[Photograph 2012.201.B1060.0087]
Description:
Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "An OKC bootlegger was arrested Thursday while police probed the fatal shooting of an unemployed meat packinghouse worker. Jessie E. Porter, 45, is shown here in Mercy Hospital, attended by nurse Betty Wilson, after being shot through the head with a .25 caliber pistol. The bootlegger, Theo Smith, 54, told police first that he had no knowledge of the shooting, then said Porter had shot himself, even though the gun was found …
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Date:
May 17, 1956
Creator:
Tapscott, George
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Partner:
Oklahoma Historical Society