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[News Script: Jail break plot]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about an attempted jailbreak foiled by officers at the Dallas County Jail.
Date: September 23, 1954
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Bond hearing for Petersen goes on]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a bond hearing for accused murderer Keith Lewis Petersen in Dallas. Petersen was previously ruled mentally unfit to stand trial, but is now judged sane.
Date: November 23, 1954
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Arlington church damaged by fire]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a fire at the First Methodist Church of Arlington. No one is injured in the blaze, but the church is virtually destroyed.
Date: November 23, 1954
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Priest case]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the funeral of 11-year-old kidnapping and murder victim Jeannette Earnest. Earnest's uncle, Thurman L. Priest, confessed to the crime.
Date: November 23, 1954
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Pro footballers pause at airport]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a stopover at Fort Worth's Amon Carter Field by the Washington Redskins football team, en route to San Francisco to play a season opener against the 49ers.
Date: September 23, 1954
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Jones boys sentenced]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the sentencing of brothers James Hollis Jones and Ralph Franklin Jones for attempting to extort large amounts of money from prominent Jewish families in Dallas. Both are sentenced to time in federal prison.
Date: September 23, 1954
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Fender's Raid]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about District Attorney Howard Fender requesting special funding in order to combat the return of gambling to Fort Worth.
Date: September 23, 1954
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Body of woman is identified]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the identification of a woman's body found on the bank of the Trinity River in Fort Worth. The woman is found to be Anna Marie Breaux, a Dallas prostitute.
Date: November 23, 1954
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Fire destroys church building]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a fire that destroyed a negro church just outside of Fort Worth, Texas.
Date: September 23, 1954
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Location: 32.720664 -97.247268
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Private display of fireworks]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about Fort Worth investigators seizing a truckload of contraband fireworks and destroying them by dumping them into the city incinerator.
Date: December 23, 1954
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Basketball]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a college basketball game featuring the TCU Horned Frogs versus the Austin College Kangaroos in Fort Worth.
Date: December 23, 1954
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Christmas party happier this year]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a Christmas party hosted by American Airlines employees for the son of an airline maintenance worker recovering from leukemia.
Date: December 23, 1954
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: News briefs]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a car accident in Fort Worth involving a truck, two pick-up trucks, a fireplug, and a cafe; also covered, three Chinese Nationalist generals stopping by Dallas after a 30-day tour of the U.S. War College.
Date: July 23, 1954
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: News brief -- accident]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about two car accidents in Fort Worth, both causing injuries but no deaths.
Date: September 23, 1954
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Anti aircraft unit arrives]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the 546th Army Anti-Aircraft Batallion arriving at Carswell Air Force Base.
Date: July 23, 1954
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Runaway car is chained to tree]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a Dallas homeowner chaining a car to a tree in her yard after the driver crashed it through her fence and abandoned it. The homeowner, Mrs. Lucile Price, seeks money from the driver before she says she will release the car.
Date: June 23, 1954
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Iron Horse nears end of trail]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the retiring of a steam locomotive and its replacement Diesel locomotive, in Fort Worth.
Date: June 23, 1954
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: You're never too young to swim]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about Howard R. "Pop" Kitchen offering swimming classes for young children at his home in Dallas.
Date: June 23, 1954
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Orphan deer gets new home at zoo]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about an orphaned deer, Hobo Joe, finding a new home at Fort Worth's Forest Park zoo, where he was cared for by the zoo's mother deer, Bambi.
Date: June 23, 1954
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Violence claims lives of two]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the death of two, one a young boy who drown and the second a woman who was fatally injured in a car accident. There was a following story about a soft drink truck that collided with a parked car and overturned.
Date: May 23, 1954
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Petitions seek Batchelor amnesty]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a campaign by a Dallas woman for the freedom of Corporal Claude Batchelor, a Texas soldier sentenced to 20 years of hard labor after accusations of collaborating with the enemy while a prisoner of war in Korea.
Date: November 23, 1954
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Youth gets 10-years]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about John Olin Carroll being sentenced to 10 years in prison for robbing a young man at knife point.
Date: September 23, 1954
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Traffic blocked by bridge fire]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a bridge fire at the intersection of Oak Lawn and Harry Hines blocking traffic in Dallas and the city's 31st fire fatality occurring in downtown Dallas that same day.
Date: December 23, 1954
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Football]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a college football game between the freshman teams of Southern Methodist University and Texas Christian University. SMU wins the game 41-13.
Date: November 23, 1954
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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