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[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

[News Script: Tease]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, showing teasers for news stories about a courthouse gas pump and Ron Clower campaigning.
Date: January 2, 1973
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Kerr to Doug]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about the Dallas Commissioner Court hearing a proposal for the restructuring of the state's inferior courts.
Date: August 24, 1972, 12:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Dallas council]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about the Dallas City Council going on record in support of the dealth penalty in specific areas.
Date: July 10, 1972, 6:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Haynie Bell]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about the retirement party for Mrs. Haynie Bell Lloyd at the Tarrant County courthouse.
Date: June 9, 1972, 6:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Job counselor]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about a former job counselor for the Fort Worth public school system getting serveda 10-year probated prison sentence for illegal possession of marijuana.
Date: October 19, 1972, 6:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Gross trial]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about testimonies ending in the Lawrence Gross murder trial.
Date: June 21, 1972, 6:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: County clerk investigated]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about the Tarrant County clerk's office being investigated by a Commissioners Court of Inquiry for reports of kickbacks, an illegal flower fund and an office lottery.
Date: July 25, 1972, 12:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Tease]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering teasers of news stories about Grassroots Incorporated and technology in the Tarrant County courthouse.
Date: October 9, 1972
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Shooting Eastland]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about a constable being shot and wounded during a recess of a trial at the Eastland County Courthouse.
Date: July 24, 1972, 6:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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