Description:
Video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering two news stories. The first is about the Sanger Parade at the annual community fair. The second story is about prisoners donating blood in exchange for shorter sentences.
Date:
August 23, 1956
Duration:
2 minutes 23 seconds
Creator:
WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Description:
Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about John Edward Gravenmier attempting to pass hacksaw blades to cellmates when he was released for probation.
Date:
September 30, 1956
Creator:
WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Description:
Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about prisoners donating pints of blood in exchange for having a week of time removed from their sentences.
Date:
August 23, 1956
Creator:
WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Description:
Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about eighteen-year-old George Palmer. He escaped from Palo Pinto jail last week, and he has been returned to Fort Worth.
Date:
December 11, 1956
Creator:
WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
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.)
Description:
Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about Betty Barry accidentally killing "Chicken" Louie Ferrantello, an ex-gambler, in Dallas. Barry says that she wanted to shoot herself, but Ferrantello tried to take the gun away from her. She fired at him during the struggle.
Date:
July 18, 1956
Creator:
WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Description:
Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a case in which four young men beat and assaulted a couple that was parked on a road. The couple identifies the four men who took part in the crimes from a police lineup. The young men are Bill Eason, Frank Sexton, Donald Mitchell, and James Barrett.
Date:
July 11, 1956
Creator:
WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Description:
Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about two young men being questioned about beatings to four men inside a jail cell. The men in question are Robert Lee Campbell and Sonny Evans.
Date:
July 17, 1956
Creator:
WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Description:
Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about Clarence Wesley "Sonny" Evans, a nineteen-year-old son of a Edell Evans, an ex-convict. He is being released from jail, where he was being held on charges of rape and pandering.
Date:
July 5, 1956
Creator:
WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Description:
Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the retirement of an eccentric deaf-mute shoe shiner at the Fort Worth police headquarters, Ollie Tribue.
Date:
May 11, 1956
Creator:
WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Description:
Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about two sisters, Nancy Disney and Mary Alice Nast, being arrested because Mary helped Nancy and two men burglarize the place where Mary works.
Date:
May 25, 1956
Creator:
WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Description:
Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about Clarence "Sonny" Wesley Evans' reflection about his arrest and the criminal history of his father, Edell Evans. Sonny denies the charges of statutory rape against him and explains, when he is out of jail, that he will have to leave Fort Worth and the history of his father behind.
Date:
June 29, 1956
Creator:
WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Description:
Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about Ellis Jackson Martin facing arraignment on charges of attempted bank robbery.
Date:
April 12, 1956
Creator:
WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Description:
Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about jury selection in the trial of Charles John Butler, a Dallas man accused of murdering his wife.
Date:
April 16, 1956
Creator:
WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Description:
Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about three men arrested in Fort Worth while trying to crack a safe at a grocery store.
Date:
March 5, 1956
Creator:
WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Description:
Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a verdict in the trial of Bobby Joe Babb, a Dallas man accused of blinding a police officer after striking him in the face with handcuffs during his arrest. Babb is found guilty and sentenced to five years in prison.
Date:
May 30, 1956
Creator:
WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Description:
Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the arrest of Dallas County convict Lonnie Coe after he escaped from jail and fled to Fort Worth.
Date:
June 7, 1956
Creator:
WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Description:
Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the trial of Fort Worth ex-convict Bobby Lott, after stabbing a man at a local tavern. Lott is sentenced to two years in prison.
Date:
April 17, 1956
Creator:
WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Description:
Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a statewide awareness campaign by the Texas Prison Board to call attention to the growing financial needs of the state prison system.
Date:
April 13, 1956
Creator:
WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Description:
Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about Fort Worth councilmen scrutinizing the amount of food given to prisoners.
Date:
March 30, 1956
Creator:
WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Description:
Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about Fort Worth tavern owner Homer Chokas being sentenced to 30 days in jail for allegedly making payoffs on a pinball machine in his tavern.
Date:
May 17, 1956
Creator:
WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Description:
Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the questioning of arrested safe-cracker Paul Mannes. Mannes was captured in a farmhouse near Azle, Texas, the farmhouse is a known safe zone for safe-cracker criminals. The raid that captures Mannes was meant to catch more, however, Mannes refuses to name any accomplices.
Date:
June 29, 1956
Creator:
WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
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.)
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