[Photograph 2012.201.B0316.0456]
Description:
Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "MCALESTER, JUNE 9-- A $10 debt brought violent death Monday to diminutive Joe "Blackie " Driver, 50-year old state penitentiary inmate who had lived recklessly most of his adult life. Driver, serving a seven-year sentence for burglary from Oklahoma county, was beaten and stabbed by another convict. His body was found under a building near the prison canteen, less than 50 feet from the sergeant's office."
Date:
November 25, 1948
Creator:
Kaho, C. J.
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Partner:
Oklahoma Historical Society