood control projects in the Dallas-Fort Worth region.
Date: April 15, 1953
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
open access

[News Script: Monkey business]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a baby monkey at the Fort Worth Zoo being potentially abandoned by his mother and adopted, or kidnapped, by another monkey.
Date: April 15, 1953
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
open access

[News Script: Captain Eddie]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a World War I ace, Captain Eddie Rickenbacker, making a speech in Fort Worth.
Date: February 15, 1953
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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