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[News Script: Military Funeral for Carswell Co]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a funeral with full military honors for Colonel Roland R. Haile.
Date: August 19, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Billy Graham]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a rally in San Antonio led by the evangelist Billy Graham.
Date: July 26, 1958
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Drownings]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a woman in San Antonio who drowned her three children being charged with murder.
Date: August 18, 1958
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Addison]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about John Milton Addison going on trial for the theft of fifty dollars.
Date: December 13, 1959
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Triplet survivors]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the birth of triplets in San Antonio, Texas.
Date: October 21, 1959
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Candy Barr]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about Fort Worth stripper and attempted murderess Candy Barr returning to Texas from the West Coast to serve a 15-year prison sentence for marijuana possession.
Date: December 3, 1959
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Condemned killer cheats chair again]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about convicted murderer Alvaro Alcorta receiving a last-minute delay of his execution for a court hearing.
Date: February 16, 1957
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Amputee is blood donor]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a San Antonio blood drive organized by Korean War veteran and quadruple amputee Werner Reininger, who says he is determined to pay back his debt in blood donations to the U.S. Armed Forces for saving his life.
Date: July 16, 1953
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Batchelor]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about Claude Batchelor returning to Texas from Korea and Thurman Priest slaying his niece.
Date: December 31, 1954
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Batchelor's plea denied by court]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the court-martial of Corporal Claude Batchelor at Fort Sam Houston in San Antonio. Corporal Batchelor stands accused of providing information to the enemy while a prisoner of war in Korea, as well as refusing to return to the U.S. when given the opportunity by his captors.
Date: August 31, 1954
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: San Antonio killer]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the Bexar county deputies arresting William Long for murdering Allen B. Lippman and his wife while trying to steal Lippman's car.
Date: May 24, 1958
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Gypsies]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a group of Roma setting up an encampment outside a San Antonio hospital, where a fellow Romani was recuperating after being hit by a car.
Date: March 22, 1958
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Bexar County murder]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a manhunt for the murderer of a San Antonio turkey farmer's wife.
Date: March 15, 1958
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Knock out gun]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about an animal tranquilizer gun being tested near San Antonio.
Date: April 22, 1958
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Car thief]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a teenage car thief being apprehended in Fort Worth and being returned to San Antonio.
Date: July 14, 1959
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Korean Wounded]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas relating a news story about a C-74 Globemaster Transport plan landing in Kelley Air Force Base in San Antonio carrying 69 wounded soldiers and marines from the Korean battlefronts. The wounded are admitted at Lackland hospital before being shuttled off to hospitals near their hometowns.
Date: December 22, 1950, 6:45 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Summers says story is true]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about Donald Martin Summers, who was serving 20 years in prison for armed robbery, confessing to the sexual assault and murder of a toddler hours before the man convicted of the crime was set to be executed. Authorities were trying to determine if his story was true.
Date: February 6, 1958
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Dope raid]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a San Antonio drug raid that turned up $30,000 worth of raw opium and led to 33 arrests.
Date: February 8, 1958
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: The Week in Review]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering the major news stories of the past week, including a gas explosion and fire at a Greenville hotel that killed one man, a San Antonio house fire that killed three children, the surrender of two men in Tarrant County for questioning in the murder of a truck driver during an altercation, a five-year prison term for marijuana posession in San Antonio for country singer T. Texas Tyler, bond posted by Dallas stockbroker Ben Jack Cage … more
Date: December 14, 1957
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Giles posts bond in latest charge]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about Bascom Giles surrendering to Sheriff Own Kilday to post 50-thousand dollars bond on a bribery indictment brought against him.
Date: March 10, 1955
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: C A P girls at Lackland]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the women's branch of the Civil Air Patrol training at San Antonio's Lackland Air Force Base.
Date: June 25, 1953
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Rayburn lashes at Republicans]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about Congressman Sam Rayburn speaking in San Antonio.
Date: October 14, 1953
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Horned frogs]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about 13 horned toads flying from San Antonio to Massachusetts to replace a class pet at the Davis school in Newton.
Date: July 15, 1953
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Train/auto]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about an accident between a train and a car near San Antonio that left five people dead and one critically injured.
Date: December 28, 1957
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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