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[Photograph 2012.201.B0053.0194]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "JUMBLED WRECKAGE of 21 freight cars, part of a 135 car Rock Island train, littered the tracks near Haywood in Pittsburg County after they derailed Wednesday."
Date: September 10, 1964
Creator: Oklahoma
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0104.0634]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Death penalty opponents Michelle Gambino and Robert Peebles of Tulsa react Thursday to word that condemned killer Robert Brecheen had taken an apparent drug overdose."
Date: August 10, 1995
Creator: McDaniel, David
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0366B.0618]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Inmates Joney Joe Lusty, left, Ben Wiley Jones Jr., center, and Bobby Joe Williams respond to questions from the press following a 1976 U. S. Supreme Court ruling that overturned their death sentences. In all, 36 inmates were affected by the ruling."
Date: September 10, 1976
Creator: Klock, Roger
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1013.0464]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "A closeup of the impassable bridge, scene of the bloody gunfights that ended the break from the prison. The single X marks the spot where a convict bullet put an end to the life of tab Ford, former deputy sheriff of Pittsburg and former prison guard and volunteer posseman. The double X's mark the spot where two convicts lying in ditch were killed by William E. Alexander, Pittsburg county deputy sheriff."
Date: August 10, 1941
Creator: Kaho, C. J.
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1032.0338]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Bill Prichard, of Pete's Place Italian Restaurant in Krebs, probably the best known citizen of this tired burg, has lots of influential friends in Oklahoma."
Date: August 10, 1981
Creator: Southerland, Paul B.
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1013.0501]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "The gurney upon which Charles Troy Coleman Sr. is scheduled to be put to death can be seen from the room whee witnesses will view the death row inmate's execution."
Date: July 10, 1987
Creator: Southerland, Paul B.
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1013.0450]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Prison gymnasium juts from the west end of the hospital. Warden Robert R. Raines was turned down when he requested funds to convert little used gym into a mental hospital."
Date: November 10, 1961
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1013.0409]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "This is the exterior view of the east gate at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary at McAlester through which convicts marched Warden Jess Dunn Sunday in an effort to escape which ended in the death of the warden, two convicts and Tab Ford, former prison guard."
Date: August 10, 1941
Creator: Kaho, C. J.
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1289.1.0290]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Members of the Tomberlin family of Norman show their suport of recent execution of Robyn Leroy Parks during a vigil outside the state prison at McAlester."
Date: March 10, 1992
Creator: McDaniel, David
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1293.0009]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Some of the media representatives who witnessed Coleman's execution were from left, Ron Jenkins, Dan Ruhterford, Randy Mosier, Ziva Branstetter, Robby Trammel, Paul Sund, Jacqueline Scott and Kelly Ogle."
Date: September 10, 1990
Creator: Argo, Jim
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1372.0317]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Rep. Carl Williams, left, in light coat, and other committeemen hear A.L. Dutton, superintendent of prison industries, explain the tag plant during a tour of penitentiary facilities."
Date: December 10, 1960
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0283.0018]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Walter Haggard, Pittsburg county sheriff, displays the razor which convicts held at the throat of Warden Jess Dunn as they passed through a penitentiary gate Sunday in a frustrated effort to escape."
Date: August 10, 1941
Creator: Kaho, C. J.
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society
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