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[Photograph 2012.201.B1258.0774]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Pre-Hearing conference between Orville Lindsay Chambless, 35, Oklahoma City bootlegger, right, and his attorney, Herbert K. Hyde, left, is held just prior to Chambless' arraignment Monday in connection with a $248,000 robbery early Friday at a Fort Worth hotel."
Date: October 6, 1952
Creator: Tapscott, George
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1258.0783]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "For the first time in several months, Orville Lindsay Chambless, above, Oklahoma City's flying bootlegger, was afoul the law."
Date: May 2, 1950
Creator: Kaho, C. J.
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1258.0781]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "In the darkness near midnight 'Friday, a gunman crept up to the home (top photo) of Orville Lindsey Chambless, Oklahoma City bootlegger, and fired a shotgun through the picture window, bottom photo, seriously wounding the 35 year old resident as he watched television."
Date: October 23, 1952
Creator: Lucas, Jim
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1258.0785]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "William Jefferson Hutto, 37, Dallas, left, and Orville L. Chambless, 31, of 944 SW29, city bootlegger, right, are shown as they were booked at the county jail Tuesday morning."
Date: September 7, 1948
Creator: Kaho, C. J.
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1258.0772]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Albion H. Potts Jr., 28, Oklahoma City liquor runner, left, Tuesday morning told the highway patrol he was shot out of his car near Lawton and hijacked of 50 cases of liquor valued at $5,000 retail."
Date: October 19, 1954
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1258.0771]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Orville Lindsay Chambless, left, Oklahoma City liquor runner charged in Comanche county with robbing a fellow 'legger Oct. 19, 1954, reluctantly goes back to jail until a new $15,000 bond was posted."
Date: February 11, 1955
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1258.0788]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Once upon a time Orville Lindsay Chambless drove exspensive automobiles and used airplanes to haul his whiskey into dry Oklahoma."
Date: November 8, 1957
Creator: Peterson, Dick
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1258.0780]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Orville Chambless, left, and Pete McGinnis, a pilot, look at mystery-slashed plane that helped break Chambless into big time."
Date: August 12, 1949
Creator: McLaughlin, Al
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1258.0773]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Orville Lindsay Chambless, almost legendary "flying bootlegger" of Oklahoma City, faced a 5-year term in the state penitentiaryFriday after his conviction by a superior court jury for armed robbery."
Date: October 22, 1955
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1258.0778]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "In the darkness near midnight Friday, a gunman crept up to the home (top photo) of Orville Lindsey Chambless, Oklahoma City bootlegger, and fired a shotgun through the picture window, bottom photo, seriously wounding the 35 year old resident as he watched television."
Date: October 23, 1952
Creator: Lucas, Jim
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society
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