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[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: Generous bandit robs cafeteria]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a robbery at the Dunton Cafeteria in the Casa View shopping senior in Dallas. Janitor F. W. Spencer says the cafeteria was robbed by a masked gunman who enlisted his services to help break open a safe.
Date: July 27, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Bates]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the revocation of Gus Bates Junior's slaughter-house permit. Ted MacMaster and John Shurette claim that Bates slaughtered diseased cattle and sold their meat on the market.
Date: July 26, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Negro Youth Shot]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about seventeen-year-old Robert Thomas Junior, an African American boy who shot as he walk walking home. He says a group of white teenagers were behind the shooting.
Date: 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: Robbery]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the robbery of a service station in Richland Hills. Two ex-convicts, John Joseph Smith and Andrew Jackson Martin are in custody.
Date: July 26, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Army Training]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about training of the Texas National Guardsmen and Reservists at Fort Hood. The men currently in training form the 493rd Quartermaster Group.
Date: July 26, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Calf]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about Mike Atwell, a nine-year-old from the Littles community. He is invited to lunch with the Kiwanis Club in Fort Worth and is given a two-week-old jersey calf.
Date: July 26, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Heart attack]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about Albert Miles Martindale, a deliveryman who suffered a fatal heart attack while driving his delivery truck.
Date: July 26, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Newspaper Clipping: Flaming Cross Burns in Yard at Rayburn Home]

Description: Two newspaper clippings of an article about a cross burned in the driveway of Speaker Sam Rayburn's home, Thursday, July 26, 1956. The second clipping is a continuation of the content in the first clipping. The article includes information about an FBI investigation, Sam Rayburn's opinion on the act, and an editorial note condemning the supposed nature of the act.
Date: July 27, 1956
Partner: Sam Rayburn House State Historical Site
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