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[News Clip: B-58]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about news cameramen and other onlookers gathering at the Convair plant in Fort Worth. They hope to see the first flight of the B-58 bomber.
Date: October 31, 1956
Duration: 28 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
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[News Clip: Old employee]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about ninety-three-year-old George W. Parker, Fort Worth's Federal District Court Clerk. He ends his sixty-one year career with the final official act of logging in a district court suit. Parker is retiring due to a new federal law, which sets the retirement age at seventy.
Date: October 31, 1956
Duration: 33 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)

[News Script: B-58]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about news cameramen and other onlookers gathering at the Convair plant in Fort Worth. They hope to see the first flight of the B-58 bomber.
Date: October 31, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)

[News Script: City Council]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a Dallas City Council meeting, where the sale of six-and-a-half-million dollars worth of bonds is approved. The bonds are for improvement to Love Field, including the addition of a new terminal. The Fort Worth City Council meets to discuss issues on the city's water supply. The council approves of a plan which would create two reservoirs near Corsicana.
Date: October 31, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)

[News Script: Curtis Injury Minor]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about Chuck Curtis, the Quarterback for the TCU Horned Frogs. He suffered a minor kidney injury, but is expected to play in the upcoming game against Baylor.
Date: October 31, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)

[News Script: Old employee]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about ninety-three-year-old George W. Parker, Fort Worth's Federal District Court Clerk. He ends his sixty-one year career with the final official act of logging in a district court suit. Parker is retiring due to a new federal law, which sets the retirement age at seventy.
Date: October 31, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)

[News Script: Robberies]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about Benjamin Henry Pruitt, a student at Polytechnic High School, admitting to three armed robberies. Pruitt was free on bond, after his five-year prison sentence for murder was overturned.
Date: October 31, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)

[News Script: Waples-Platter Hijacking]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a forty-year-old man robbing five-hundred dollars from the Waples-Platter wholesale company. Arial Smith and Dillard Ames recount the events.
Date: October 31, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
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[News Clip: Tornado, Parade, Baseball]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story about a tornado and severe weather in Cleburne, Midlothian, and Britton, and the damage that was sustained, a carnival to be held at the Fair Park Foods Building in Dallas, Texas, as a fund raising project for the National Polio Foundation, and a dinner honoring two Texas League baseball players who set and broke the home run record.
Date: August 31, 1956
Duration: 5 minutes 34 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)

[News Script: Baseball]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a dinner honoring two Texas League baseball players who set and broke the home run record.
Date: August 31, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)

[News Script: Tornado]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a tornado and severe weather in Cleburne, Midlothian, and Britton, and the damage that was sustained.
Date: August 31, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
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[News Clip: Dogs]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a quarantine for dogs in Fort Worth. The quarantine is a result of an increase in rabies cases.
Date: July 31, 1956, 10:00 p.m.
Duration: 2 minutes 06 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
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[News Clip: Ice]

Description: Video footage from tthe WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a contest by Reemaire conditioning. The contest entails people guessing when a forty-ton block of ice will melt.
Date: July 31, 1956
Duration: 2 minutes 04 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)

[News Script: Dogs]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a quarantine for dogs in Fort Worth. The quarantine is a result of an increase in rabies cases.
Date: July 31, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)

[News Script: Ice]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a contest by Reemaire conditioning. The contest entails people guessing when a forty-ton block of ice will melt.
Date: July 31, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)

[News Script: Moccasins]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about moccasins, which are made in Fort Worth and sold in Arizona. Nat Rakoover owns the Texas Sandal and Moccasin Company, which makes the shoes.
Date: July 31, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
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[News Clip: Cassidy trial]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV television station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story about the trial of former Fort Worth policeman Tex Cassidy, accused of theft after writing several fraudulent checks. Cassidy is declared innocent by the jury.
Date: May 31, 1956
Duration: 1 minute 33 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
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[News Clip: Explosion and fire wreck pastor's home]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV television station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story about an explosion and fire destroying a parsonage at the Oak View Baptist Church in Fort Worth, caused by a flammable chemical spray county employees were using inside the house to exterminate insects. No one was injured in the blast, but the residence was completely destroyed.
Date: May 31, 1956
Duration: 1 minute 43 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
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[News Clip: Fort Worth pools to be opened Saturday]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV television station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story about the Fort Worth recreation board turning down a request by the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People to racially integrate pool facilities in the city.
Date: May 31, 1956
Duration: 2 minutes 28 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
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