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[News Script: Tornado]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a tornado and severe weather in Cleburne, Midlothian, and Britton, and the damage that was sustained.
Date: August 31, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Mansfield]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about Mansfield's dedication of a new city hall.
Date: September 16, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Reunion]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about ten thousand settlers assembling for the 64th annual Johnson County Old Settlers Reunion.
Date: August 7, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Banker Fails to Identify Robbery Suspects]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a banker who was robbed by two men. The robbers took the banker's money and $254 in change from his bank. The banker is unable to identify the men in a police lineup.
Date: August 24, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Miss Texas rides train to contest]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about Jo Dodson, who will represent Texas in the Miss Universe contest. She boards a train for the contest in Long Beach, California.
Date: July 10, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Shooting]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a Cleburne car dealer shot to death outside a tavern. Police believe the victim, Charley Monroe Reynolds, was fatally struck by a bullet meant for the tavern's owner, Bill Anderson. Several suspects are questioned regarding the murder, but the investigation is still open.
Date: May 15, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Burleson man loses third of business]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a Burleson feed store owner losing a portion of his building after Johnson County officials route the path of a new highway interchange through his property.
Date: May 29, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Miss Navy]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a military-sponsored "Miss Navy" beauty contest in Lake Whitney.
Date: June 12, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Flares fizzle]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a test of aerial photographic flash flares by the Chance Vought Aircraft company in the skies over Cleburne and Midlothian.
Date: September 22, 1954
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Reunion]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story about ten thousand settlers assembling for the 64th annual Johnson County Old Settlers Reunion. The video shows spectators and performers at Alvarado's town square.
Date: August 7, 1956
Duration: 3 minutes 14 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Cleburne]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV television station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story.
Date: March 10, 1959
Duration: 1 minute 19 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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A Measurement of the Popularity of the Extra-Curricular Activities in Cleburne High School, Cleburne, Texas, with the Relationships of Certain Factors to that Popularity

Description: The purposes of this study are: (1) to determine the popularity of extra-curricular organizations existing in the school as a means of indicating the successful and the unsuccessful groups in the school, (2) to establish the relationships of certain factors to the popularity of the activities so that efforts may be made to improve less successful activities, (3) to discover the extent and the popularity of social activities provided by the city of Cleburne, Texas, for the high school students i… more
Date: 1950
Creator: Watson, Katie Maxine
Partner: UNT Libraries
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[News Script: Sexton will]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a legal battle between Winnell Shipley and Agnes Kirk over the estate of J. E. Sexton. Petitions filed in Cleburne, Texas.
Date: March 20, 1959
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Alvarado parade]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a parade to kick off the 67th Annual Reunion of the Johnson County Pioneers and Old Settler's Association in Alvarado.
Date: August 10, 1959
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Anderson funeral]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about R.L Anderson, who passed away at the age of 81 from injuries suffered in a car wreck.
Date: November 4, 1959
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Old Settlers See Parade, Contest]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the parade for the 61st annual Johnson County Old Settler's reunion in Alvarado.
Date: August 11, 1953
Duration: 2 minutes 12 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Sexton Case]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about the Cleburne hearing regarding the will of the late millionaire J. E. Sexton coming to an abrupt end as the will is thrown out of court as a handwriting expert out of New York determines the will is forged and that the witness, W. T. Mayo did not sign the will as a proper witness, as he was not mentally competent to do so.
Date: July 24, 1958
Duration: 2 minutes 45 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: The week in review]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story covering a review of the week's most notable news stories.
Date: March 15, 1958
Duration: 3 minutes 31 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Kirk]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about Cleburn rest home operator Agnes Kirk receiving a sizable inheritance from a former boarder who attempted to sexually assault her.
Date: March 12, 1958
Duration: 3 minutes 13 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Sexton]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about the will of oilman J.E. Sexton being contested by his sister.
Date: March 17, 1958
Duration: 5 minutes 04 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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