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[News Script: Star bash]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the Carnival of the Stars, hosted by Gordon McLendon at Cielo, near Lake Dallas in Denton County; attendees paid $100 to meet and interact with such stars and celebrities as George Hamilton, Roger Chaffee, David Scott, Alan Beane, John Drew Barrymore, Hugh Brian, Diana Steger, Bob Cummings and Judy James, all to benefit the Planned Parenthood Association.
Date: October 24, 1964
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Truck hits service station]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about Howard Lollard's service station, into which a truck carrying 47,000 pounds of maize slammed after problems with the curve in the highway; the driver received only minor injuries, but the building may need quite a bit of repair.
Date: October 15, 1964
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: School Board]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about J.T. Stephens, Fort Worth rancher, making a surprise donation of 72 acres of land for new construction at the Fort Worth School Board's meeting; the Board states that on the site will be built a new high school, football stadium, and a new elementary school, the elementary school to be named after Stephens.
Date: October 7, 1964
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Dallas fair]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the second day of the State Fair of Texas; It is declared German Day, with appropriate entertainments, as well as being Czech Day, and honors for the American Saddle Horse Breeders Futurity, the Texas Turkey Federation, and the Texas Poultry Improvement Association.
Date: October 11, 1964
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Lodge]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the visit of former Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge to Dallas to deliver a speech on south Viet Nam to the Dallas Council on World Affairs; Met at Love Field by General Phillip Bethune, Lodge spoke about his return from Europe speaking about America in Viet Nam, China's nuclear test, and the death of Herbert Hoover.
Date: October 20, 1964
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Three alarm fire]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a three-alarm fire at the Cathey Office Furniture and Supply Company in Dallas; firemen have difficulty getting to the blaze, but keep it from spreading.
Date: October 1, 1964
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Stars]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about Gordon McLendon's fundraising event for the Planned Parenthood Association of Dallas, where people can buy tickets to come and interact with stars and celebrities at his ranch on Lake Dallas; guests include Robert Cummings, John Drew Barrymore, Myrna Fahey, and Sue-Ann Langdon.
Date: October 23, 1964
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Love campaign]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about two women's campaign to stop hate and promote love by having stewardesses at Love Field pass out buttons that say "I Love" to passengers; It is hoped to grow into a major, non-political movement, and one button recipient, Walter Cronkite, said he could endorse that.
Date: October 16, 1964
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Teenage court]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a group visiting from Hot Springs, Arkansas to see how the Corporation Court in Fort Worth has implemented their teenage court and teenage jury system for young traffic offenders.
Date: October 21, 1964
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Airport meeting]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a meeting in neutral Arlington which is the first of what may become a series of meetings between officials of Dallas and Fort Worth to solve the airport controversy; the Civil Aeronautics Board will make its own decision in 6 months if the two cities cannot agree on a regional airport to serve the North Texas area.
Date: October 20, 1964
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Ambassador]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the arrival of Lord and Lady Harlech aboard their twin-jet De-Haviland-125; Lord Harlech, British Ambassador to the United States, spoke at the Dallas Council on World Affairs, with comments on The Beatles, imports and exports, and Britain's shrinking empire.
Date: October 6, 1964
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Air show]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the annual airshow at the Pylon Airport in Arlington; the day included light-plane pilots making mock bombing runs, and two 14-year old pilots who need to sit on extra cushions to be able to reach the controls.
Date: October 18, 1964
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Accidental shooting]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about two accidental deaths: 1) 20 year old Carrol Clyde Vincent who was shot in the head during a squirrel hunting trip along the Trinity River Bottoms in Fort Worth; and 2) 13 year old John Boggan, who was killed in Dallas when the sports car he was riding in overturned.
Date: October 10, 1964
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Absentee vote]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about preparations for absentee voting in Fort Worth, with record turnouts expected.
Date: October 14, 1964
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Admiral]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about Vice-Admiral Robert J. Stroh, guest speaker at Navy Day, to members of the Navy League; Deputy Director of the Joint Strategic Target Planning Staff, Admiral Stroh speaks of the work of the group, selecting targets for nuclear counter-strikes should the need ever occur.
Date: October 30, 1964
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Airmen sentenced]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the trial of airmen William J. O'Brien and Randall McFarline of the 824th Supply Squadron at Carswell; for stealing a car; burglarizing a service station, and breaking into a hardware store, the pair are sentenced to 3 years in prison, despite requests for leniency based on prior clean records.
Date: October 26, 1964
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Armstrong]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about Judge Wright Armstrong Jr. of the Tarrant County Criminal Court refusing the Tarrant County Commissioners instructions to surrender his courtroom in the new Criminal Courts Building, and to relocate to a remodeled court in the old courthouse.
Date: October 21, 1964
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Art gallery]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a publicity stunt staged at Arlington's first full-time art gallery, operated by Jim Purtle; the three bad guys rob the place, the sheriff and his one-girl posse catch them, and the town drunk doesn't realize there is real whisky in the bottle he's given to act with.
Date: October 13, 1964
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Art showing]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about two exhibitions at the Fort Worth Art Museum: 1) the wood-block prints of Japanese artist Munakata, whose work is heavily influenced by Zen Buddhism and Shinto; and 2) portraits by recently deceased Fort Worth artist Murray Bewley, who painted many citizens of Fort Worth.
Date: October 8, 1964
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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