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[News Script: Steelman]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about former presidential aide John Steelman addressing the Dallas Kiwanis Club.
Date: May 1, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Goldwater]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about United States Senator Barry Goldwater speaking at a fundraising dinner that will launch the campaign to re-elect President Dwight D. Eisenhower.
Date: May 15, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: SWC admits Texas Tech]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about Texas Tech University being admitted to the Southwest Conference after 33 years of deliberation.
Date: May 13, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: O'Daniel opens race for governor]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about campaign efforts across North Texas by former governor and U.S. Senator W. Lee O'Daniel, who is again running for governor of the state.
Date: May 13, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Drowning]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the search and recovery of the body of Randall Lord, a TCU student who drowned in Benbrook Lake.
Date: May 25, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Florence finally receives award]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a Dallas Press Club award presented late to Republic National Bank President Fred Florence, who missed the original ceremony.
Date: May 10, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Weather]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about flooding and damage from storms in central Texas.
Date: May 1, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Murder]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about murder charges being filed against two Fort Worth men after the shooting death of a Cleburne man outside a tavern.
Date: May 16, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Stevenson has high praise for Johnson]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about Adlai Stevenson, the Democratic presidential nominee in 1952, stopping by Fort Worth on his way to Florida for a Democratic primary contest.
Date: May 18, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Twirlers vie for TCU band posts]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about fierce competition at Texas Christian University over three open positions on the school's drum majorette team.
Date: May 6, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: New blast fails to dislodge log jam]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a jam of logs created in the Trinity River near Dallas after several days of heavy rain. City officials attempt to dislodge the jam with dynamite and a winch truck, but neither approach succeeds at clearing the obstruction.
Date: May 3, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Cow]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about an escaped cow captured by a Dallas city employee after local police failed to restrain the animal.
Date: May 7, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: News Briefs - Eddie]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about singer Eddie Fisher stopping in Dallas en route to Hollywood from Memphis.
Date: May 14, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Babb]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a verdict in the trial of Bobby Joe Babb, a Dallas man accused of blinding a police officer after striking him in the face with handcuffs during his arrest. Babb is found guilty and sentenced to five years in prison.
Date: May 30, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Award]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about an award presented to the Texas and Pacific Railway company by a religious action group.
Date: May 16, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Police seek gunman after girl wounded]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a teenage girl from Fort Worth being wounded by a seemingly random shotgun blast to her home. Police were seeking out the perpetrators of the shooting.
Date: May 20, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Murray's GD girls]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the annual Miss Dallas beauty contest at the Statler-Hilton Hotel.
Date: May 7, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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