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[News Script: Ownership of $700 is established]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a dispute over the ownership of $700 discovered on the side of the road in Dallas by a hitchhiker, who delivered the money to local police.
Date: January 6, 1955
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[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: News briefs - accident]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a car accident outside of the Oak Cliff section of Dallas. Two people were injured but there were no fatalities.
Date: January 30, 1955
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Protest to grand jury]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a Dallas couple protesting what they considered improper police handling of a burglary before a grand jury.
Date: January 20, 1955
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Probe scheduled in hospital riot]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a state investigation of a riot of 80 black patients at Rusk State Hospital in East Texas. The patients, who claimed they were not being treated fairly, surrendered to authorities nonetheless.
Date: April 17, 1955
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Negroes ask strict enforcement of laws]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about negro leaders in Dallas petitioning local police to increase enforcement efforts against black-on-black crime in the city, saying that officers and newspapers only occupy themselves with black-on-white crimes.
Date: January 21, 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: Patrolman killed]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a speeding car chase that resulted in the death of state highway patrolman Milton D. Brooks of Grand Prairie.
Date: January 2, 1955
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Shepperd]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about Attorney General John Ben Shepperd arriving in Fort Worth to address a banquet of the Tarrant County Medical Society.
Date: January 4, 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: False alarm shooting]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a man falsely reporting to Fort Worth police that he had been shot.
Date: March 16, 1955
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: News briefs]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a runaway horse leading animal control officers on a chase through Fort Worth. The horse is finally recaptured after two hours of pursuit.
Date: February 2, 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

[News Script: News briefs -- accident]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a furniture truck damaged in Fort Worth after an accident caused when the driver misunderstood the directions of a police officer directing traffic. No one was injured in the crash.
Date: February 15, 1955
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Two youths admit school vandalism]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about two teenaged youths surrendering to police and confessing to committing severe vandalism at Fort Worth's Arlington Heights Elementary School.
Date: February 15, 1955
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Thieves]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a Canadian couple who stole 23 hundred dollars from a Winnipeg law office and went to Mexico.
Date: February 16, 1955
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Cops in crash helmets]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about Dallas becoming the first city in the Southwest to make wearing crash helmets a regulation for motorcycle police officers.
Date: February 2, 1955
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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