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[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0954]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Auto Driver Crashes Into Train, Only Complaint---a Headache. George Aebischer's car was ruined this morning, but he considers himself the luckiest man among all the Oklahoma Cityans who sweated and suffered on the city's glassy streets. He rode his sliding auto into a freight train and walked away with nothing more than a headache. "That's as close as I ever want to come to dying." Aebischer said, as he surveye… more
Date: January 5, 1973
Creator: Tapscott, George
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0230.0088]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "A 16-year-old Oklahoma City youth was sentenced to 10 years at the state Penitentiary this morning for his part in the attempted assassination of an Oklahoma City real estate woman."
Date: June 13, 1973
Creator: Argo, Jim
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1337.0299]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "A coat draped over his bandages, attendant Rod Van Hook, 28, enters police headquarters with Det. Denver Kirby. The young service station attendant confessed at noon today that he shot himself and falsely reported a robbery at the station at SE 29 and I-40, after concealing the "stolen" money in his car."
Date: February 16, 1973
Creator: Carter, J. Pat
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society
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