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[Photograph 2012.201.B0417.0369]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "OKLAHOMA CITY, JULY 13 -- RANSOM MONEY-- C. J. FINLEY, 40, OF DALLAS COMES BACK OKLAHOMA CITY AIRPORT TERMINAL EARLY THURSDAY AFTER HE AND OTHERS PASSENGERS OF AMERICAN AIRLINE 727 WERE RELEASED ."
Date: July 13, 1972
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0417.0368]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "C. L. Finley, Dallas, was the passenger selected by the pirate to leave the plane when it landed a second time in Oklahoma City and take aboard $550,000 in cash and a parachute. Finley, 40, said he was sitting at the very front of the plane and was not sure why he was chosen, except that "I was watching him real close; if I got a chance, I was going to get his."
Date: July 12, 1972
Creator: Traverse, Cliff
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society
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