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[News Script: Grand Jury Probes Fort Worth voting]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the continued canvassing of voting machines used in the runoff balloting for Ralph Yarborough and Senator Daniel. Grand Jury Foreman Buddy Thompson signs subpoenas for more than a dozen witnesses as the jury starts its probe of irregularities in box 120.
Date: August 29, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Council]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about dissatisfaction with some phases of the Fort Worth, Texas, city budget of almost 22-and-a-half million dollars, the highest budget in Fort Worth history at that time.
Date: August 29, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Dummy Hanging at Mansfield Probed]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the hanging of a red paint splattered, straw-stuffed dummy in effigy of an African American man in Mansfield, Texas, in response to the federal desegregation order demanding Mansfield admit thirteen African American students to its high school.
Date: August 29, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: The Week in Review]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering the weekly news report about a robbery, multiple shootings, a warehouse explosion, a train accident, and a house fire.
Date: December 29, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Fire Death]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a fire in the Mansfield home of Johnny M. Donnelly. He and two dogs were killed.
Date: November 29, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Texas Voters Hear Visiting Officials]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about Al Gore visiting Dallas en route to Lufkin. He says the H-bomb controversy is helping the Democratic cause, and that public awareness of the issue will lead them to support presidential nominee Stevenson. Former Oklahoma Governor Roy Turner and Oklahoma Senator Monroney also visit Fort Worth.
Date: October 29, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Burglars]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about two robbers, Eddie Lee Shelton and Leonard Kubick. They were captured by Fort Worth police as they robbed a drugstore.
Date: October 29, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Ahlberg]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about Lennert Ahlberg returning to Fort Worth. He is one of the survivors of the collision between the liners Stockholm and Andrea Doria.
Date: July 29, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Fire]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a fire at Mathes Cooling and Heating in Fort Worth. Flames destroy the two-story warehouse.
Date: July 29, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Wounded Policeman Sees Shrine Circus]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about Eddie Killiher, a policeman who was shot and ran over by a motorist. He leaves the hospital for the first time to visit the Shrine Circus.
Date: November 29, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Carswell Gate Crasher Captured]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the arrest of Ronnie Gunter. He crashed his car into a gate at Carswell Air Force Base, then eluded police for several hours.
Date: November 29, 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 a trial for Jo Ed Tissier, who is accused of murdering Charles Reynolds, a used car dealer. Tissier is believed to have been partners in crime with Ovie J. Steward.
Date: October 29, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Elvis Presley, Actor]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the release of the Elvis Presley film "Love Me Tender." Fans line up outside the Worth theater in Fort Worth.
Date: November 29, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Radio-TV Election Coverage]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about newsmen working to compile election results and broadcast them to viewers throughout the evening.
Date: July 29, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Model T Ford]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a 1924 vintage Ford Model T, which has been equipped with several modern additions, including a smokescreen. Jack Stout owns the vehicle.
Date: October 29, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Evans]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about Clarence "Sonny" Wesley Evans' reflection about his arrest and the criminal history of his father, Edell Evans. Sonny denies the charges of statutory rape against him and explains, when he is out of jail, that he will have to leave Fort Worth and the history of his father behind.
Date: June 29, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Zonta]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about members of the Zonta club meeting at the Ridglea Country club in Fort Worth to honor Mrs. John F. Lyons as the winner of the Zonta award.
Date: March 29, 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 the domestic dispute murder of Sydney Yarbrough by his wife. The couple was arguing over Yarbrough's lack of presence that lead to the fight for control of a rifle, it was during this quarrel that Mrs. Yarbrough shot her husband.
Date: June 29, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Miss Color TV]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about Channel 5's Gaylynn Baker, who tries to get a man to marry her in celebration of the leap year.
Date: February 29, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Burglar]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the questioning of arrested safe-cracker Paul Mannes. Mannes was captured in a farmhouse near Azle, Texas, the farmhouse is a known safe zone for safe-cracker criminals. The raid that captures Mannes was meant to catch more, however, Mannes refuses to name any accomplices.
Date: June 29, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Traffic Fines]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the increase in the price of traffic fines. Traffic Captain E. L. Giles holds an interview explaining the increase in fine prices and what it means for the city.
Date: June 29, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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