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[Photograph 2012.201.B0360.0384]

Description: Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "A laugh was the first answer of Ben Laska, Denver criminal attorney, to federal charges of conspiracy in the $200,000 kidnapping of Charles F. Urschel, Oklahoma Oil millionaire, Laska, (third form left pointing finger) was accused of receiving $10,000 of the ransom money form Albert Bates, sentenced to life imprisonment for the Urschel kidnapping."
Date: June 7, 1948
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0360.0375]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Dapper Ben B. Laska was glum Wednesday night as he left, Denver, bound for Oklahoma City, to surrender for a ten-year term for accepting part of the Charles F. Urschel kidnapping ransom."
Date: 1936
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0904.0164]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "The state of Texas rested its case Friday in the murder trial of Evald Johnson, who is accused of the tourist killing of Tex Thornton, famous oil well fighter."
Date: May 13, 1950
Creator: Williams, Lester
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1435.0130]

Description: Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Percy Foreman, widely acclaimed criminal, shows concentration as he listens to questioning from the media during lunch break in the competency hearing of Alvin Lee King III."
Date: July 29, 1980
Creator: Haber, Bill
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1435.0158]

Description: Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Percy Foreman, 77-year-old Houston attorney, is shown talking to the media during the lunch break at Daingerfield, Texas, Monday."
Date: July 28, 1980
Creator: Haber, Bill
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1435.0139]

Description: Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Houston lawyer Percy Foreman told the House assassinations committee Monday that James Earl Ray lied when he denied recruiting Foreman to defend him on charges of assassinating Martin Luther King Jr. Ray has waged a battle of accusations against Foreman."
Date: unknown
Creator: Duricka, John
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society
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