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[News Script: Jack Benny]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about comedian and violinist Jack Benny coming to Dallas to perform in a benefit show for the Dallas Symphony.
Date: February 27, 1961
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: FW fatal]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a one-vehicle car accident that claimed the life of a man in Fort Worth.
Date: February 28, 1961
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Mayor McCann announces]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about Fort Worth mayor Thomas A. McCann announcing his bid for reelection.
Date: February 15, 1961
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Hospital patient/extradite]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a patient at Fort Worth's Harris Hospital committing suicide and Fort Worth ex-convicts Horace Burt Mullins and Melvin Renfro fighting their extradition to Oklahoma.
Date: February 16, 1961
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Moby Dick]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about Dr. Howard Hughes', professor of English Literature at Texas Wesleyan College, collection of over 200 editions of the Herman Melville novel Moby Dick, including translations of the book in 39 different languages.
Date: February 4, 1961
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Pilot]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about 25-year veteran of Braniff Airlines, Captain Virgil Turnbull, retiring and receiving a house-trailer as a gift from his former employer.
Date: February 24, 1961
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Rodeo riders]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the last day of the annual Southwestern Exposition and Fat Stock Show Rodeo in Fort Worth.
Date: February 5, 1961
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, covering a news story about Major General Phillip H. Draper, deputy commander of air defense command, presenting an award to Denton's Nike missile installation, which scored highest of all missile units in the country.
Date: February 6, 1961
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, covering a news story about a house fire in Dallas that killed a young mother and her two children.
Date: February 22, 1961
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Pony league]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a baseball field being built on the south side of Fort Worth for the Pony League.
Date: February 4, 1961
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Shivers testifies]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about former governor Allan Shivers testifying against B.R. Sheffield for his part in the Kinney County land scandal.
Date: February 3, 1961
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Dallas Mayoralty candidate]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about parking lot operator George F. Fox, Jr. entering Dallas' mayoral race for the third time.
Date: February 5, 1961
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Boat show]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about preparations for the Great Southwest Boat Show in Dallas.
Date: February 28, 1961
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Girls shaped up]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the contestants of the Miss Rural Electrification of 1961 beauty contest in Dallas getting a brief course in charm school training for the pageant.
Date: February 14, 1961
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Truck overturns]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a truck overturning in a one-vehicle accident in Dallas.
Date: February 27, 1961
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Pigs]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about excess piglets from a large litter being nursed by a dog who had lost her puppies in the town of Direct.
Date: February 22, 1961
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Champion auctioned]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about Black Jack, the grand champion Angus steer of Fort Worth's Southwestern Exposition and Fat Stock Show, going up for auction.
Date: February 3, 1961
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Tuberculosis hearing]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about Clyde Lilburn Spann fighting his confinement in the State Tuberculosis Hospital in San Antonio in a Dallas court, maintaining he was not infected by the disease.
Date: February 27, 1961
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Game warden]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the annual game dinner of the Sportsmen's Club of Fort Worth, where game warden Gene Ashby being named Sportsman of the Year.
Date: February 25, 1961
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: DAR]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about preparations for the 62nd annual conference of the Texas Daughters of the American Revolution in Dallas.
Date: February 15, 1961
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Two candidates]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about two liberal candidates, Maury Maverick and Henry Gonzales, vying for the newly-vacant senate seat left by Vice President Lyndon Johnson.
Date: February 27, 1961
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Elec. doghouse]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about an electrically-heated doghouse on display at a conference of the National Rural Electric Cooperative Association in Dallas.
Date: February 13, 1961
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Curtis Jones trial]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the trial of Curtis Lee Jones, accused of armed robbery and recently convicted of murder, in Weatherford.
Date: February 13, 1961
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, covering a news story about a four-alarm fire in Fort Worth that destroyed the Sloan Lumber Company and damaged the old city recreation building.
Date: February 14, 1961
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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