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[Photograph 2012.201.B0053.0846]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "L. J. Gordon, Edwardsville, Ill., was burned to death when his truck burst into flames after plunging over an embankment 10 miles north of McAlester on U.S. 69. Highway patrolman said Gordon attempted to pass a car when a front tire blew out, causing the truck to plunge down an eight foot embankment."
Date: April 7, 1947
Creator: Cowan, Howard
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Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0053.0850]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "A Heavy truck and 450 cases of beer were reduced to smoldering ruins shortly before midnight Monday when the carrier driven by Austin Stephen, route 5, Oklahoma City, crashed over a railing on Newcastle bridge on US 62. The truck driver, show said he went to sleep while at the wheel, was not seriously injured."
Date: September 15, 1947
Creator: Meek
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0053.0855]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "T. M. Hensley, 48, Binger, was near death in an Anadarko hospital Tuesday after he leaped or was thrown out of his pickup truck when it crashed through a bridge rail and overturned one mile north of Anadarko on SH 8 Monday night."
Date: December 9, 1947
Creator: Culver, Harry
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society
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