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[News Script: Hijacking]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about Dallas escaped convict James Skinner robbing a cafeteria in the city. The fugitive is still at large.
Date: February 17, 1957
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Government workers meet]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a meeting of government workers in Dallas to discuss collective bargaining options for higher wages.
Date: February 17, 1957
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Commissioners]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about Dallas county commissioners shaving $60,000 off the proposed $11,806,000 budget.
Date: February 14, 1957
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Fireworks]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a fourth of July fireworks display at the Cotton Bowl in Dallas.
Date: July 4, 1957
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Cage]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about an appearance by Fort Worth businessman Ben Jack Cage at a meeting of the company he formerly ran, until he was accused from embezzling from the firm. Cage says the charges against him are false and proposes a new financial strategy for the company.
Date: December 7, 1957
Duration: 4 minutes 57 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: School gets $20,000 for new microscope]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about Dallas' Southwestern Medical School receiving $20,000 from the Damon Runyon Cancer Fund for a new television microscope.
Date: March 1, 1957
Duration: 1 minute 31 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Hagler in mill again]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about David Fred Hagler, freshly acquitted of murder, accusing someone of swindling him of money he put into a night club, while he was in prison.
Date: March 1, 1957
Duration: 50 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Gun totin' woman sought in robbery]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about Fort Worth Police looking for a man and woman who robbed the Pete Brewer Beer Distributing Company at gunpoint.
Date: March 19, 1957
Duration: 1 minute 49 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Curtailed Postal Service ordered]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about Postal Service being curtailed for one day in Dallas and Fort Worth due to budget cutbacks.
Date: April 12, 1957
Duration: 2 minutes 10 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Hearing]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about a hearing to determine the motivation behind a $2,000 payment from the president of the Estate Life Insurance Company to a state insurance liquidator in Texas.
Date: December 19, 1957
Duration: 4 minutes 49 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Robbery]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about a service station robbery in Fort Worth.
Date: December 24, 1957
Duration: 54 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Milk war hearing]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about a hearing in Dallas by a U.S. House sub-committee on Small Business, investigating complaints that two local dairies engaged in price-fixing to force smaller dairies from the market.
Date: December 30, 1957
Duration: 2 minutes 20 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Burleson group protests higher school taxes]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about a dispute in the small town of Cleburne over property value increases resulting in higher taxes on school bonds.
Date: June 25, 1957
Duration: 2 minutes 25 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Banks]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about the State Bank of East Fort Worth being the victim of an attempted robbery.
Date: April 28, 1957
Duration: 1 minute 06 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Brazos still rising; federal aid ordered]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about the worst flood in the state's history, with President Eisenhower declaring affected parts of Texas a disaster area and pledging federal funding to disaster relief.
Date: April 29, 1957
Duration: 1 minute 34 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Colonial]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about the 12th annual National Invitational Golf Tournament in Fort Worth.
Date: April 29, 1957
Duration: 1 minute 46 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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