#wbap

[oldshowbiz]

WBAP-TV - Channel 5

[thefirstthinguc]

Paleozoic local network logos in COLOR!

TV Guide, December 25, 1954.

[bob-the-cemetery-ghost]

I just told you why.

BOB. BOB. BOBBY. BOBERT.

What do you want...?

[twixnmix]

Dolly Parton performing at WBAP's Country Gold 4th anniversary event Arlington Stadium in Arlington, Texas on August 26, 1974.

[friendlessghoul]

[First Clip] WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about comedian Buster Keaton arriving in Dallas to promote "The Buster Keaton Story," a film about his life.

[Transcript] In Dallas, frozen-faced comedian Buster Keaton arrives to put in a plug for--who else--Buster Keaton. Keaton is on tour to tell anyone who'll listen about the new Paramount release, "The Buster Keaton Story" which is the film version of the funny-man's life. In 1955, Buster got himself off a hospital critical list, when a Hollywood screen writer offered him $50,000 for the screen rights to his life story. Our man asked Buster if he ever smiled--and--with a serious look--he replied, "Not when there are cameras around." (May 17, 1957)

[Second Clip] Fort Worth hosting a convention for Sigma Delta Chi, a professional journalism fraternity.

[Transcript] Dead-Pan Comedian Buster Keaton, a guest at the luncheon, finds that Brinkley's hat makes him look like an honest-to-goodness cowboy. But Brinkly admits that Keaton's hat doesn't show him at best advantage. ...Don't' get carried away, Buster. (May 18, 1957)

The book Buster is holding as he's getting off the plane is, The Lion's Share: The Story of an Entertainment Empire by Bosley Crowther (1957). The first book documenting the history of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.

Both clips unfortunately have no sound which is why I added the music.

[elvisvideos]

Footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about people waiting in line in front of the Worth theater for the first Thanksgiving showing of the movie "Love Me Tender." The clip concludes with a shot of the movie screen with the audience cheering at the screen. November 29, 1956

[hooked-on-elvis]

Elvis in Fort Worth, Texas, on January 11, 1958

Incredible footage colorization/restoration by 𝐓𝐇𝐄𝐅𝐈𝐘𝐎𝐔 𝐌𝐎𝐕𝐈𝐄𝐒 on Youtube.

I swear I felt I was watching a modern times interview, like our own time's artists. The original B&W footage is awesome by itself but this restoration is such a fantastic job I just had to share with you right after watching for the first time myself, since the video had been recently updated to Youtube (today, March 7, 2024, actually). I have to add that all that channel's content is fabulous. ♥

I'll share the original footage again, just in case you'd like to watch in B&W and without the music on the background:

Footage uploaded on Youtube channel "Elvis Presley News" | Original source: UNT (University of Texas) Digital Library. On their website: "Creation Information: Bookmark this section WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Texas) January 11, 1958. This video is part of the collection entitled: KXAS-NBC 5 News Collection and was provided by the UNT Libraries Special Collections to the UNT Digital Library, a digital repository hosted by the UNT Libraries."

FOOTAGE INFO:

Elvis was at stopover in Fort Worth, Texas, on his way to Hollywood studios in Los Angeles, to begin filming 'King Creole'. On December 1957 Presley received his draft note from the Army. It's said he cut his sideburns shorter to look different for playing his character in King Creole tho, not because of the army.

In the interview above, there's a moment Elvis is asked about if he was worried cutting his famous sideburns off. He said "If it was a situation they'd cut them off and I never could have them anymore then I would worry about 'em, but I can grow it back."

[dailyunsolvedmysteries]

Who Is ‘Prayer Man’?

