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[Photograph 2012.201.B0249.0222]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Abbott Washburn, New York, Executive Vice-Chairman of Crusade for Freedom, left, about to release one of the plastic balloons with the aid of an unidentified spectator."
Date: August 30, 1951
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0249.0223]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Another plastic balloon takes the air on its long trip behind the Iron Curtain where the morning of Aug. 14, last, it settled to earth in the vicinity of Prague where prisoner peoples of Czecho-slovakia presumably found its messages of freedom and hope for their ultimately liberation from the communist rulers."
Date: August 30, 1951
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society
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