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[Photograph 2012.201.B1002.0842]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "First animal attack in the records of Lincoln Park Zoo looked like this Saturday. A 350 pound lioness pinned zoo keeper Lynn Hudson to the floor of the pit, then bit and clawed him for 20minutes."
Date: September 10, 1961
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1002.0843]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Zoo's wounded lion is recovering, too. Both the Lincoln Park Zoo attendant and the lioness which mauled him last Saturday were reported in satisfactory condition Thursday."
Date: September 14, 1961
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1002.0840]

Description: Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Kitty isn't a kidding, a 350 pound lioness mauls and chews on Lynn Hudson, 19 year old zookeeper at Lincoln Park Zoo here yesterday. Hudson spent a harrowing 20 minutes in the den but was reported in satisfactory condition despite being clawed and bitten the stomach, arms, chest and neck. A bullet also hit him in the arm when another attendant fired three times at lioness, she was hit in the head but not severel… more
Date: September 11, 1961
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1002.0841]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Nervously pacing the pit where a female lioness attacked zoo keeper Lynn Hudson is this male lion which participated briefly in the 20 minute mauling. Another zoo attendant shot the lioness, wounding her and ending the attack."
Date: September 9, 1961
Creator: Gumm, John
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society
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