On the day of JFK’s assignation, Dave Wiegman and Jimmy Darnell, two of the news cameramen travelling in the motorcade, began filming when they heard gunshots. For several decades, the significance of their two films was thought to lie in their portrayal of the spectators along Elm Street and the cars in the motorcade. More recently, attention has been drawn to the films’ depiction of the doorway of the Texas School Book Depository, and in particular to a previously ignored figure who, according to some observers, may have been Lee Harvey Oswald. In several frames of the two black–and–white news films, a figure is visible in the western corner of the TSBD doorway. From the cameras’ point of view, the figure is standing to the left of the man in the Altgens photograph who has been identified as Billy Lovelady. The figure’s right arm appears to be raised across its chest, which has earned it the name ‘Prayer Man’. The figure is unlikely to have been praying, but it may have its arms crossed, or it may be holding an object up to its chest. Although the figure in the currently available versions of the films is insufficiently distinct to permit a definitive identification, it appears to be a white man, dressed in a loose, dark–toned shirt with an open neck and either short or rolled–up sleeves. The figure does not appear to be wearing a white shirt or a tie, as would have been customary for male office workers in the early 1960s. Its short hair and light skin tone strongly suggest that it is neither a woman nor a black man, although the lack of definition in the images does not completely rule out either possibility. The figure’s head and hairline are not inconsistent with Oswald’s appearance.

Could ‘Prayer Man’ Have Been Oswald?

Lee Oswald claimed to have been on the first floor at the time of the assassination. There is certainly very little evidence to support the official doctrine that he was on the sixth floor of the TSBD. An unreliable witness, Howard Brennan, described the gunman as looking somewhat like Oswald, and a handful of other witnesses gave vague descriptions that matched Oswald along with any number of other young, white men. On the other hand:

Every witness who described the gunman’s clothing, including Brennan, claimed that it did not match Oswald’s clothing.

Oswald was seen on a lower floor about 15 minutes before the shooting, at the same time as a spectator saw a gunman on the sixth floor.

Oswald is known to have been on the first floor, in or near the domino room, about five or ten minutes after this.

Reports in the Dallas Morning News and the New York Herald Tribune, both published on the morning after the assassination, state that Ochus Campbell, the vice–president of the TSBD company, and a policeman saw Oswald very shortly after the shooting in a “storage room on the first floor”

The currently available evidence of Oswald’s location at the time of the assassination does not preclude him from being Prayer Man.

When Marina Oswald (who has maintained her husband’s innocence) was shown by researchers pictures of the "prayer man" from the films taken by Dave Wiegman of NBC-TV and Jimmy Darnell of WBAP-TV during the assassination, an unprompted Marina told Ed LeDoux that the “Prayer Man” was Lee.

[dailyunsolvedmysteries-movedd]

Who Is ‘Prayer Man’?

On the day of JFK’s assignation, Dave Wiegman and Jimmy Darnell, two of the news cameramen travelling in the motorcade, began filming when they heard gunshots. For several decades, the significance of their two films was thought to lie in their portrayal of the spectators along Elm Street and the cars in the motorcade. More recently, attention has been drawn to the films’ depiction of the doorway of the Texas School Book Depository, and in particular to a previously ignored figure who, according to some observers, may have been Lee Harvey Oswald. In several frames of the two black–and–white news films, a figure is visible in the western corner of the TSBD doorway. From the cameras’ point of view, the figure is standing to the left of the man in the Altgens photograph who has been identified as Billy Lovelady. The figure’s right arm appears to be raised across its chest, which has earned it the name ‘Prayer Man’. The figure is unlikely to have been praying, but it may have its arms crossed, or it may be holding an object up to its chest. Although the figure in the currently available versions of the films is insufficiently distinct to permit a definitive identification, it appears to be a white man, dressed in a loose, dark–toned shirt with an open neck and either short or rolled–up sleeves. The figure does not appear to be wearing a white shirt or a tie, as would have been customary for male office workers in the early 1960s. Its short hair and light skin tone strongly suggest that it is neither a woman nor a black man, although the lack of definition in the images does not completely rule out either possibility. The figure’s head and hairline are not inconsistent with Oswald’s appearance.

