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[News Script: Wade off to meet BenJack]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about Dallas district attorney Wade traveling to Mexico City to bring back BenJack Cage who was indicted for embezzling 600 thousand dollars.
Date: August 9, 1957
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Suspect admits assault on girl]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about Billy Don Jackson confessing to robbing two different people and sexually assaulting a girl.
Date: August 9, 1957
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Blinded boy]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a blind man arriving in Fort Worth after being accepted to Baylor University.
Date: August 8, 1957
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Drys stage anti beer parade]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a parade in Oak Cliff to display the community's disapproval of allowing the sale of beer and wine.
Date: August 10, 1957
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Dallas employees to get raises]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about Dallas releasing a new city budget that raises pay for city employees and reduces hours for police and firemen.
Date: August 10, 1957
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Officer held in arson case]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about Mansfield police officer, Tommy Harrell, being arrested for telling young boys to commit arson.
Date: August 10, 1957
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Absentee voting]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about record levels of absentee voting for the Oak Cliff beer election.
Date: August 10, 1957
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Famed Indian chief reburied]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the army digging up and reburying an Oklahoma Indian chief and his family from their cemetery to make room for a firing range.
Date: August 10, 1957
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Jackson charged]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about charges of rape, sodomy, and robbery by assault being filed against Billy Don Jackson.
Date: August 12, 1957
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Pete the Python]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about Pete the Python undergoing minor surgery to remove a tick from a sensory pit on his nose.
Date: August 11, 1957
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Loan collector guilty in assault]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a loan collector, William O. Virtcher, being convicted of assaulting a woman while attempting to collect money.
Date: August 9, 1957
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Hawaiians]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about members of the Chinese Chamber of Commerce of Honolulu visiting Fort Worth and Dallas while on a goodwill tour of the United States.
Date: August 8, 1957
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Carter sentencing]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about Harold Carter being convicted of sexually assaulting a woman and receiving a life sentence for the crime.
Date: August 1, 1957
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Old Buckhorn in new home]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the world's largest animal head, horn, and antler collection in a San Antonio bar, being located to Lone Star Brewery.
Date: August 2, 1957
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Reservists back from training]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the 300th Army Aviation Company of Fort Worth returning from a two-week training camp.
Date: August 3, 1957
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Accident]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a young man loosing control of his vehicle and crashing it into a street sign.
Date: August 6, 1957
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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