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[BASEMENT BOX 66.0071]

Description: Caption: "Charred ruins of Riss Truck Lines freight depot are part of the $300,000 trail of destruction left by three 11-year-old boys" Charred remains of Riss Truck Lines.
Date: October 9, 1963
Creator: Argo, Jim
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0053.0615]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Drivers of two semi-trailer trucks escaped injury Friday night when their vehicles collided in the 7400 block Northeast Expressway."
Date: November 27, 1963
Creator: Wood, Tony
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0858]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "9-VEHICLE PILEUP on Turner Turnpike Friday, caused by blinding smoke from fire along highway, is viewed in aerial photo, at right. Circle shows impact area. Above is death truck, driven by a Tulsa man. One other trucker also was killed."
Date: August 24, 1963
Creator: Lucas, Jim & Matheson, Mandell
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0861]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "WET ROADS contributed to traffic accidents which killed five persons in Oklahoma Thursday. James Walter Dobbs, 40, Mounds, died in this car-truck smashup near Tulsa."
Date: August 30, 1963
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0053.0619]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "MOUNTAIN OF GRAIN is piled on the NE 23 St. river bridge Friday night after a semi-trailer truck slammed into the bridge rail and overturned."
Date: October 11, 1963
Creator: Brown, Don
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0053.0608]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "KING-SIZE SWEEPING job awaits these employees of a soft - drink bottling plant after a loaded truck spilled several cases of empty bottles into the street at NW 4 and Broadway Monday."
Date: September 23, 1963
Creator: Albright, Bob
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0860]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Wreckage litters turnpike and shoulder after crash that killed two." Photographer Unknown. Original Photo 08/24/63. Published on T-08-24-63 RS."
Date: August 24, 1963
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0053.0622]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "A tanker truck loaded with over 8,000 gallons of inflammable chemical overturned at the entrance of I. H. 35 and Byers in Oklahoma City Thursday and created a giant traffic snarl."
Date: September 12, 1963
Creator: Albright, Bob
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0053.0866]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "SUDDEN UNLOADING of building materials and sacks of cement resulted when the Norman bound truck driven by Teddy Williams, 2462 w Sheridan, turned over Friday on I.H. 35 north of Moore."
Date: December 13, 1963
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0859]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Traffic piles up, see cars at left, after spectacular crash Friday that killed two persons and injured six on the Turner Turnpike."
Date: August 24, 1963
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.6133]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Bootle-Neck' at Classen traffic circle greeted motorists - again - Wednesday afternoon during the rush hour when soft-drink cases toppled from a bottling company truck. Last Monday, motorists encountered 50 npounds of nails which fell from a truck into the road."
Date: November 13, 1963
Creator: Lucas, Jim
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.6145]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "9-Vehicle Pileup on Turner Turnpike Friday, caused by blinding smoke from fire along highway, is viewed in aerial photo, at right. Circle shows inpact area. Aboce is death truck, driven by a Tulsa man. One other trucker also was killed."
Date: August 23, 1963
Creator: Matheson, Mandell
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.6144]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Grain Poured Over I.H. 35 near SE 43 Saturday afternoon when a truck driven by Davis R. Dillard, 56, Ada, overturned in the southbound lane after colliding with a driven by Elisha S. Kubala, 55, of 1439 NE 39. Both men escaped injury."
Date: November 9, 1963
Creator: Traverse, Austin
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.6136]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Pinned Beneath Wreckage of his semi-trailer truck, Virgil Schultz, 26, Davis (circled), waits, while winch trucks work to free him. Police said Schultz was pinned for nearly four hours Sunday afternoon after the truck hit a slick spot on I.H. 35 about four miles south of Moore, and jackknifed. Schultz was treated and released at an Oklahoma City hospital."
Date: November 3, 1963
Creator: Foster, Ray
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.6146]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Scattered Remnants of the car-truck accident which injured three Texans late Wednesday are mixed with parts of the plane which was being carried on the semi-trailer truck. Wheels of the truck were ripped loose and Thursday still lay near the body of the plane. The accident occurred three miles south of wayne on U. S. 77. Ralph Hamilton and his wife Dalla, were hospitialized as was the driver of the truck, Solomon Wells, … more
Date: April 11, 1963
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.6164]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "Icy Death met the driver of this car when he lost control one-fourth mile south of SE 29 on Eastern and the vehicle plunged into a creek. Drowned was William D. Wilbamks, 51, of 235 SE 59. His two sons, 13 and 16. escaped injury. This was on of 117 accidents caused by ice late Thursday."
Date: December 19, 1963
Creator: Foster, Ray
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.6139]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Miraculously escaping when his semi-trailer truck jackknifed after hitting a slick spot on rain washed IH 35 several miles south of Moore Sunday afternoon was Virgil Schultz, 26, Davis. Schultz was pinned in the wreckage of his cab for nearly four hours as house moving equipment, winch trucks, highway patrolmen and volunteers worked desperately to free him. The trailer, loaded with shale, landed atop the truck cab after t… more
Date: November 2, 1963
Creator: Foster, Ray
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.6137]

Description: Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "(photo of a wreckage of two semis on the highway "West 74,", semi tractor and trailer on the left lane and island, semi trailer on the right, service truck on the right front, a few people at the scene, other side of the highway still flowing, and more)"
Date: February 6, 1963
Creator: Albright, Bob
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society
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