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[News Script: Clement Says South Will Go Democratic]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about Tennessee Governor Clement visiting in Dallas. He believes the south will be voting Democratic for the next election.
Date: July 22, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Novak]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about Kim Novak's arrival in Dallas to promote her last film.
Date: July 2, 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: Fess Parker]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about Fess Parker, motion picture actor, visiting Dallas. He makes an appearance on behalf of Senator Daniel's campaign for the position of governor.
Date: July 22, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Alligator escapes, spoils VFW gesture]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about an alligator that was meant to be a gift from J. T. Lindenberg of the Dallas chapter of Veterans of Foreign Wars. The alligator was meant to be donated to the James R. Record Aquarium in Fort Worth, but it fell out of the car in which it was being transported and was hit by another vehicle.
Date: July 15, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Traffic crash]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a traffic accident between a heavily-loaded truck and two vehicles. Five people were killed and five were seriously injured.
Date: July 24, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Camp]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the establishment of the Lions Club Camp for Crippled Children. The camp is located on the outskirts of Kerrville.
Date: July 9, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Robbery]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a robbery at a liquor store in Dallas. An African American man robbed sixty-six-year-old P. M. Gendler of one-hundred dollar.
Date: July 10, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Trapezee]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the opening of a circus movie in Dallas called Trapeze. The star of the film is Gina Lollabridgada.
Date: July 3, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Delay]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about I. R. Conner and his charges for swindling an elderly Missouri woman for a large sum of money in a phony medical scheme. He has won, for the time being, his desire to prevent his extradition to Missouri to face those charges.
Date: July 12, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Plowing contest]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the Texas FFA tractor operator's championship. Tommy Galloway of Wharton wins first prize.
Date: July 24, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Bigamist's wives become friends]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about Harold Thetford, who left his first wife and later married another woman. The first wife, Bobbie Mae, found out that her husband had married again and called the new wife, Ima Hattie. Both women became friends.
Date: July 12, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Sexton]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the coming trial of eighteen-year-old Frank Sexton Jr.. Sexton is accused of beating and raping a woman with three other youths. The state is expected to ask for the death penalty.
Date: July 23, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Airport]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about severe wind damage in Dallas and Tarrant Counties. The White Rock Airport in Dallas County suffered at least five-thousand dollars in damage. In Rendon, property belonging to Floyd Clowdus is destroyed.
Date: July 24, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Hair Style]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about two of Europe's master hair stylists performing a demonstration for American beauticians.
Date: July 1, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Another worker falls to death in Dallas]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about Melvin Henry Hudgins, an iron worker who fell sixty feet and died. He was working on the new municipal auditorium in Dallas.
Date: July 13, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Peters say law to end his career]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a Louisiana bill which bans interracial sports. The bill may mean that Shreveport sports will be moved out of the Texas league.
Date: July 16, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: News briefs - accident]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a Dallas driver, Jeff Reed Junior, who struck an elderly pedestrian, Noel Riddle. Riddle is not believed to have been seriously injured.
Date: July 15, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Prank]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a prank played by the fifteen-year-old son of Mrs. Willis Murphy. A dummy U.S.A.F. detonator was planted for police to find.
Date: July 26, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Fall]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the death of Lester M. Wafford. He was doing construction work on the Exchange bank building in Dallas when he fell from the tenth floor.
Date: July 9, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Cash register robbery]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about two men who stole a cash register from a service station near Irving.
Date: July 17, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Moore]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about Tom Moore, the McLennan County District Attorney and his campaign for State Attorney General.
Date: July 11, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Woman is jailed in slaying of gambler]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about Betty Barry accidentally killing "Chicken" Louie Ferrantello, an ex-gambler, in Dallas. Barry says that she wanted to shoot herself, but Ferrantello tried to take the gun away from her. She fired at him during the struggle.
Date: July 18, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Bob Hope]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about Bob Hope's arrival in Dallas to promote the movie "That Certain Feeling."
Date: July 12, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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