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[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.4987]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "A 38-year-old man, formely a prosperous San Francisco businessman, plunged seven stories to his death from the Wells-Roberts Hotel Tuesday afternoon. A moment after he leaped, the hotel switchboard lighted up, and a woman's voice asked to speak to "905." Following a brief pause, operator Agnes Ward told the caller, "He doesn't answer." The woman hung up. Hotel assistant manager Jack Briscoe identified the dead man as Lo… more
Date: December 27, 1940
Creator: McLaughlin, Al
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society
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