Could ‘Prayer Man’ Have Been Oswald?

Lee Oswald claimed to have been on the first floor at the time of the assassination. There is certainly very little evidence to support the official doctrine that he was on the sixth floor of the TSBD. An unreliable witness, Howard Brennan, described the gunman as looking somewhat like Oswald, and a handful of other witnesses gave vague descriptions that matched Oswald along with any number of other young, white men. On the other hand:

Every witness who described the gunman’s clothing, including Brennan, claimed that it did not match Oswald’s clothing.

Oswald was seen on a lower floor about 15 minutes before the shooting, at the same time as a spectator saw a gunman on the sixth floor.

Oswald is known to have been on the first floor, in or near the domino room, about five or ten minutes after this.

Reports in the Dallas Morning News and the New York Herald Tribune, both published on the morning after the assassination, state that Ochus Campbell, the vice–president of the TSBD company, and a policeman saw Oswald very shortly after the shooting in a “storage room on the first floor”

The currently available evidence of Oswald’s location at the time of the assassination does not preclude him from being Prayer Man.

When Marina Oswald (who has maintained her husband’s innocence) was shown by researchers pictures of the “prayer man” from the films taken by Dave Wiegman of NBC-TV and Jimmy Darnell of WBAP-TV during the assassination, an unprompted Marina told Ed LeDoux that the “Prayer Man” was Lee.

[shapeshivvter]

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NBBWAP BWAP WBAP BWOOPPP

[oldshowbiz]

The Fort Worth Star Telegram’s Television Station

[vintagepipemen]

Unidentified reporter for Texas’ WBAP-TV news, 1974. 

[crescent-coral-base]

Channel 5, KXAS now but WBAP-TV until 1974, is (and was) the Dallas/Fort Worth metroplex's NBC affiliate.

7:30 pm Central time is 8:30 pm Eastern time, so this billboard is advertising Star Trek airing weekly in Prime Time over the NBC network. During STAR TREK's first season, its timeslot was, in fact, Thursday evenings starting at 8:30 Eastern/7:30 Central and Mountain. From those nuggets of information, we can date this photo from sometime between September 1966 to September 1967.

STAR TREK billboard in Fort Worth, Texas, ca. 1970.

[friendlessghoul]

WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about actors Gilbert Roland and Rory Calhoun arriving in Dallas to promote their film, "Treasure of Pancho Villa."

[Transcript] Hollywood actor Gilbert Roland arrives in Dallas--Another of a host of motion picture notables due in Dallas on picture promotions during the next few weeks. Roland is part of an entourage to promote the opening day showing of the picture, "Treasure of Pancho Villa." A second star of the RKO Superscope production --Rory Calhoun -- arrives with his wife, the former Lita Baron, who didn't play in the Pancho Villa movie but is helping promote it. The visit by the movie celebrities coincided with a celebration marking the opening of Vistavision facilities at the Palace theatre in Dallas. (September 30, 1955)

The book Gilbert Roland is holding is, The Wine of Youth by Robert Wilder (1955)

[dankusner]

What's Heche's line? 

Leading lesbian Anne Heche is following in Liz Smith's footsteps — kind of.

Smith recently reported that Ms. Heche (no stranger to the gossip columns herself) has committed to portray Dorothy Kilgallen in a screen adaptation of Lee Israel's biography of the controversial journalist. 

Perhaps best remembered as a regular panelist on the old What's My Line? game show in the '60s, Kilgallen was an old-time Tinseltown trial-reporter-slash-gossip-hound who was often dismissed unfairly as a narrow-minded harpy. 

When she died under mysterious circumstances in 1965, conspiracy theorists started spreading rumors that her untimely demise was due to her knowing "too much" about the real story behind the Kennedy assassination (she had been covering the Jack Ruby trial before she died). 

No word yet on whether the flick will be made for TV or the big screen, but TV producer David Yamell has already signed on.

^^ at :53 — Dorothy Kilgallen gets searched.