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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.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Explosives]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about two boxes of dynamite found in Singing Hills. Police blow up the dynamite in a quarry.
Date: October 7, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Hearing postponed on medical charges]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about I. R. Conner, who is fighting demands of Leonard Davis, sheriff of Osage County, Missouri, that Conner return to the state to face charges of swindling. The state alleges that Conner swindled an elderly woman out of one-thousand-and-three-hundred dollars by professing to know a cure for cataracts.
Date: July 11, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Trailer yields no clues to ex-cons]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about police searching for Edward Eugene Townley, Betty Jo Townley, and Wilbur Jay Hunt. A gang member and ex-convict, Townley bought a trailer on credit, but doesn't seem to have lived there for nearly a month.
Date: July 12, 1956
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 the robbery of a service station in Richland Hills. Two ex-convicts, John Joseph Smith and Andrew Jackson Martin are in custody.
Date: July 26, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Coe]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the arrest of Dallas County convict Lonnie Coe after he escaped from jail and fled to Fort Worth.
Date: June 7, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Suspect trapped by letter: Loot found]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the arrest of Garvey Goldman Corbin, a Fort Worth man suspected to be a member of a gang of thieves in the city. Nine truckloads of stolen goods are recovered after Corbin's arrest.
Date: June 3, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Deceptograph]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about Tarrant County sheriffs testing a new polygraph lie detector machine, known as the "Detectograph."
Date: May 14, 1956
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 Cleburne car dealer shot to death outside a tavern. Police believe the victim, Charley Monroe Reynolds, was fatally struck by a bullet meant for the tavern's owner, Bill Anderson. Several suspects are questioned regarding the murder, but the investigation is still open.
Date: May 15, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Burleson man loses third of business]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a Burleson feed store owner losing a portion of his building after Johnson County officials route the path of a new highway interchange through his property.
Date: May 29, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Binford]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about funeral services for Dallas Chief Sheriff's Deputy Bill Binford.
Date: May 14, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: County road gang]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a second attempt at using Tarrant County prisoners as laborers for road work.
Date: March 19, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Binford]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV television station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story about funeral services for Dallas Chief Sheriff's Deputy Bill Binford.
Date: May 14, 1956
Duration: 55 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
captions transcript

[News Clip: Jug of narcotics found by hunter]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV television station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story about a gallon-sized jug stuffed with narcotics being found near Grapevine by a farmer who was hunting squirrels.
Date: May 18, 1956
Duration: 45 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
captions transcript

[News Clip: Bank Robbery Being Filmed for TV Show]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV television station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story about a robbery being acted out at Justin State Bank for the television show "The Big Story."
Date: February 16, 1956
Duration: 1 minute 16 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
captions transcript

[News Clip: Marijuana]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about a Tarrant county sheriff finding a hidden supply of marijuana valued at roughly 35-hundred dollars.
Date: March 27, 1956
Duration: 52 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
captions transcript

[News Clip: Confessed Murdered to Face Grand Jury]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about confessed killer Henry C. Koehn. He awaits grand jury action on charges of murder and assault to murder of a Negro farmer.
Date: December 6, 1956
Duration: 1 minute 13 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Robbery]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the robbery of a service station in Richland Hills. Two ex-convicts, John Joseph Smith and Andrew Jackson Martin are in custody.
Date: July 26, 1956, 10:00 p.m.
Duration: 1 minute 21 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Drowning]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the death of Emmett C. Wylie. He drowned in a stock tank near Dallas.
Date: October 14, 1956
Duration: 46 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
captions transcript

[News Clip: Explosives]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about two boxes of dynamite found in Singing Hills. Police blow up the dynamite in a quarry.
Date: October 7, 1956, 10:00 p.m.
Duration: 58 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
captions transcript

[News Clip: Hearing postponed on medical charges]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about I. R. Conner, who is fighting demands of Leonard Davis, sheriff of Osage County, Missouri, that Conner return to the state to face charges of swindling. The state alleges that Conner swindled an elderly woman out of one-thousand-and-three-hundred dollars by professing to know a cure for cataracts.
Date: July 11, 1956
Duration: 50 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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