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[News Script: Greenway Park hearing]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a proposed gravel mine near Greenway Park, an African American neighborhood. The "Greenway Citizens League" is against the project.
Date: August 23, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Traffic Snarled in 5-Vehicle Accident]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a five-car accident on Fort Worth's North-South freeway. Vehicles were barely damaged and no one was hurt significantly, but traffic was backed up for miles.
Date: August 23, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Iron Lung]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about Laverne Philips, a 13-year-old girl, and her impending trip to Southwestern Poliomyelitis Respiratory Center in Houston, where she will be weaned away from her iron lung.
Date: September 23, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Cop Uniform]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a new police uniform for Fort Worth police officers, which includes a crash helmet, steel-reinforced leggings, and tight-fitting knickers.
Date: September 23, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Train]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about Jack Walker, a grader operator in Haltom City, who was killed at a railroad crossing. The grader may have been too loud for Walker to hear the train whistle.
Date: July 23, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Payoff Started at River Oaks Bank]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the FDIC beginning to pay off debtors of the River Oaks State Bank, which recently closed. Most accounts are paid in full.
Date: October 23, 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 Mrs. A. L. Nation, who was shot in a double shooting. Theodore Charles Bilger shot Mrs. Nation, then killed himself.
Date: November 23, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Tarrant Commissioners]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the construction of new wings to the Tarrant county courthouse. County commissioners decided to add the new wings rather than build a separate site.
Date: July 23, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Tonight cast rehearsal]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about Steve Allen and the cast of the Tonight Show rehearsing for an airing from Fort Worth.
Date: April 23, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Swink]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the Fort Worth Jaycees naming TCU's halfback Jim Swink the outstanding amateur athlete of the year.
Date: May 23, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Lavin]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about Charles Lavin arriving in Fort Worth to help the Ambassador hotel restructure their management system to make housing more affordable for the elderly.
Date: February 23, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Church]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a dispute between a church and nearby citizens over the church's noise level and bus location.
Date: May 23, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Pickets March in Traffic Protest]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a group of mothers protesting the fast-moving traffic along East Rosedale Street, where three children from R. Vickery Elementary School have been struck this school year.
Date: February 23, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Girl is Flown to Galveston Hospital]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about Alice Oller, a nine-year-old mentally handicapped girl who was abandoned with her little sister at a Fort Worth railroad station by their mother. After being taken in by the Lena Pope Home, Alice set herself on fire, believing that no one cared about her. She is being flown to Galveston to receive treatment for her burns.
Date: February 23, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: New salt water fish at aquarium]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the James R. Record Aquarium in Fort Worth getting new inhabitants in the form of a giant hermit crab, a French angel fish, and newborn seahorses.
Date: April 23, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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