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[News Script: Robberies]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about Benjamin Henry Pruitt, a student at Polytechnic High School, admitting to three armed robberies. Pruitt was free on bond, after his five-year prison sentence for murder was overturned.
Date: October 31, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Waples-Platter Hijacking]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a forty-year-old man robbing five-hundred dollars from the Waples-Platter wholesale company. Arial Smith and Dillard Ames recount the events.
Date: October 31, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Curtis Injury Minor]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about Chuck Curtis, the Quarterback for the TCU Horned Frogs. He suffered a minor kidney injury, but is expected to play in the upcoming game against Baylor.
Date: October 31, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: City Council]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a Dallas City Council meeting, where the sale of six-and-a-half-million dollars worth of bonds is approved. The bonds are for improvement to Love Field, including the addition of a new terminal. The Fort Worth City Council meets to discuss issues on the city's water supply. The council approves of a plan which would create two reservoirs near Corsicana.
Date: October 31, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Old employee]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about ninety-three-year-old George W. Parker, Fort Worth's Federal District Court Clerk. He ends his sixty-one year career with the final official act of logging in a district court suit. Parker is retiring due to a new federal law, which sets the retirement age at seventy.
Date: October 31, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Murder Trial]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the murder trial of Joe Ed Tissier. He is accused of the mistake killing of a Cleburne auto dealer, Charley Reynolds.
Date: October 31, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: TEMCO Ground Breaking]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a groundbreaking ceremony at TEMCO's Garland plant. Robert McCulloch announces that a new engineering center will be built.
Date: October 31, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: B-58]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about news cameramen and other onlookers gathering at the Convair plant in Fort Worth. They hope to see the first flight of the B-58 bomber.
Date: October 31, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Veteran]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about retiring veteran U.S. Marshal Guy Cross' surprise farewell party in Fort Worth.
Date: October 31, 1958
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Halloween party]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a Halloween party that took place at John Peter Smith hospital for the children in there.
Date: October 31, 1959
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Oswald]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about R. L. Oswald, brother of Lee Harvey Oswald, reacting to the news of his brother renouncing his American citizenship in Moscow.
Date: October 31, 1959
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Sunset smashes Forest 34 to 20]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a high school football championship game in Dallas between the Forest High Lions and the Sunset High Bisons. The Bisons win the game, 34-20.
Date: October 31, 1954
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Hatters (mad)]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about three of Europe's most famous hat designers showcasing their designs in Dallas.
Date: October 31, 1954
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Senator guest at beef week supper]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the Texas Beef Council launching its second annual Beef Week, a promotional campaign designed to increase beef sales across the state of Texas.
Date: October 31, 1955
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Video tape machine]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the first color videotape recorder in Texas being installed in WBAP-TV's control room.
Date: October 31, 1959
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Fatalities]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about four victims who were taken to the hospital due to a car crash. Two of them are dead on arrival, one is critically hurt, and the last is in fair condition.
Date: October 31, 1959
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Dallas Halloween]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about Halloween activities that are going on in Dallas.
Date: October 31, 1959
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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