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[News Script: 11 Katy freight cars derailed]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about eleven freight cars of a train derailing for unknown reasons in far north Dallas. No one was injured.
Date: August 12, 1954
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Sanity hearing]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV television station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story.
Date: March 11, 1959
Duration: 1 minute 20 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Lions]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV television station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story.
Date: March 8, 1959
Duration: 1 minute 35 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: McCraw sworn into judicial post]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about William McCraw, former Texas attorney general, appointed by Governor Allan Shivers as the new criminal district judge for Dallas County.
Date: September 22, 1954
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: News Briefs - Manhunt]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the Dallas County Sheriff Bill Decker leading a manhunt to catch David Valentine, accused of shooting William Bryant.
Date: January 5, 1955
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Wolves]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about two newsmen attempting to find wolves in northeast Dallas, as farmers are complaining that the wolves are molesting their livestock.
Date: September 7, 1955
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Rapists]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about two fifteen-year-old boys charged with the rape and beating of a young couple. The boys are William Eason and Donald Mitchell. The youths are sentenced to confinement at the Gatesville State School for Boys until they turn twenty-one.
Date: July 19, 1956
Duration: 44 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Missouri Kansas Texas]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a train accident in Carrolton, in which no one was injured. Crews worked through the night to clean up the accident.
Date: October 4, 1956
Duration: 1 minute 01 second
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Barn]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a hen house that was destroyed during a freak gust of wind. No other buildings in Tarrant or Dallas counties were damaged.
Date: July 5, 1956, 10:00 p.m.
Duration: 1 minute 08 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Grandma]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a 103rd birthday party for a Pleasant Grove woman, Ella Feagin.
Date: August 14, 1955
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Dallas county accidents]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a fatal auto accident in northern Dallas county, between Laura Wallis Wells, who was killed, and Lemmuel Jacobs.
Date: November 1, 1951
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Driver dies in flaming crash]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about Alan Arnold Brooks, crashing his truck into a bridge and perishing in the flaming wreckage.
Date: October 27, 1953
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Turkeys]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a turkey ranch in Dallas County.
Date: November 24, 1955
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Manhunt fails to turn up suspect]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a manhunt in Dallas County for a thief who stole $7 from an elderly man. The suspect is still at large.
Date: July 22, 1955
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Polio shots]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the second round of shipments for the Salk polio vaccine to be administered to Dallas County schoolchildren.
Date: July 20, 1955
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Mother of four dies in burning auto]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a Duncanville mother burning to death inside her station wagon after it spun out of control and fell off the edge of an embankment. She is survived by her children, who escaped the crash.
Date: October 16, 1955
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Beirne]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV television station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about
Date: March 16, 1959
Duration: 53 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Old Negro]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV television station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about
Date: March 16, 1959
Duration: 1 minute 11 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Screen star]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV television station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about actress Joan Crawford and her husband Alfred N. Steele, Board Chairman of the Pepsi-Cola Company, meeting with news reporters at the Sheraton Dallas Hotel.
Date: March 16, 1959
Duration: 50 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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