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[News Script: News Briefs; Poll Taxes]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about Tarrant county residents paying their poll tax. Robert L. Brooks and Mrs. Harold Davis are among the first to pay their taxes.
Date: October 1, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Abandoned children claimed by mother]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about two children who were left at a movie by their mother, who promised to return. When she did not return, the children were taken to the Lena Pope home, where their mother picked them up the next morning.
Date: July 10, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Octopus]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a new octopus at the Fort Worth Aquarium named Ormsby the Second.
Date: July 27, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Highway post office shown at convention]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a mobile post office being shown at the National Postal Transportation Association convention. The mobile post office is a converted bus, where clerks sort mail as it is being delivered.
Date: July 18, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Drownings]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the drownings of two fifteen-year-old boys from Fort Worth. James Don Lucky drowned at Casino Beach on Lake Worth, and Ernest Campbell Junior drowned in Lake Como.
Date: July 2, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Location: 32.734197 -97.397362
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Wedding]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the wedding of Bobby Jean Roberts, a Dallas waitress, and Horace C. Buell, a deaf man. They were planning for a church wedding, but were married at Baylor hospital after the groom suffered from a broken ankle.
Date: July 22, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Chapplear]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the death of Robert Chappelear, a member of the WBAP-TV news staff. He died when his car collided with a gravel truck.
Date: November 26, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Driver Injured in Three Truck Crash]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a three truck collision in Fort Worth. J. W. Wright is injured.
Date: December 4, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Two precincts vote against prohibition]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about failed efforts to pass prohibition in two Tarrant county precincts.
Date: October 3, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Narcotics Offenders Given Prison Terms]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the continued prosecution of narcotics cases. Johnny James Jackson is given eight years in prison.
Date: October 16, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Benbrook Drowning Ruled Accidental]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about an drowning investigation.
Date: December 22, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Santa Claus]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the arrival of Santa Claus in an Arlington Sears store.
Date: November 24, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: The Week in Review]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering the weekly news report about a robbery, multiple shootings, a warehouse explosion, a train accident, and a house fire.
Date: December 29, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Negroes, etc.]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about protests in the Morningside section of Fort Worth. Whites worry about the encroachment of African Americans into their neighborhoods. Signs which read "This property is not for sale to Negroes" are placed in front of buildings.
Date: October 7, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script:Taxi Bandit Jailed, Admits Robberies]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the capture of Willard Sandford who is responsible for a series of taxicab robberies in Fort Worth.
Date: December 19, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: News briefs; Jet Tanks; Fire; Westover Hills]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering three news stories. The first story is about two tanks that fell from a military jet plane into the yards of Dallas homeowners. Next is a story about a fire that started in a Fort Worth garage, causing no injuries. The final story is about the impending expansion of Fort Worth suburb Westover Hills. New homes will be built on newly acquired land.
Date: July 13, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Boy Goes to Trial in Death of Mother]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about an eighteen-year-old youth, Charles Everett Cole, and his trial for killing his mother. Cole states that he shot at his step-father in self-defense, but he accidentally shot his mother.
Date: October 22, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: British Designer Sees Bomber]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about Sir William Pharren, who visits the Convair plant in Fort Worth. He observes the company's newest jet bomber, the B-58.
Date: October 18, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: 1918 Fliers Honored at Memorial Service]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the annual memorial service of the World War I Fliers Club for Canadian servicemen who died while training in the Fort Worth area. The Canadian fliers are buried in a section of Greenwood Cemetery.
Date: November 12, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Council]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the action, or lack thereof, towards the proposal to build a hanger at Carter Field in Fort Worth, Texas. The second story is about the relocation of the health center and concerning issues around them.
Date: December 19, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Hose Burrowing Itself in Ground]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a garden hose that has been burrowed in the ground at the home of John R. Lopez in River Oaks. Other cases of burrowed hoses have been reported in DFW.
Date: November 14, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Fire Death]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a fire in the Mansfield home of Johnny M. Donnelly. He and two dogs were killed.
Date: November 29, 1956
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 football game between Fort Worth's Paschal High School Panthers and the Cleburne Yellow Jackets. Cleburne wins the game.
Date: October 6, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: The Week in Review]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering the weekly news report about the NAACP, visiting senators, bank refund, a gas explosion killing two in Southmayd, Texas, court cases, a man murdered by a 14 year old, and two plane accidents.
Date: October 27, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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