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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: 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

[Photo of people around a Christmas tree]

Description: Photograph of a group of people gathered around a Christmas tree on a desk. They are posing for the camera. One of the men appears to be talking on the phone. Everyone is dressed in formal attire. There is a clock against the wall. In the background, there is an open door and a coat rack with a hat on it. There is a display of newspapers in the foreground.
Date: 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Photograph of people around a Christmas tree]

Description: Photograph of a group of people gathered around a Christmas tree on a desk. They are posing for the camera. Everyone is dressed in formal attire. There is a clock against the wall. In the background, there is an open door and a coat rack with a hat on it. There is a display of newspapers in the foreground.
Date: 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Catholics]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a parade of Catholics in observance of National Holy Name Sunday.
Date: January 8, 1956
Duration: 57 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
captions transcript

[News Clip: Iron Lung]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about Judy Whitman, a reporter for the Dallas Times-Herald, who experienced living in an iron lung at Parkland Hospital.
Date: January 11, 1956
Duration: 2 minutes 38 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
captions transcript

[News Clip: Jaycees]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the Fort Worth Jaycees, who have started a fundraiser to help diabetic children attend a special summer camp in Gainesville.
Date: January 15, 1956
Duration: 49 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
captions transcript

[News Clip: Hoodlum Freed on California Charge]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about a court hearing for Nick Cascio, where California seeks to extradite him to stand trial for the robbery of a Los Angeles hotel. It is determined by Judge McCormack that there is not enough evidence to prove that Cascio was in California at the time of the robbery.
Date: November 26, 1956
Duration: 1 minute 29 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
captions transcript

[News Clip: News Briefs; Robbery]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about three strong-arm bandits who broke into the home of an elderly man in search of hidden money.
Date: November 27, 1956
Duration: 47 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
captions transcript

[News Clip: Fort Worth Star-Telegram]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV television station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story.
Date: September 30, 1956
Duration: 3 minutes 35 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Trailer yields no clues to ex-cons]

Description: Video footage 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, 10:00 p.m.
Duration: 1 minute 15 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
captions transcript

[News Clip: Young demos]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the Young Democratic Club in Dallas. They have announced their support of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.
Date: October 18, 1956
Duration: 1 minute 32 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
captions transcript

[News Clip: Florence finally receives award]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV television station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany 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
Duration: 42 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
captions transcript

[News Clip: Allen Out of Jail]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV television station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany 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
Duration: 3 minutes 58 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
captions transcript

[News Clip: Grand Jury Quizzes Newsman on Gaming]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV television station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany 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
Duration: 2 minutes 35 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
captions transcript

[News Clip: Pegler]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about Westbrook Pegler, a newspaper columnist, visiting in Dallas on his way to Tucson, Arizona.
Date: January 17, 1956
Duration: 39 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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