[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0962] Metadata

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Title

  • Main Title [Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0962]
  • Added Title Train Turned Death Car Into Twisted Metal.

Creator

  • Photographer: Pate, Dave
    Creator Type: Personal

Contributor

  • Author: Long, John
    Contributor Type: Personal
    Contributor Info: Caption writer.

Date

  • Creation: 1970-12-11

Language

  • No Language

Description

  • Content Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Train turned death car into twisted metal. An Oklahoma City man was killed Friday night when a passenger train hit his car near NW 92 and Western. Lee Bougdon Cocklin, 75, of 1125 NW 92, was killed when his late model car was hit by a north-bound Santa Fe Railway train, police said. Cocklin was traveling west when he was hit by a northbound Texas Chief, which was making its first trip through Oklahoma since the short-lived rail strike. E.O. Chaddock, superintendent of the Santa Fe downtown depot at its normally scheduled time, 5:40 p.m. and that flashers were in operation when the train approached the intersection. The south-bound Chief had been held up in Chicago due to the Thursday strike. Lt. O.W. Ardry, traffic division, said Cocklin was dead on arrival at Baptist Memorial Hospital from internal injuries he received."
  • Physical Description: 1 photograph

Subject

  • University of North Texas Libraries Browse Structure: Business, Economics and Finance - Journalism
  • Keyword: Accidents
  • Keyword: Auto
  • Keyword: Train
  • Keyword: 1970
  • Keyword: newspaper photographs
  • OPUBCO folder structure: ACCIDENTS / AUTO / TRAIN / 1970

Primary Source

  • Item is a Primary Source

Coverage

  • Place Name: United States - Oklahoma - Oklahoma County - Oklahoma City
  • Coverage Date: 1970-12-11
  • Time Period: mod-tim

Collection

  • Name: Oklahoma Publishing Company Photography Collection
    Code: OKPCP

Institution

  • Name: Oklahoma Historical Society
    Code: OKHS

Resource Type

  • Photograph

Format

  • Image

Identifier

  • Accession or Local Control No: 2012.201.B0052.0962
  • Archival Resource Key: ark:/67531/metadc198725

Note

  • Display Note: PublishDate: 12-12-1970 Oklahoman
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