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[Photograph 2012.201.B0318B.0244]

Description: Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Photo shows Al Jennings, former train robber, now evangelist and politician, as he appeared testifying on the stand before the Teapot Dome Oil Investigation Committee at the Capitol, yesterday."
Date: unknown
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0318B.0252]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Alfonso Jackson (Al) Jennings, train robber, ex-convict, lawyer, lecturer, evangelist, politician, movie celebrity and chicken rancher who hated killing chickens, is dead at 98."
Date: December 27, 1961
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0318B.0245]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Al and Frank Jennings were serving federal prison time for holding up a train near Chickasha, but soon would be pardoned by President Teddy Roosevelt, and later Al would make the race for governor of Oklahoma."
Date: March 25, 1951
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Early Cinema and Oklahoma

Description: Article illuminates the early history of cinema in Oklahoma. Oklahoma's most sustained period of high-profile filmmaking occurred during the early cinema period, those years before 1915, and had an emphasis on authenticity which meant shooting on location in the Sooner State, often with legendary outlaws recreating their old crimes.
Date: Winter 2011
Creator: Rhodes, Gary D.
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society
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