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[Photograph 2012.201.B0931.0069]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Highway patrol Trooper Gerald Parsons, left. escorts recaptured prison convict Robert Nelson to a patrol car after Nelson's captureTuesday."
Date: June 22, 1976
Creator: Carter, Pat J.
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0366B.0620]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "With lights glaring and microphones stuck in their faces, Jones, Williams and fellow killer Joney Joe Lusty held court Friday with newsmen who peppered them with questions about a life of waiting at Big Mac. Jones called the death sentence "barbaric."
Date: September 10, 1976
Creator: Klock, Roger
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.B1013.0468]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Taped bars on one the heavy grates cut by escaping penitentiary inmates at McAlester are inspected by prison official. The grate which blocked a utility tunnel, were cut by hacksaw blades and an acetylene torch."
Date: June 21, 1976
Creator: Carter, J. Pat
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1013.0495]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Escape team searchers comb northeast section of McAlester Monday, prior to the capture of two more of the seven inmates who broke out of the state penitentiary late Saturday."
Date: June 22, 1976
Creator: Carter, J. Pat
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1013.0498]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Seven escapees from the Oklahoma State Penitentiary at McAlester cut through this section of fence at the prison to make their getaway late Saturday officials said. The hole quickly repaired by prison workers."
Date: June 21, 1976
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1013.0467]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Taped bars on one the heavy grates cut by escaping penitentiary inmates at McAlester are inspected by prison official. The grate which blocked a utility tunnel, were cut by hacksaw blades and an acetylene torch."
Date: June 21, 1976
Creator: Carter, J. Pat
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1211.0146]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Two McAlester men, charged along with state Sen. Gene Stipe in an indictment alleging they illegally influenced the granting of a 1974 government loan, filed motions in federal court Wednesday to delay their trial."
Date: February 24, 1976
Creator: Southerland, Paul B.
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1013.0496]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Tools used by seven convicts to escape through a utility tunnel to freedom at the state penitentiary at McAlester Saturday night are displayed by prison officials included in the array are wirecutters, hacksaws, wrenches and screwdrivers."
Date: June 22, 1976
Creator: Carter, J. Pat
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1207.0056]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Top state boy of this year selected by the Boys Club of America is Burton Steidly, 16, of McAlester, who received his plaque Thursday from Gov. David Boren in a ceremony at the state capitol."
Date: March 11, 1976
Creator: Tullous, Don
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society
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