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[Vehicles Stuck in Flood Water]

Description: Photograph of three commercial vehicles stuck in the flood waters from Detroit's worst flood in 1957. In the image the bus driver is sticking his body out the driver window, another man sits on top his truck's cabin, while the other crouches on top the container of his truck. More vehicles can be seen being held back by a police car from the rising waters.
Date: July 22, 1957
Creator: Clark, Joe
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[APD Reserve Officers, 1957, view 1]

Description: Photograph of the 1957 APD Reserve Officers. All the men but one on the back row are dressed in a uniform. The group is arranged in two rows with one row standing and one row squatting. Some of the men's names are unknown. Known names are: Jack Ferguson, Emmitt Moore, Jesse Holley, B.J. Hlavaty, Jim Brown, B.L. Yeary, Dick Coffee, G.D. Ned Jr., Leo Mettos, Nat M. Rider, Jerry Tucker, Clayton Jordon and Bobby Wiggins. (Reserve Officers are an auxiliary police force composed of volunteers who ser… more
Date: 1957
Partner: Arlington Public Library

[APD Reserve Officers, 1957, view 2]

Description: Photograph of the 1957 APD Reserve Officers. All the men but one on the back row are dressed in a uniform. The group is arranged in two rows with one row standing and one row squatting. Some of the men's names are unknown. Known names are: Jack Ferguson, Emmitt Moore, Jesse Holley, B.J. Hlavaty, Jim Brown, B.L. Yeary, Dick Coffee, G.D. Ned Jr., Leo Mettos, Nat M. Rider, Jerry Tucker, Clayton Jordon and Bobby Wiggins. (Reserve Officers are an auxiliary police force composed of volunteers who ser… more
Date: 1957
Partner: Arlington Public Library

[News Script: Killers]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about Fort Worth police seeking an extradition for two men being held in a Tijuana jail who were also suspected of murdering a Fort Worth man during a robbery.
Date: January 9, 1957
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Grand jury probes shooting]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the Dallas County Grand Jury investigating a point-blank shootout that left a railroad special agent dead.
Date: January 14, 1957
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Utility pole ends Dallas speed chase]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a car chase between Dallas police and a woman who was involved with two hit-and-run accidents ending with the woman's car crashing into a utility pole.
Date: January 30, 1957
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Detectives leave to quiz suspects]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about police captain O. R. Brown and detective T. Walls leaving for Tijuana, Mexico to question two youths charged with murder.
Date: January 11, 1957
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Deputy chiefs]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about police captains Karl Howard and W. T. McWhorter getting top marks in their examinations for positions as deputy chiefs of the Fort Worth Police Department.
Date: January 22, 1957
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Dope raids]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about mass raids on narcotics traffickers by police forces across Texas. The story focuses on drug raids in Fort Worth and Dallas.
Date: February 24, 1957
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Pajama clad driver jailed after chase]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a 3-time convict crashing his car into two other cars before coming to a stop a service station and being arrested wearing only his pajamas and a jacket.
Date: January 8, 1957
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Holdup]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a gunman robbing Mr. and Mrs. Wesley Taylor, the owners of the Meadowbrook drug store in Fort Worth.
Date: January 29, 1957
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Burglars hit church]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the Hemphill Presbyterian church in Fort Worth being burglarized.
Date: January 21, 1957
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Swindler]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about swindler James Glenn Hutson putting on false identities in towns across the country in order to wrongfully claim money.
Date: January 13, 1957
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Hijacking]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about Dallas escaped convict James Skinner robbing a cafeteria in the city. The fugitive is still at large.
Date: February 17, 1957
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Gambler slain]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about Fort Worth gambler Sid Foley's body being found on the side of a road in Lake Worth.
Date: February 2, 1957
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Narcotics]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the Fort Worth Police Department organizing a crackdown on narcotics crimes, with raids on several suspected houses.
Date: February 23, 1957
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Beating]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about Fort Worth police questioning a man for allegedly beating his wife.
Date: February 16, 1957
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Girls]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about two teenage girls being arrested for robbing three service stations.
Date: January 15, 1957
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Furs]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about children finding expensive furs stolen from Mr. and Mrs. David Zips that helped police link the robbery to the late Sid Foley.
Date: February 10, 1957
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Dallas flood (Murphy)]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a communities around the Dallas - Fort Worth area evacuating or having to be rescued from flood waters.
Date: April 26, 1957
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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