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[News Script: SDX]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the newspaperman of the year party, held by the Sigma Delta Chi fraternity. Ethel Solomon, a student at Texas State College for Women, is given a two-year journalism scholarship. Ed M. Pooley, editor of the El Paso Herald, wins the newspaperman of the year award.
Date: October 6, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Blind Columnist to Address Convention]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about Victor Riesel, a newspaper columnist, who was blinded earlier this year by a youth who threw acid at him. He arrives in Dallas on his way to Fort Worth, where he will address the Texas Manufacturers Association's thirty-fourth annual conference.
Date: November 12, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Trailer yields no clues to ex-cons]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about police searching for Edward Eugene Townley, Betty Jo Townley, and Wilbur Jay Hunt. A gang member and ex-convict, Townley bought a trailer on credit, but doesn't seem to have lived there for nearly a month.
Date: July 12, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Newspaper Election Coverage]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the Fort Worth Star-Telegram and its work to gather and report election results.
Date: July 29, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Final Rites Held for James M. North]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about funeral services for James M. North, editor of the Fort Worth Star-Telegram. He passed away at the age of seventy.
Date: October 18, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Florence finally receives award]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a Dallas Press Club award presented late to Republic National Bank President Fred Florence, who missed the original ceremony.
Date: May 10, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Grand Jurors Hear Radio Announcer]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about Dick Smith, a radio announcer for KCUL, presenting the Tarrant County grand jury with what he believes to be evidence supporting Laredo Times publisher William Prescott Allen.
Date: February 24, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Publisher jailed in gambling probe]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the jailing of William Prescott Allen, publisher of the Laredo Times, for false charges of gambling and bribe taking against Fort Worth police officers.
Date: February 21, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Grand Jury quizzes newsman on gaming]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about an editorial in the Laredo Times, which charged a group of police officers with taking payoffs on vice and gambling in Fort Worth. A subpoena has been issues for the Laredo Times publisher, William Prescot Allen, because the charges are apparently unfounded.
Date: February 16, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Allen out of jail, city bans pinballs]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the continued trial of William Prescott Allen, publisher of the Laredo Times, which ran an editorial charging Fort Worth police with rampant gambling and taking bribes.
Date: February 22, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Boxing]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the Golden Gloves boxing tournament in Fort Worth.
Date: February 17, 1957
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Carter funeral]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about funeral services for Amon G. Carter, prominent Fort Worth newspaper publisher, philanthropist, and owner of the WBAP-TV station.
Date: June 26, 1955
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Record given NCCJ award]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a meeting of the Fort Worth National Congress of Christians and Jews, an interfaith organization, to present a service award to James R. Record, managing editor of the Fort Worth Star-Telegram.
Date: March 12, 1954
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Amateur circus closes career]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the final performance of the Gainesville community circus in Plano after 25 successful seasons.
Date: October 8, 1954
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Nathan Adams]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a luncheon of the Dallas Press Club honoring Dallas banker Nathan Adams.
Date: February 11, 1955
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Paper boy]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a teenage paper boy coming back to Fort Worth after a 10-day trip to Spain and Portugal, his prize for winning a new newspaper subscriber contest.
Date: April 13, 1958
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: United Fund Texas news]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the United Fund holding its annual report meeting and award ceremony in Fort Worth, Texas.
Date: October 28, 1959
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Newspaper]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the Daily Commercial Record in Dallas.
Date: March 28, 1959
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Paper shredder]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about two twin brothers starting a business in Dallas.
Date: March 8, 1959
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Harte-Hanks]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about Hart-Hank newspaper being cleared of anti-trust charges.
Date: January 21, 1959
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Photographers name Chicago girl queen]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the National Press Photographers Association's 10th annual convention in Colorado Springs, Colorado selecting their beauty queen.
Date: June 12, 1955
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Munro]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about one of Fort Worth's most personable '"landmarks," 50 year old newspaper seller Munro Odom who has been selling papers since he was 5 years old.
Date: September 24, 1957
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: SDX hears price winning newswoman]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a speech in Fort Worth by Pulitzer-winning newswoman Mrs. Caro Brown.
Date: June 17, 1955
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Photogs]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a new bill approved by the Texas Senate increasing penalties against assaults on news photographers, in order to reduce the frequency of such incidents.
Date: April 6, 1955
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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