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[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: Monorail]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about consideration for a monorail inside the State Fair of Texas. It would be the first functioning monorail in the United States.
Date: July 26, 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.)
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: Accident]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about an accident involving thee cars and six injured persons. Those injured include John C. Knox, Mr. and Mrs. John C. Knox Senior, Edward W. Ewing, Mary Pritchett, and William Joe Morton.
Date: July 8, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Evaporation]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about research being done on the effects of hexadecanol on evaporation at Kiddie Lake in Oklahoma City. North Texas State College students work with the U.S. Department of the Interior on the study.
Date: July 5, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Five Hoxsey doctors to lose licenses]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about Harry Hoxsey and five of his staff doctors whose licenses were suspended for one year due to unethical practices. The doctors are Charles P. Barberee, Douglas C. Logan, Benjamin A. Harry, Alfred H. Staffa, and William E. Stokes.
Date: July 16, 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: Freak accident]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about an accident involving two trucks. One truck, driven by R. J. Holt, ran into the truck of James McEnturff at a stoplight. Holt's truck was carrying an artillery piece for the army.
Date: July 17, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: All-Star baseball game]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the sixteenth annual Texas League All Star Game. The Dallas Eagles compete with other teams.
Date: July 20, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Boys launch canoe trip down Brazos]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about twelve Fort Worth boys going on a canoe trip down the Brazos River. The boys are Camp Carter campers and travel with their leader, Buddy Tackett.
Date: July 10, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Dallas Council]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a Dallas city council meeting. A policy that only allows lawn watering between 8 p.m. and 8 a.m. is adopted. Mrs. Addie B. Frazier also demands city buses force segregation of whites and blacks.
Date: July 2, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Parade]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the fifth annual Fourth of July celebration and parade in the Lake Como neighborhood of Fort Worth.
Date: July 4, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Hildegarde]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about Hildegarde, a famed night club singer, and her upcoming role in Can Can, a state fair musical.
Date: July 15, 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
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