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[Photograph 2012.201.B0051.0734]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "A soldier walks with his arm around his sobbing wife from the runway where a transport plane carrying 64 trainees crashed at Manhattan, Kan. Families of the GIs watched in horror as the plane burst into flames."
Date: May 29, 1963

[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0529]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "HEAD-ON CRASH left this scene on the Kansas Turnpike near Topeka Saturday. Four Blackwell residents were killed in the worst crash in the history of the Kansas Turnpike. The car in the foreground, bearing Oklahoma license tags, crossed the median and hit the westbound car (background) head-on."
Date: December 29, 1963
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