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[News Script: Jet plane into boat works]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, looking back at the top local news stories of the past year.
Date: December 31, 1954
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Insurance]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, revisiting the year's major local news stories, including a scandal over lax enforcement of insurance law in the state, along with the escape and recapture of a python at Fort Worth's Forest Park Zoo.
Date: December 31, 1954
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Georgia Tech]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about Georgia Tech going to the Cotton Bowl.
Date: December 30, 1954
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Reservist injured in plane crash]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the crash of an Air National Guard training plane at Hensley Field in Grand Prairie after the aircraft experienced engine trouble on takeoff. One of the two men in the plane is slightly injured after the plane struck the ground.
Date: December 1, 1954
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Gubernatorial race - flood waters]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering two news stories about Governor Allan Shivers winning re-election against Ralph Yarborough, and flooding Laredo and Neuvo Laredo.
Date: December 31, 1954
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Batchelor]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about Claude Batchelor returning to Texas from Korea and Thurman Priest slaying his niece.
Date: December 31, 1954
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Harvesters]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about Harvest appliance dealers leaving for a vacation in the Bahamas.
Date: December 1, 1954
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Shooting]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a burglar shot and killed by police officers after he was found inside a building during a robbery.
Date: December 12, 1954
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Desegregation]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the effects of the Supreme Court decision banning segregation in public schools.
Date: December 31, 1954
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Review of 1954]

Description: List from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, listing stories included on the 1954 review reel. Items include Duval politics, Gubernatorial race, Rio Grande flood, Drought in Texas, Hagler case, Desegregation, Charges re insurance laws, Pete the Python, Claude Batchelor, Priest case, Viola Brown poisoned, Jones Bros. extortion plot, Houston ledge rescue, F-80 crashes into boat work, Color telecast, Off-the-bench tackle, Two lakes open to fishers, Polio vaccine administered.
Date: December 31, 1954
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Extortion plot]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the FBI capturing James Hollis Jones, a Dallas man later convicted of extorting prominent Jewish families in the city with threatening letters demanding money. Jones was sentenced to 20 years in prison.
Date: December 31, 1954
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Carswell Christmas party]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about 50 underprivileged children who are treated to a Christmas party, complete with toys, candy, and paint books, by members of the Ninth Bomb squadron of the 7th Bomb Wing at Carswell Air Force Base.
Date: December 21, 1954
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Location: 32.774029 -97.432727
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Fire]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about an apartment fire in Fort Worth that displaced four familes.
Date: December 22, 1954
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Salvation Army]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the Dallas Salvation Army's efforts to raise charitable donations in the city during the Christmas season.
Date: December 21, 1954
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Detective ends long tour of duty]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a retirement party for veteran Dallas Police Lieutenant Sidney A. Andersen.
Date: December 22, 1954
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Goodfellows set for deliveries]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the Fort Worth Star-Telegram Goodfellows creating Christmas bundles for needy families.
Date: December 21, 1954
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Mayors extend holiday greetings]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about Christmas messages to the people of Dallas and Fort Worth delivered by the mayors of each city.
Date: December 24, 1954
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Jaycees launch poll tax drive]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the Jaycees organization hosting a drive in Dallas to sell poll tax receipts.
Date: December 29, 1954
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Assault report hoax, say girls]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about policemen responding to a reported rape that turned out to be a hoax created by the two supposed victims.
Date: December 16, 1954
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Robbery]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a robbery at a Seven-Eleven store in Dallas.
Date: December 17, 1954
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Boy is back: suspect held]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a missing boy in the Village Creek region of Fort Worth, feared kidnapped by a neighbor, returning to his family under mysterious circumstances.
Date: December 17, 1954
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Pageant]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a Christmas pageant organized by airmen at Wolters Air Force Base in Mineral Wells.
Date: December 16, 1954
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Judge Atwell]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the retirement of Dallas federal judge William Hawley Atwell.
Date: December 16, 1954
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Private display of fireworks]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about Fort Worth investigators seizing a truckload of contraband fireworks and destroying them by dumping them into the city incinerator.
Date: December 23, 1954
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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