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[News Script: Dummy Hanging at Mansfield Probed]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the hanging of a red paint splattered, straw-stuffed dummy in effigy of an African American man in Mansfield, Texas, in response to the federal desegregation order demanding Mansfield admit thirteen African American students to its high school.
Date: August 29, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: The Week in Review]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering the December 15-22 weekly review. The six stories include a the establishment of a new athletic conference, a church burglary, rape-murder investigations ending with a confession, a hot-check investigation involving a bank and attorney, commissioners raising their pay, and a court battle resulting in Dallas schools staying segregated.
Date: December 22, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Segregation]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about Federal District Judge WIlliam H. Atwell denying the injunction to allow desegregation in Dallas Public Schools.
Date: December 19, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Noise]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a hearing in a Dallas District Court for a suit for damages and an injunction brought by 31 Dallas county home owners against Southwest Airmotive because of the noise from the jet engine testing plant near Carter Field.
Date: March 15, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Ashby]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about federal charges filed against Bert G. Ashby, a Dallas disbarred criminal lawyer suspected of tax fraud.
Date: March 9, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Grand Jurors will Probe Trust Firm]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a probe into the defunct U.S. Trust and Guaranty Company by the new Tarrant County Grand Jury.
Date: January 6, 1956
Duration: 2 minutes 27 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Atlas Corporation Claims Bankruptcy]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the American Atlas Corporation, owned by Joe A. Irwin, deciding to declare bankruptcy.
Date: January 17, 1956
Duration: 1 minute 17 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Irwin]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a federal bankruptcy petition filed by officers of the American Atlas Corporation and the Joe Irwin Real Estate Company. The state attorney requested that the case be dismissed, but Federal Judge Davidson refused.
Date: January 24, 1956
Duration: 1 minute 13 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: New Suspect in Bank Robbery]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV television station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story about James Arlington Debenham, who is arraigned on charges of participating in the robbery of the Richland State Bank in Kansas. It is also determined that Joe Herbert Hoskins, a previous suspect, is declared to have not taken part in the robbery.
Date: February 10, 1956
Duration: 1 minute 30 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Ashby]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about federal charges filed against Bert G. Ashby, a Dallas disbarred criminal lawyer suspected of tax fraud.
Date: March 9, 1956
Duration: 1 minute 07 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: The Week In Review]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story covering the December 15-22 weekly review. The six stories include a the establishment of a new athletic conference, a church burglary, rape-murder investigations ending with a confession, a hot-check investigation involving a bank and attorney, commissioners raising their pay, and a court battle resulting in Dallas schools staying segregated.
Date: December 22, 1956
Duration: 5 minutes 08 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Trial]

Description: Video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story about a trial in the 44th district court in Dallas. The trial surrounded a conflict between the Hubbell-Hubbard construction firm and the Dallas Housing Authority. The construction firm was awarded 860 thousand dollars as settlement.
Date: August 3, 1956
Duration: 1 minute 30 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Swindle]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about Murray Jeremiah Cohn and Russell Freeman Cumpe. Both men are charged with using interstate wire for fraudulent purposes.
Date: October 17, 1956
Duration: 1 minute 08 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Extortion plot]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about Lloyd C. Crum, who is taken to arraignment on charges of attempting to extort money from a Weatherford feed supply dealer.
Date: October 27, 1956
Duration: 1 minute 49 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Bandits are held, woman is rewarded]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about the arraignment of two men arrested for the robbery of a bank in Fort Worth. A housewife who recognized one of robbers from his police description and reported him to authorities receives a cash reward from the bank's president.
Date: March 16, 1956
Duration: 3 minutes
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Escape Artist is Given More Time]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV television station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story about Leonard J. Williams, who has escaped from law enforcement officers thirteen times. He receives five more years in prison, in addition to the 27-year term he is currently serving.
Date: January 13, 1956
Duration: 1 minute 15 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Hoskins Must Face Trial in Robbery]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV television station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story about Herbert Hoskins going before the United States Commissioner to face the Kansas couple he is accused of helping rob on January 2nd. Hoskins is charged with robbing the Richland State Bank, operated by former United States Treasurer Georgia Neese Gray and her husband.
Date: February 7, 1956
Duration: 2 minutes 13 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Segregation]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about Federal District Judge WIlliam H. Atwell denying the injunction to allow desegregation in Dallas Public Schools.
Date: December 19, 1956
Duration: 34 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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