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[News Clip: Rylie School Dispute]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story about County Judge Lew Sterrett ruling on when citizens of Rylie, Texas, may vote on the fate of their school district. The video shows several people gathered in the courtroom.
Date: August 8, 1956
Duration: 1 minute 02 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Hyer]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about Julien Hyer being picked to serve as a county judge.
Date: August 27, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Rylie School Dispute]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about County Judge Lew Sterrett ruling on when citizens of Rylie, Texas, may vote on the fate of their school district.
Date: August 8, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Delay]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about I. R. Conner and his charges for swindling an elderly Missouri woman for a large sum of money in a phony medical scheme. He has won, for the time being, his desire to prevent his extradition to Missouri to face those charges.
Date: July 12, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Sexton]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the coming trial of eighteen-year-old Frank Sexton Jr.. Sexton is accused of beating and raping a woman with three other youths. The state is expected to ask for the death penalty.
Date: July 23, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Judge Resigns Amid Appointment Rumors]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the resignation of Dallas County Criminal Judge Joe B. Brown. The resignation comes in the midst of dozens of courthouse rumors concerning the appointment of his successor.
Date: December 10, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Dickens]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the formal sentencing of Raymond Seymour Dickens, a convicted rapist. He receives a ninety-nine year prison sentence.
Date: July 30, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Hearing postponed on medical charges]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about I. R. Conner, who is fighting demands of Leonard Davis, sheriff of Osage County, Missouri, that Conner return to the state to face charges of swindling. The state alleges that Conner swindled an elderly woman out of one-thousand-and-three-hundred dollars by professing to know a cure for cataracts.
Date: July 11, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Pruitt denied new trial]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about eighteen-year-old Bennie Pruitt asking to be spared of his five-year prison sentence. He was found to have taken part in a robbery and beating of two men, which resulted in their death. Judge McGee says that the original verdict must stand.
Date: July 20, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Trial]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the trial of Eugene Sanders Hague. He has been indicted for the August 26 fatal shooting of Ernest Charles Allbrite.
Date: December 12, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Politics]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the democratic primary election, for which the polls open tomorrow. Several politicians hope to win positions as governor or in the state senate, among others.
Date: July 27, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Rapists]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about two fifteen-year-old boys charged with the rape and beating of a young couple. The boys are William Eason and Donald Mitchell. The youths are sentenced to confinement at the Gatesville State School for Boys until they turn twenty-one.
Date: July 19, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Gann trial]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the murder trial of Charles Edwin Gann, who was accused of shooting an 18-year-old airman. Gann was found guilty and given a life sentence.
Date: April 30, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: News briefs -- wedding]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a wedding between a Dallas convict and a woman he previously divorced, after his arrest for abandoning his child support payments.
Date: June 8, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Mrs. Lee seeks new site for trial]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about proceedings in the murder trial of Mrs. Elsie Mae Lee, a Dallas woman accused of murdering her dentist husband. Mrs. Lee requests that her trial be relocated to another county, citing negative publicity.
Date: May 14, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Counting bandit]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about Laverne Lighter pleading guilty to six armed robberies throughout the Fort Worth area.
Date: March 19, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Babb trial]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV television station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story about the trial of Bobby Gene Babb, a Dallas man charged with maiming a former Dallas policeman after striking him in the eye with his handcuffs during an arrest.
Date: May 28, 1956
Duration: 46 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Grand Jury]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about two grand juries operating simultaneously in Dallas for the first time in several years.
Date: March 26, 1956
Duration: 1 minute 09 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Houston sentenced to electric chair]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about Billy Joe Houston, a man convicted of sexually assaulting a woman, receiving the death penalty.
Date: March 27, 1956
Duration: 1 minute 48 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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