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[News Script: Trailer fire]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a trailer fire in Dallas. Elbert Williams Crocker was killed.
Date: October 24, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: News briefs; Jet Tanks; Fire; Westover Hills]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering three news stories. The first story is about two tanks that fell from a military jet plane into the yards of Dallas homeowners. Next is a story about a fire that started in a Fort Worth garage, causing no injuries. The final story is about the impending expansion of Fort Worth suburb Westover Hills. New homes will be built on newly acquired land.
Date: July 13, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Alligator escapes, spoils VFW gesture]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about an alligator that was meant to be a gift from J. T. Lindenberg of the Dallas chapter of Veterans of Foreign Wars. The alligator was meant to be donated to the James R. Record Aquarium in Fort Worth, but it fell out of the car in which it was being transported and was hit by another vehicle.
Date: July 15, 1956
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 rumor in a Fort Worth neighborhood that a home in a white neighborhood had been sold to African Americans. Neighbors protested until the rumor was found to not be true.
Date: October 25, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Driverless truck slams into house]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a delivery truck that smashed into the house of E. M. Brewster in Oak Cliff. The emergency brake on the truck failed, causing it to reverse into the home.
Date: July 20, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Accident]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about damage to a home that was caused by a truck that came loose from a pickup truck towing it. Occupants of the house included Mrs. Jim Odom, her infant son, and Mrs. L. V. Giles.
Date: July 10, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Orphan]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about Jackie Chambers, a three-year-old Korean boy who was recently adopted by Floyd Chambers and his wife.
Date: July 4, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Hagler]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about Mrs. Elisabeth Bergmann Hagler, wife of David Fred Hagler, key figure in an Oklahoma torch-murder. Mrs. Hagler divorces her husband in a short hearing at the Tarrant County Courthouse.
Date: July 24, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Irving School]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about W. T. Hanes becoming the new Irving school superintendent during a time of strife within the administration.
Date: July 1, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Fire]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a fire that damaged four homes under construction in Arlington. The houses were being built for Happiness Homes Incorporated.
Date: July 10, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Fires]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about three overnight fires. One fire killed a man, Richard J. MacMahon. Another fire broke out in Dallas city hall.
Date: October 7, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Weather]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a storm destroying a new home owned by W. R. Ellis.
Date: July 6, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Carpenters at work as house is moved]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a Fort Worth builder's association remodeling an old home as a gift to a local family who lost their house and possessions in a fire.
Date: May 4, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Butler]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a Dallas man on trial for murder after his wife is discovered with her throat slashed on the kitchen floor of their home.
Date: March 13, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: News briefs -- fire]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a fire at two unoccupied houses in Dallas. Both homes are burned to the ground with no injuries.
Date: April 8, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: House built in one day]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a Fort Worth prefabricated home company constructing a three-bedroom house in one day as a publicity stunt.
Date: May 9, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: House]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a family whose house was lost to a fire getting a new home courtesy of the Home Builders Association of Fort Worth.
Date: May 20, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Housewife]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about Mrs. W. R. Ratliff traveling to Washington as one of 100 women chosen to give the nation's housing experts their opinions on matters concerning housing.
Date: April 10, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Newton]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a large wooden mock yacht removed by court order from the yard of an eccentric resident of the Highland Park neighborhood, Mrs. Cosette F. Newton.
Date: April 19, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Builder]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about Roy Wise, who helped repair the home of Mr. and Mrs. Sammy Cobb, a blind couple in Fort Worth. Their house was crashed into by a runaway car with a driver who could not pay for the damages.
Date: February 8, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: City Council]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about complaints of Lake Worth residents about Fort Worth property leases being heard by the Fort Worth City Council.
Date: April 4, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Fire]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a fire destroying a home in Dallas. An occupant of the home suffered burns, but is in good condition.
Date: April 15, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Fires]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a fire at a Grand Prairie boat company and a second fire at an apartment in Oak Cliff. Neither fire resulted in injuries.
Date: March 21, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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