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[News Script: News Briefs - Firebug]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the arrest of a mentally ill boy named John Maurice Jordan who admits to setting 17 fires in Houston.
Date: January 27, 1954
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Radar]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the installation of a radar dome atop the Federal Office Building in Houston for weather tracking and civil defense.
Date: January 19, 1954
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: News briefs Poil Mesta]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the former United States Minister to Luxembourg, Perle Mesta, visiting Houston.
Date: January 17, 1954
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: ROTC marksmen receive awards]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about Fort Worth's top ROTC marksmen receiving awards at Arlington Heights High School.
Date: March 18, 1954
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Brainwashed Padre]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the Houston stop of a lecture tour by Catholic priest Robert W. Greene. Father Greene's lecture describes his trial, imprisonment and eventual banishment from Communist China amid allegations of being an American spy.
Date: January 19, 1954
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Ledge rescue]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a foiled suicide attempt by a Houston postal worker on the ledge of a Dallas hotel, along with a plane crash at a boat company in Grand Prairie that killed two workers.
Date: December 31, 1954
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Houston's envoy completes tour]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a Houston geologist, Barney McCandless, traveling to every city in the nation with a population of over one million and handing out souvenirs to publicize the fact that the population of Houston now exceeds one million. McCandless wraps up his trip in Dallas.
Date: July 18, 1954
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Abilene takes state grid crown]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the football game for the state championship between Abilene High School and Stephen F. Austin High School.
Date: December 19, 1954
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Nixon defends Wilson dog story]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about Vice President Richard Nixon arriving in Houston to address a druggists convention and commenting on recent remarks made by Secretary of Defense Wilson.
Date: October 14, 1954
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Rice downs Texas, takes SWC lead]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the Southwest Conference Basketball game between Rice University and the University of Texas.
Date: February 14, 1954
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Dog dragnet in Houston]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a crackdown on stray dogs in Houston for rabies control purposes.
Date: February 18, 1954
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Houstonians take cruise]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the arrival of a Caribbean-bound French luxury cruise liner in Houston, the first cruise ship to dock there in several years.
Date: January 10, 1954
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Houston D. A. says charges political]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about Houston District Attorney William M. Scott being brought up on charges of running a house of prostitution.
Date: March 11, 1954
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Cats defeated in delayed opener]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the season opener for the 1954 Texas League Campaign of the Fort Worth Cats at Buff Stadium in Houston.
Date: April 11, 1954
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: 49 charged in dope crackdown]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a roundup of dope peddlers by undercover cops in Houston.
Date: April 9, 1954
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Mustangs trample Rice Owls 20-6]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a college football game in Houston between the Rice University Owls and the Southern Methodist University Mustangs. The Mustangs win 20-6.
Date: October 17, 1954
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Prison fugitives are recaptured]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the recapture of 10 convicts escaped from Harlem Prison Farm near Sugar Land.
Date: March 24, 1954
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: McCarthy makes Dallas visit]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about Senator Joseph McCarthy visiting Dallas with his wife. McCarthy was in Texas for a speaking engagement on San Jacinto Day at the San Jacinto memorial in La Porte.
Date: April 14, 1954
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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