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[News Script: Abilene takes state grid crown]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the football game for the state championship between Abilene High School and Stephen F. Austin High School.
Date: December 19, 1954
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Ledge rescue]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a foiled suicide attempt by a Houston postal worker on the ledge of a Dallas hotel, along with a plane crash at a boat company in Grand Prairie that killed two workers.
Date: December 31, 1954
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Nixon defends Wilson dog story]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about Vice President Richard Nixon arriving in Houston to address a druggists convention and commenting on recent remarks made by Secretary of Defense Wilson.
Date: October 14, 1954
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Mustangs trample Rice Owls 20-6]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a college football game in Houston between the Rice University Owls and the Southern Methodist University Mustangs. The Mustangs win 20-6.
Date: October 17, 1954
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: News Briefs - Firebug]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the arrest of a mentally ill boy named John Maurice Jordan who admits to setting 17 fires in Houston.
Date: January 27, 1954
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Owls trump Frogs to climb in race]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about a basketball game between the Rice Owls and TCU Frogs. The Owls won the game with 69 points.
Date: January 13, 1954
Duration: 1 minute 27 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: News briefs Poil Mesta]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about the former United States Minister to Luxembourg, Perle Mesta, visiting Houston.
Date: January 17, 1954
Duration: 33 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Radar]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about the installation of a radar dome atop the Federal Office Building in Houston for weather tracking and civil defense.
Date: January 19, 1954
Duration: 50 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Dog dragnet in Houston]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about a crackdown on stray dogs in Houston for rabies control purposes.
Date: February 18, 1954
Duration: 1 minute 34 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Prison fugitives are recaptured]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about the recapture of 10 convicts escaped from Harlem Prison Farm near Sugar Land.
Date: March 24, 1954
Duration: 1 minute 13 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: 49 charged in dope crackdown]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about a roundup of dope peddlers by undercover cops in Houston.
Date: April 9, 1954
Duration: 1 minute 53 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Cats defeated in delayed opener]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about the season opener for the 1954 Texas League Campaign of the Fort Worth Cats at Buff Stadium in Houston.
Date: April 11, 1954
Duration: 1 minute 37 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Senator Joe]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about Senator Joseph McCarthy visiting Houston for San Jacinto Day.
Date: April 21, 1954
Duration: 2 minutes 07 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Abilene takes state grid crown]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about the football game for the state championship between Abilene High School and Stephen F. Austin High School.
Date: December 19, 1954
Duration: 5 minutes 01 second
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Senator Joe]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about Senator Joseph McCarthy visiting Houston for San Jacinto Day.
Date: April 21, 1954
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: McCarthy makes Dallas visit]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about Senator Joseph McCarthy visiting Dallas with his wife. McCarthy was in Texas for a speaking engagement on San Jacinto Day at the San Jacinto memorial in La Porte.
Date: April 14, 1954
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: School probe at Houston assailed]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a meeting of the Houston School Board and the National Education Association investigating the district for declining to renew the contract of an administrator after he was accused of communist leanings.
Date: January 31, 1954
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Mona]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a stop in Dallas by actress Mona Freeman en route to Houston to celebrate Mardi Gras. Also headed to Houston are actor Robert Stack and New York Yankees Outfielder Irv Noren.
Date: February 1, 1954
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Houstonians take cruise]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the arrival of a Caribbean-bound French luxury cruise liner in Houston, the first cruise ship to dock there in several years.
Date: January 10, 1954
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Radar]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the installation of a radar dome atop the Federal Office Building in Houston for weather tracking and civil defense.
Date: January 19, 1954
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Cats defeated in delayed opener]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the season opener for the 1954 Texas League Campaign of the Fort Worth Cats at Buff Stadium in Houston.
Date: April 11, 1954
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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