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[News Clip: Jury Being chosen for assault trial]

Description: Video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story about the beginning of jury selection in Dallas, Texas, for the trial of Joseph D'Angelo of Brooklyn, New York, accused of raping an 11-year-old Dallas girl on 4 February 1956.
Date: September 10, 1956
Duration: 1 minute 02 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Jury being chosen for assault trial]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the beginning of jury selection in Dallas, Texas, for the trial of Joseph D'Angelo of Brooklyn, New York, accused of raping an 11-year-old Dallas girl on 4 February 1956.
Date: September 10, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Delay]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about I. R. Conner and his charges for swindling an elderly Missouri woman for a large sum of money in a phony medical scheme. He has won, for the time being, his desire to prevent his extradition to Missouri to face those charges.
Date: July 12, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Bigamist's wives become friends]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about Harold Thetford, who left his first wife and later married another woman. The first wife, Bobbie Mae, found out that her husband had married again and called the new wife, Ima Hattie. Both women became friends.
Date: July 12, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Sexton]

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.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Commissioners]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the voted pay raise from the commissioners to the works in comparison to the commissioners themselves.
Date: December 18, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Water Council Story]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about complaints that Fort Worth has not seen much rain. Improvements to the water system are mentioned.
Date: July 25, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Dogs]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a meeting of Dallas county commissioners on how to get rid of the county's rabid dogs. J. M. Pickard presents a potential solution, but not everyone agrees with his ideas. A decision will be made at a later date.
Date: July 23, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Dickens]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the formal sentencing of Raymond Seymour Dickens, a convicted rapist. He receives a ninety-nine year prison sentence.
Date: July 30, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Hearing postponed on medical charges]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about I. R. Conner, who is fighting demands of Leonard Davis, sheriff of Osage County, Missouri, that Conner return to the state to face charges of swindling. The state alleges that Conner swindled an elderly woman out of one-thousand-and-three-hundred dollars by professing to know a cure for cataracts.
Date: July 11, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Pruitt denied new trial]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about eighteen-year-old Bennie Pruitt asking to be spared of his five-year prison sentence. He was found to have taken part in a robbery and beating of two men, which resulted in their death. Judge McGee says that the original verdict must stand.
Date: July 20, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Tarrant Commissioners]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the construction of new wings to the Tarrant county courthouse. County commissioners decided to add the new wings rather than build a separate site.
Date: July 23, 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: Rapists]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about two fifteen-year-old boys charged with the rape and beating of a young couple. The boys are William Eason and Donald Mitchell. The youths are sentenced to confinement at the Gatesville State School for Boys until they turn twenty-one.
Date: July 19, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

Airplane Flying

Description: Negative of an airplane flying over Odessa, Texas during a military parade in 1956. The building on the left side of the picture is the Ector County courthouse.
Date: 1956
Partner: Permian Basin Petroleum Museum, Library and Hall of Fame

[News Script: Suspects]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about three men suspected of robbing a Fort Worth food market turning themselves over to police custody.
Date: May 31, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: News briefs -- Women Jurors]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about an all-women juror in the trial of Mrs. Dorothy White, who got into an altercation with her sisters-in-law when chickens wouldn't respect a fence and scratched it. The women juror has yet to decide a verdict.
Date: June 13, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Clerk retiring]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the celebration of the retirement of Hal Craddock, Dallas County's oldest employee.
Date: March 30, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Gann trial]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the murder trial of Charles Edwin Gann, who was accused of shooting an 18-year-old airman. Gann was found guilty and given a life sentence.
Date: April 30, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Hagler trial]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the trial of David Fred Hagler, who was accused of murder, coming to a close with the jury finding him not guilty.
Date: April 20, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Employees]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the retirements of two court clerks, J. D. Shelton and Dorothy Knight, at the Dallas county courthouse. One party, held for Shelton, is inside the courtroom of Judge Grover Hart Junior. The second party, for Knight, was held inside the county clerk's office space.
Date: June 29, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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