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[News Script: City planner]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a luncheon for Dallas businessmen, builders, and architects. Frederick T. Aschman speaks about how the rivalry between Dallas and Fort Worth is damaging the two cities.
Date: July 18, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)

[News Script: Stassen]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about Harold Stassen and his address to the national convention of Key clubs about U.S. disarmament.
Date: July 2, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)

[News Script: Elvis]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about Elvis Presley visiting in Dallas. Jim Murray found Elvis having a bowl of chili inside a restaurant.
Date: October 12, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)

[News Script: WAF Anniversary]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the Women's Air Force becoming eight years old. Women Air Force members from Carswell Air Force Base attended a celebration party.
Date: July 1, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)

[News Script: Cop disarmed]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a search for a negro in Dallas. Police say the man disarmed policeman M. P. Southall.
Date: November 30, 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: Autos]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the Tarrant County Modified Auto Association's custom motorama. The show is sponsored by the police department's youth division.
Date: December 9, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)

[News Script: Beauties]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a reception by Mayor Pro Tem Tarleton and the Miss Fort Worth titlist Doris McCollum. The reception is for Miss Lufkin, Sylvia Alexander.
Date: July 25, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)

[News Script: Kennedy]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the arrival of Lyndon Johnson and John Kennedy at Love Field. Kennedy visits for a three-day tour of the state.
Date: October 25, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)

[News Script: Bank]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a ten-year-anniversary celebration at Riverside State Bank in Fort Worth. Mrs. Lloyd McCollum wins over three-hundred dollars.
Date: December 14, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)

[News Script: Fort Worth joins civil defense test]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about Fort Worth's addition to a massive civil defense drill named "Operation Alert." The scenario for the drill involves a hydrogen bomb attack on Carswell Air Force Base, requiring the evacuation of Fort Worth residents.
Date: July 20, 1956, 10:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)

[News Script: Dallas University]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a dedication ceremony for the University of Dallas. The school is a co-educational Catholic institution.
Date: December 9, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)

[News Script: Miss Panorama Contest]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a beauty contest to find the new Miss Panorama. The contest is staged by the Home Builders Association of Fort Worth. Ann Wallis wins.
Date: October 20, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)

[News Script: Coke bottles]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a Coca Cola truck that spilled twenty cases of soda when it hit a bump at an intersection in Dallas. Volunteers helped the driver, O. K. Harrison, clean up the mess.
Date: July 11, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)

[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.)
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