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[News Script: Barry]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a bail bond hearing for Betty Louis Barry, charged with killing a Dallas bar owner named Chicken Louie Ferrantello.
Date: August 1, 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: Rapists]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about two fifteen-year-old boys charged with the rape and beating of a young couple. The boys are William Eason and Donald Mitchell. The youths are sentenced to confinement at the Gatesville State School for Boys until they turn twenty-one.
Date: July 19, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Hearing held in extortion case]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about the hearing for a high-profile Dallas extortion case.
Date: May 12, 1954
Duration: 3 minutes 47 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Letter from Chester E. Ollison to W. S. McCree - 1953-02-03]

Description: Onionskin carbon copy of a letter from Chester E. Ollison, Appeals Counselor of the Texas Education Agency in Austin, Texas, to W. S. McCree, President of the Board of Trustees, Pecos Independent School District in Pecos, Texas, dated February 3,1953. The letter refers to a petition received from patrons of Pecos ISD regarding segregation of children of Spanish-speaking ancestry. Ollison outlines steps the school district is to take in addressing the issues cited in the petition.
Date: February 3, 1953
Creator: Ollison, Chester E.
Partner: Hoston History Research Center at Houston Public Library

[Telegram from Lloyd G. Rust, Jr., to John J. Herrera - 1953-01-05]

Description: Telegram from Lloyd G. Rust, Jr., Wharton County Attorney, to John J. Herrera, dated January 5, 1953. Rust notifies Herrera of the date and time of the Grand Jury hearing regarding conduct of an Officer Sifford. Rust invites Herrera to be a witness at this hearing.
Date: January 5, 1953
Creator: Rust, Lloyd G., Jr.
Partner: Hoston History Research Center at Houston Public Library
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[News Clip: News briefs]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering three news stories. The first story is about auditions for female "usherettes" at musicals held during the state fair. The second story is about two young boys petitioning the Dallas City Council for an investigation into a string of dog poisonings. The third story is about a monkey breaking loose from the Marsalis Park Zoo and taking hours to be recaptured.
Date: May 30, 1951
Duration: 2 minutes 29 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: J. C. Mount fails to appear at hearing]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about Fort Worth attorney J. C. Mount failing to show up to a hearing concerning him that was held by the district grievance committee of the state bar association.
Date: January 25, 1957
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Petersen denied release on bond]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a bond hearing for Keith Lewis Petersen, a Dallas man accused of murdering a woman in a downtown office building. Petersen, who was previously ruled insane but now considered fit to stand trial, is denied release on bond.
Date: November 24, 1954
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Murder suspect is found sane]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a sanity hearing for Joe Martinez, a Dallas man accused of murdering a bus driver. The court rules Martinez of sound mind, forcing him to stand trial.
Date: November 3, 1954
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Suit Seeks to Halt Land Development]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a lawsuit brought against William Zeckendorf by Milton L. Stern in an attempt to stop development of land acquired by the Zeckendorf combine near Arlington.
Date: January 10, 1956
Duration: 3 minutes 35 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: School suit Tex news]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about a suit against Dallas Independent School District for not integrating the schools after Federal law prohibited segregation.
Date: November 10, 1958
Duration: 1 minute 11 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Contempt hearing]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about Robert L. Brasleton facing charges of contempt of court in Fort Worth.
Date: November 13, 1958
Duration: 1 minute 12 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Nona Lee]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about an investigation of the death of William P Fulton. Nona Lee is one of the five suspects of his death.
Date: November 24, 1958
Duration: 56 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Bribe hearing]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about Steve Adams being charged with bribing a Dallas police officer.
Date: January 24, 1959
Duration: 1 minute 23 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Mrs. Clark given formal release]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about the release of Mrs. Mary Clark, freed after being found innocent in Tarrant County Court of assisting in the murder of her wealthy husband.
Date: November 28, 1955
Duration: 2 minutes 06 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Secretary Brannan breakfast guest]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV television station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story about Agricultural Secretary Charles Brannan visiting Fort Worth, en route to Gatesville.
Date: October 12, 1951
Duration: 39 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Suspect jailed in bank robbery]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about Harvey Bell Tutt being arraigned on federal charges of robbing the First State Bank of Maypearl.
Date: May 28, 1953
Duration: 1 minute 31 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Ashby]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about federal charges filed against Bert G. Ashby, a Dallas disbarred criminal lawyer suspected of tax fraud.
Date: March 9, 1956
Duration: 1 minute 07 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Grain Hearing]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the arraignment of two men, Leo Potishman and Julian Scott, who were accused of defrauding the government.
Date: October 7, 1953
Duration: 1 minute 28 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Legislature]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about a hearing in the Texas Legislature in Austin to redistrict the 79th State Judicial District, to reduce the power of political boss George Parr in Jim Wells County.
Date: April 17, 1953
Duration: 53 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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