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[News Script: Mustangs Roll Over Notre Dame]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about Southern Methodist University's victory over Notre Dame in the Dallas Cotton Bowl.
Date: September 23, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: NAACP Attorney Protests Violence]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about U. Simpson Tate's telegrams, from Dallas, Texas, to Governor Shivers and President Eisenhower, calling for help in getting African American students safely into Texarkana Junior College.
Date: September 10, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Explosion]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a gas explosion destroying a home in McKinney, Texas.
Date: August 30, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Baby Injured in Second Floor Fall]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about Deborah Smith, a baby in Oak Cliff, who tumbled from a second-story window and received minor scratches.
Date: September 12, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Mandamus Hearing]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about Minor Wilson, an attorney, asking for a writ of mandamus in 14th District court.
Date: September 17, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Husband Charged in Murder of Wife]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a Fort Worth electrician's murder of his wife, Mrs. Clara Payne, who was found a mile north of the city on the old Decatur Road.
Date: September 11, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: G.O.P.]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the Tarrant county Republicans, and their campaign for Eisenhower-Nixon.
Date: September 27, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Sonny Evans]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the arrest of teenager Sonny Evans, who was found in a car near the scene of a tavern where somebody had torn off the back screen, supposedly in a burglary effort.
Date: September 7, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Negro Agrees to Sell Judkins House]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about African American man Lloyd G. Austin moving into the all-white block of Judkins street in Fort Worth, Texas. After a day of demonstration and a night of violence protesting, Austin agreed to sell the Judkins home and move into an all-black area; however, when given the sales papers, Austin declined to sign them.
Date: September 3, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Balloon]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about an Army Signal Corps weather balloon that floated down from the sky in Fort Worth and found a new home with Joe Whilhite's son.
Date: September 12, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Jury being chosen for assault trial]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the beginning of jury selection in Dallas, Texas, for the trial of Joseph D'Angelo of Brooklyn, New York, accused of raping an 11-year-old Dallas girl on 4 February 1956.
Date: September 10, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Football Luncheon]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about an honor banquet in Dallas for the Chicago Bears and New York Giants football teams.
Date: September 14, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Abductor Sentenced on Assault Charge]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about Garland Lee Creed, a Fort Worth house painter who pleads guilty to charges of assault with intent to rape a six-year-old girl.
Date: September 25, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Dallas Loan Firm is Robbed]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a bandit who robbed a loan company in downtown Dallas with a 38-caliber pistol.
Date: September 17, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: GOP]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about preparations for the Texas Republican Convention at Fort Worth's Texas Hotel.
Date: September 5, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Dogs]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a carpenter, A.C. Maddox, who is building dog houses for sale. He has a "city" of more than 20 dog houses in his backyard.
Date: September 6, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: News Briefs - Gooks]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a group of international visitors stopping in Fort Worth as part of their tour of America and several other countries to look at their electric power industries.
Date: September 2, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: NAACP to Fight Restraining Order]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the NAACP's decision to fight a restraining order, which bars the organization from doing business in Texas.
Date: September 23, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Butler Says Texas Will Vote Democratic]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about Paul Butler, a Democratic National Chairman, who arrives at Carter Field to attend a football game and discuss politics.
Date: September 23, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Nine Injured When Bus, Cars Collide]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the collision of two cars and a transit bus at the intersection of Peak and San Jacinto streets in Dallas.
Date: September 18, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: TCU]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a pep rally for Texas Christian University's football game against the University of Kansas at Lawrence.
Date: September 19, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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