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[News Script: Gasoline shortage]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about a gas shortage. American Petrofina of Dallas had begun allocating supplies of gasoline to distributors. 23 Fina stations were to close on Sunday to conserve supplies.
Date: April 28, 1973, 6:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Headlines]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating news story headlines. Texas was to temporarily get a new governor and the Byron Nelson Golf Classic was tied.
Date: April 28, 1973, 6:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Sheriff]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about the funeral of the sheriff of Presidio County. Sheriff Earnest D. Hamilton was shot to death. Deputy William Maffey was wounded in the shooting as well.
Date: April 28, 1973, 6:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: MIA league]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about the National League of Families. The group was to work to see if there were still American servicemen in Southeast Asia.
Date: April 28, 1973, 6:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Accident]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about William Otis Brumelow. Brumelow was killed in a one-car accident in Mineral Wells.
Date: April 28, 1973, 6:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Fire fatal]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about a fatal fire. A body was found this morning in a burned-out frame house. The body was unidentified at this point.
Date: April 28, 1973, 6:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Fire deaths]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about fire deaths. Six counts of first-degree murder were filed against an eighteen-year-old newspaper boy after six widows died in an apartment fire.
Date: April 28, 1973, 6:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: 6 pm sports]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating several sports news stories. The following is detailed: The Byron Nelson Golf Classic, the Texas Rangers, Rico Carty, the scores of several baseball games, and football.
Date: April 28, 1973, 6:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Headlines]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating news story headlines. Two more school board members were chosen in Dallas and a new beauty queen was named in Fort Worth.
Date: April 28, 1973, 10:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Miss fw]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about the Miss Fort Worth beauty pageant. The winner of the pageant was to be named later this day.
Date: April 28, 1973, 10:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Mia group]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about The National League of Families. The group was determined to account for American servicemen missing in Southeast Asia.
Date: April 28, 1973, 10:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Fire]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about a fire. An 18-year-old newspaper delivery boy was charged 6 counts of murder following an early morning fire in which six widows were killed. A 16-year-old was also held in connection.
Date: April 28, 1973, 10:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Dental cancer]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about dental cancer. A three-day-long dental clinic designed to detect oral cancer ended in Dallas on this day.
Date: April 28, 1973, 10:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Mauzy]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about Oscar Mauzy. Mauzy, president pro tem of Texas Senate, was sworn in as Governor for a Day on this day.
Date: April 28, 1973, 10:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Vietnam cambodia]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about the Vietnam Cease-Fire. Accusations and counter-accusations were heard on this day. North Vietnam accused the US of violating the peace agreement. The US and South Vietnam charged the Communists infiltrating the South.
Date: April 28, 1973, 10:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Carswell]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about recycling. Supporters of a recycling center for Denton shipped more than four tons of recyclable waste Carswell Air Force Base in Fort Worth.
Date: April 28, 1973, 10:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Book fair]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about a book fair. The book fair was sponsored by the Fort Worth Chapter of the National Council of Jewish Women.
Date: April 28, 1973, 10:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Flooding]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about floods. National guardsmen used amphibious crafts to evacuate farmers from floods.
Date: April 28, 1973, 10:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: 10 pm sports]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating several sports news stories. The following was detailed: Hockey, the Byron Nelson Classic, the Texas Rangers, baseball scores, college baseball scores, and basketball.
Date: April 28, 1973, 10:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: L.P.G.]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about The Texas Railroad Commission. The Commission ordered the Skelly Oil Companies from cutting off gas supplies. The Commission also ordered Koch Oil Company to stop distributing supplies of L.P.G. gas.
Date: April 28, 1973, 6:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Liquor]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about liquor. A group called the Council for Legal and Social Progress circulated petitions to ask for an election. CLASP sought the legalization of mixed drinks and off-premise beer sales.
Date: April 28, 1973, 6:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Teamsters]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about the president of the Teamsters Union, Frank Fitzsimmons. Fitzsimmons said the Teamsters Union planned to file suit against a New Hampshire newspaper over a story linking the union to Las Vegas gambling interest with Nixion's re-election campaign.
Date: April 28, 1973, 6:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: General]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about Major General John McLaughlin. McLaughlin predicted that "zero draft" conditions would not significantly diminish US military strength.
Date: April 28, 1973, 6:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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