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[News Script: Bank closed after suicide of cashier]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a bank cashier found dead of an apparent suicide in Lewisville after the discovery of a $253 thousand shortage at the institution.
Date: January 28, 1955
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Negro shot]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a police investigation of a man shot and killed by an off-duty police detective as he attempted to rob a liquor store in Dallas.
Date: January 21, 1955
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Lost boy]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a widespread search by authorities in Dallas County after a 22-month-old child disappears from the backyard of his home.
Date: June 30, 1955
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Fort Worth school wrecked by vandals]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about severe vandalism at Arlington Heights Elementary School, with thousands of dollars of damage done to classrooms and bathrooms. Police investigate but have yet to apprehend anyone for the crime.
Date: February 13, 1955
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Family of five dies in Dallas tragedy]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about a Dallas ex-convict and U.S. Army veteran murdering his wife and three children before fatally shooting himself inside a drugstore.
Date: December 13, 1955
Duration: 5 minutes 29 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Hagler Again Breed, Trial in January]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about the trial of accused murderer, David F. Hagler of Fort Worth. Hagler was released on a 15-thousand dollar bond until his trial in January.
Date: December 14, 1955
Duration: 2 minutes 10 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Officers test fire "mystery" burp gun]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about Fort Worth law enforcement test firing a German-made submachine gun as part of an investigation of the murder of Panamanian President Jose Remon. The authorities suspect that dead local gangster Tincy Eggleston was hired to assassinate the political figure.
Date: December 22, 1955
Duration: 1 minute 17 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Four arrested in Clark death probe]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about four people being arrested in connection with the two-year-old slaying of William P. Clark.
Date: April 7, 1955
Duration: 4 minutes 11 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Police probe on at Grand Prairie]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about the newly-elected mayor of Grand Prairie, C. R. Sargent, announcing a full-scale probe of the city's police department.
Date: April 10, 1955
Duration: 2 minutes 38 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Killer of police officer is hunted]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about the search for the murderers of Fort Worth police officer Marvin E. Wills.
Date: December 26, 1955
Duration: 4 minutes 14 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Narcotics hearing]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about a senate sub-committee investigating narcotics traffic in Texas holding a hearing in Dallas.
Date: October 20, 1955
Duration: 5 minutes 51 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Narcotics]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about a federal investigation of narcotics-related crimes in Fort Worth by a U.S. Senate committee.
Date: October 21, 1955
Duration: 5 minutes 29 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Senate agricultural hearings]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about a U.S. Senate Agriculture Committee hearing in Fort Worth, discussing problems facing Texas farmers and the state of the local agricultural economy.
Date: November 6, 1955
Duration: 3 minutes 07 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Negro to seek money without NAACP aid]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a Dallas man discovering a large sum of money while digging a sewer ditch under a house in the city, and subsequently being arrested by local police who believed he had stolen the money.
Date: October 13, 1955
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Murder]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a man's body found beaten to death on a country road in Fort Worth. Two suspects are currently being questioned in the death.
Date: June 19, 1955
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Cops swarm motel to arrest suspect]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about Fort Worth Police raiding a motel in the city to apprehend a Dallas man wanted for questioning in connection with the murder of a gas station attendant.
Date: April 13, 1955
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Miller]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about accused narcotics distributor Johnny Ernest Miller, brother of murdered drug kingpin George Herman Miller, released on bond in Dallas County after being charged with selling heroin to undercover agents.
Date: May 12, 1955
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Dallas man shoots wife, self in cafe]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about a Dallas ex-convict shooting his wife and then turning the gun on himself in a downtown cafe. Both survive the shooting and are taken to Parkland Memorial Hospital.
Date: April 22, 1955
Duration: 1 minute 32 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Charges filed in Clark murder case]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about Leroy "Tincy" Eggleston and Cecil Green being charged with murdering William P. Clark.
Date: April 8, 1955
Duration: 2 minutes 37 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Tip launches hunt for body of Evans]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about the ongoing search for the body of Tarrant County ex-convict Edell Evans.
Date: April 10, 1955
Duration: 42 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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