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[News Script: Aggies - Rice]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a football game between Texas A & M and Rice University. Texas A & M wins the game.
Date: November 18, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: WBAP Farm Editor Turns Inventor]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about WBAP farm editor Doc Ruhman. He has a new invention called the Paw-Paw Pony, which makes it more fun for children to bounce on an adult's knee.
Date: November 8, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Basketball]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about drills for ten outstanding Southwest Conference basketball stars. Coaches Doc Hayes of SMU and Don Suman of Rice supervise. Some of the Stars will be selected to play in the Olympic games.
Date: November 4, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Antique Show]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about an antique show at the Texas Hotel. The show is one of sixteen annual World Wide Antique shows arranged by Mrs. Ora Slout of Michigan.
Date: November 2, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Boxing]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a boxing match between Buddy Turman and Emil Brtko. Buddy Turman wins the match.
Date: November 2, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Deer]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the first deer killing of the season.
Date: November 18, 1956
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 station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the various stories covered this week. Stories include the first flight of the B-58 bomber, a confessed murderer being sent to Parkland Hospital, the reopening of the case for "Chicken" Louie Ferrantello's murder, among others.
Date: November 17, 1956
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 station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the stories aired that week. Some of the news stories include a visit to Dallas by Al Gore; a collision between a fire truck and a parked Globemaster at Carswell Air Force Base; an integration lawsuit in Dallas; the murder trial of Joe Ed Tissier, among other stories.
Date: November 3, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: B-58 bomber makes another test run]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about Convair's new B-58 bomber. Onlookers have been gathering in hopes of watching the first test run, but so far the plane has only made taxi tests.
Date: November 7, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Bomber]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about Convair's new delta-winged B-58 Hustler, which takes off in its first test flight. Crowds of people gather to watch the craft fly.
Date: November 11, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Photograph of Hollywood Theater slides]

Description: Photograph of a man and a woman on set. The woman is wearing swimwear and she is seated on a chair. The man is standing and reading from a piece of paper. In front of them, there is a picnic table with dinnerware on it. Behind them, there are fences, plants, and a cut out display of trees. There is a microphone on a boom pole above them. There is a WBAP-TV film camera visible to the right of the image.
Date: November 9, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Toys]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about toys collected by Fort Worth Boy Scouts. The toys are broken, but they will be repaired by volunteer Convair employees.
Date: November 1, 1956
Duration: 1 minute 23 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Flower arrangements]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about a department store with different flower arrangments in the shape of flags, animals, and other shapes.
Date: November 1, 1956
Duration: 28 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Demos for Ike]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about Democrats gathering at the Stock Show Exhibits building to support Eisenhower's presidency campaign. Governor Allan Shivers makes a speech supporting Eisenhower.
Date: November 2, 1956
Duration: 20 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Antique Show]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about an antique show at the Texas Hotel. The show is one of sixteen annual World Wide Antique shows arranged by Mrs. Ora Slout of Michigan.
Date: November 2, 1956
Duration: 1 minute 02 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Old Vet Honored with Army Medal]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about Walter W. Williams. At age one-hundred-and-thirteen, Williams is the oldest surviving veteran of the Civil War. He receives a medal authorized by the eighty-fourth Congress.
Date: November 2, 1956
Duration: 38 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Basketball]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about drills for ten outstanding Southwest Conference basketball stars. Coaches Doc Hayes of SMU and Don Suman of Rice supervise. Some of the Stars will be selected to play in the Olympic games.
Date: November 4, 1956
Duration: 1 minute 52 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Reverand Louis Hadley Evans]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about Reverand Louis Hadley Evans, a guest speaker, promoting his book Youth Seeks A Master at a church.
Date: November 6, 1956
Duration: 37 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Crime scenes]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about an active crime scene, in the middle of the night. Police and paramedics are responding to a homicide and found a firearm on the ground.
Date: November 6, 1956
Duration: 50 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: B-58 bomber makes another test run]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about Convair's new B-58 bomber. Onlookers have been gathering in hopes of watching the first test run, but so far the plane has only made taxi tests.
Date: November 7, 1956
Duration: 1 minute 39 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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