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[News Script: Dallas Council]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a Dallas city council meeting. A policy that only allows lawn watering between 8 p.m. and 8 a.m. is adopted. Mrs. Addie B. Frazier also demands city buses force segregation of whites and blacks.
Date: July 2, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Segregation Suit]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a hearing on a suit to force the Dallas Transit Company to reinstall segregation signs.
Date: October 9, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Russell]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about Jane and Bob Russell visiting the Merchandise Mart. They visit Dallas to promote the film "Run for the Sun."
Date: July 25, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Negro Kid]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about an unclaimed boy found at the Dallas bus station after arriving from Austin, Texas. The mother was late to pick him up and the boy was already in custody, they were reunited shortly after.
Date: December 23, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Buses]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the desegregation of Dallas city buses after a Supreme Court ruling.
Date: April 25, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Vehicles Stuck in Flood Water]

Description: Photograph of three commercial vehicles stuck in the flood waters from Detroit's worst flood in 1957. In the image the bus driver is sticking his body out the driver window, another man sits on top his truck's cabin, while the other crouches on top the container of his truck. More vehicles can be seen being held back by a police car from the rising waters.
Date: July 22, 1957
Creator: Clark, Joe
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Vehicles Stuck in Flood Water]

Description: Photograph of three commercial vehicles stuck in the flood waters from Detroit's worst flood in 1957. In the image the bus driver is sticking his body out the driver window, another man sits on top his truck's cabin, while the other crouches on top the container of his truck. More vehicles can be seen being held back by a police car from the rising waters.
Date: July 22, 1957
Creator: Clark, Joe
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Coe]

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.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Award]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about bus driver John D. Hearon receiving three awards from the Department of Public Safety and the American Motorist Insurance Company for saving the lives of his passengers during a blizzard.
Date: June 29, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Trestle]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the dismantling of the Dallas streetcar viaduct, as the city's streetcars are replaced with buses.
Date: April 12, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Applewhite inducted]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about Charlie Applewhite, television singer from Fort Worth, being inducted into the Army after being drafted.
Date: March 26, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Bus accident]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a Dallas city bus spinning out of control on wet streets during a rainstorm and striking the wall of an underpass. Three of the eight passengers aboard suffered minor injuries, along with the driver.
Date: May 31, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Chisholm Trail]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about two buses from San Antonio stopping by Fort Worth on their way to a tour of the Chisholm Trail.
Date: May 2, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Buses]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about Dallas and Fort Worth continuing to segregate buses as usual despite the recent Supreme Court ruling which outlawed racial segregation on city buses.
Date: April 24, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Disputed school vote canvassed]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about Judge Lew Sterrett canvassing an election that abolished the Farmers Branch school district.
Date: May 4, 1954
Duration: 1 minute 44 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Four injured in car bus crash]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about a car colliding with a bus; four were injured in the accident.
Date: June 15, 1954
Duration: 56 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Lineup]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about Dallas homicide detectives conducting a lineup to strengthen their case against two suspects involved in the robbery-murder of a bus driver.
Date: October 4, 1958
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Council]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a Dallas city council meeting where members voted to increase bus fairs.
Date: November 23, 1959
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Bus shooting]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about an unknown assailant firing on a Continental Bus.
Date: August 8, 1959
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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