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[News Script: News briefs; Jo Dodson]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the homecoming of Miss Jo Dodson in Cleburne. Dodson came in fifth place at the Miss United States contest.
Date: July 25, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Script
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Blast]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about an explosion at a Fort Worth parking garage. Three people were injured.
Date: July 1, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Script
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Dope Peddlers Hit in Mass Roundup]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the arrest of over one-hundred people suspected of dealing marijuana. It is the largest mass arrest of narcotics violators in the history of the city.
Date: July 22, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Script
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Abandoned children claimed by mother]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about two children who were left at a movie by their mother, who promised to return. When she did not return, the children were taken to the Lena Pope home, where their mother picked them up the next morning.
Date: July 10, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Script
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Octopus]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a new octopus at the Fort Worth Aquarium named Ormsby the Second.
Date: July 27, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Script
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Highway post office shown at convention]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a mobile post office being shown at the National Postal Transportation Association convention. The mobile post office is a converted bus, where clerks sort mail as it is being delivered.
Date: July 18, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Script
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Drownings]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the drownings of two fifteen-year-old boys from Fort Worth. James Don Lucky drowned at Casino Beach on Lake Worth, and Ernest Campbell Junior drowned in Lake Como.
Date: July 2, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Script
Location: 32.734197 -97.397362
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Wedding]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the wedding of Bobby Jean Roberts, a Dallas waitress, and Horace C. Buell, a deaf man. They were planning for a church wedding, but were married at Baylor hospital after the groom suffered from a broken ankle.
Date: July 22, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Script
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: News briefs; Jet Tanks; Fire; Westover Hills]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering three news stories. The first story is about two tanks that fell from a military jet plane into the yards of Dallas homeowners. Next is a story about a fire that started in a Fort Worth garage, causing no injuries. The final story is about the impending expansion of Fort Worth suburb Westover Hills. New homes will be built on newly acquired land.
Date: July 13, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Script
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Parade]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the fifth annual Fourth of July celebration and parade in the Lake Como neighborhood of Fort Worth.
Date: July 4, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Script
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Train]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about Jack Walker, a grader operator in Haltom City, who was killed at a railroad crossing. The grader may have been too loud for Walker to hear the train whistle.
Date: July 23, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Script
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Alligator escapes, spoils VFW gesture]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about an alligator that was meant to be a gift from J. T. Lindenberg of the Dallas chapter of Veterans of Foreign Wars. The alligator was meant to be donated to the James R. Record Aquarium in Fort Worth, but it fell out of the car in which it was being transported and was hit by another vehicle.
Date: July 15, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Script
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Delay]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about I. R. Conner and his charges for swindling an elderly Missouri woman for a large sum of money in a phony medical scheme. He has won, for the time being, his desire to prevent his extradition to Missouri to face those charges.
Date: July 12, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Script
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Bigamist's wives become friends]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about Harold Thetford, who left his first wife and later married another woman. The first wife, Bobbie Mae, found out that her husband had married again and called the new wife, Ima Hattie. Both women became friends.
Date: July 12, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Script
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Airport]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about severe wind damage in Dallas and Tarrant Counties. The White Rock Airport in Dallas County suffered at least five-thousand dollars in damage. In Rendon, property belonging to Floyd Clowdus is destroyed.
Date: July 24, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Script
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Hair Style]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about two of Europe's master hair stylists performing a demonstration for American beauticians.
Date: July 1, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Script
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Peters say law to end his career]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a Louisiana bill which bans interracial sports. The bill may mean that Shreveport sports will be moved out of the Texas league.
Date: July 16, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Script
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Prank]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a prank played by the fifteen-year-old son of Mrs. Willis Murphy. A dummy U.S.A.F. detonator was planted for police to find.
Date: July 26, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Script
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Ahlberg]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about Lennert Ahlberg returning to Fort Worth. He is one of the survivors of the collision between the liners Stockholm and Andrea Doria.
Date: July 29, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Script
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Old Folks Wedding]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a widow and widower getting married. The groom is S. E. Harris and the bride is Margaret A. Martin.
Date: July 1, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Script
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Hijacker]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about Westbrook Johnny Jack Beaty, a Fort Worth soda-jerk. He is suspect in three robberies.
Date: July 15, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Script
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Golf]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the annual Jaycee Golf Tournament in Fort Worth. Bob Jones and Bill Crawford tie.
Date: July 6, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Script
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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