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[News Script: Record March cold wave chills state]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a record cold snap in Texas. A high school track and field meet in Dallas went ahead as scheduled, despite the cold.
Date: March 27, 1955
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Streets flooded by best rain of year]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about heavy rains causing flooding in Dallas and Fort Worth.
Date: March 20, 1955
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Salk polio shots start this week]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a large shipment of Dr. Jonas Salk's new polio vaccine arriving at Carswell Air Force Base in Fort Worth, to be distributed among children at local schools. Another shipment of vaccines arrives at Grand Prairie's Hensley Field, carrying enough medicine for Dallas and the surrounding counties.
Date: April 17, 1955
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Leaflets showered on cities of area]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a campaign in North Texas by the Civil Air Patrol, dropping leaflets from airplanes over towns in the area soliciting donations for the Radio Free Europe project.
Date: February 22, 1955
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Machine shop explosion]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a traveling machine shop explosion in Fort Worth. Also covered, a fire at a truck service station in Dallas.
Date: February 10, 1955
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Maj. General Christenberry]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the former deputy chief of staff of the Eighth Army in Korea, Major General Charles W. Christenberry, visiting Texas to speak at Fort Worth's Texas Friendship League for Korea.
Date: February 17, 1955
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Mass vaccination for polio planned]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the plans of the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis to provide a mass polio vaccination.
Date: January 4, 1955
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: TCU basketball]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a basketball game between Texas Christian University and the University of Arkansas and a game between Southern Methodist University and the University of Texas that same day.
Date: March 2, 1955
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: TCU baseball]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a non-conference baseball game between Texas Christian University and Southern Methodist University. TCU wins 1-0.
Date: March 15, 1955
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 the juror selection for the murder trial of Carl George Malloy, who was accused of murdering his 7-week-old son. Also covered, a story about a fire in Itasca that destroyed the Gardner Truck and Tractor Company and a merger between the Taylor Oil and Gas Company and the Delhi Oil Corporation.
Date: January 11, 1955
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Amusing antics]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a series of unusual incidents in Dallas and Fort Worth, including a runaway pig pursued by local police, an intoxicated man stuck on a roof rescued by firemen, and a woman promoting an interior decorating company by walking down the street in a swimsuit with advertising material.
Date: July 17, 1955
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Hot rod]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a Fort Worth jalopy racer being honored in Dallas for saving the life of another racer.
Date: May 29, 1955
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Schools]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the Supreme Court's decision to end segregation in schools.
Date: May 31, 1955
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Lakes rise after weeks of heavy rain]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about heavy rain in North Texas.
Date: May 20, 1955
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Eagles-Cats]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the Dallas Eagles and the Fort Worth Cats holding their final workouts before the start of the upcoming Texas League game in Shreveport.
Date: April 5, 1955
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Fort Worth girl is queen of photogs]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a Fort Worth woman, Beverly Burmeister, chosen as Queen of the Dallas-Fort Worth News Photographers Association at the organization's annual beauty contest.
Date: April 24, 1955
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Few in area get questioned vaccine]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a federal order to halt the distribution of polio vaccines made by Cutter Laboratories in California, after several people fall ill with polio after receiving the inoculation. Officials say vaccines made by the company have been distributed in unknown numbers in the Dallas and Fort Worth areas, but no cases of polio from the vaccine have appeared.
Date: April 27, 1955
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Cops swarm motel to arrest suspect]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about Fort Worth Police raiding a motel in the city to apprehend a Dallas man wanted for questioning in connection with the murder of a gas station attendant.
Date: April 13, 1955
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: National Guardsmen in practice alert]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a National Guard practice alert sending guardsmen nationwide to their assembly posts, including at Hensley Field in Grand Prairie and Eagle Mountain Base near Fort Worth.
Date: April 20, 1955
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Miller]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about accused narcotics distributor Johnny Ernest Miller, brother of murdered drug kingpin George Herman Miller, released on bond in Dallas County after being charged with selling heroin to undercover agents.
Date: May 12, 1955
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Drowning]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering two news stories about the accidental drowning of Curtis Burns and the suicidal drowning of Albert Roach.
Date: May 1, 1955
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Location: 32.722653 -96.958492
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Pete]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a public measuring ceremony for a python named Pete at Fort Worth's Forest Park Zoo, after the arrival of a python named Pat at the Dallas Zoo that is claimed to be longer than Pete.
Date: August 12, 1955
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Divers escape in freak accidents]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about three freak automobile accidents in one day.
Date: August 28, 1955
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Home blast blames on union strife]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the home of a plumber's union organizer bombed in Richland Hills. The victim, Jeff Mullally, blames strife within the union over unemployment for the bombing.
Date: August 14, 1955
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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