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[Photograph 2012.201.B0316.0456]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "MCALESTER, JUNE 9-- A $10 debt brought violent death Monday to diminutive Joe "Blackie " Driver, 50-year old state penitentiary inmate who had lived recklessly most of his adult life. Driver, serving a seven-year sentence for burglary from Oklahoma county, was beaten and stabbed by another convict. His body was found under a building near the prison canteen, less than 50 feet from the sergeant's office."
Date: November 25, 1948
Creator: Kaho, C. J.
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0237.0521]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "The Godbey Trail: On the far side of the counsel table are the prosecution: Granville Seanland, county attorney; Russell Holloway and Hubert Gibson, his assistants, and Jerome Sullivan, Duncan lawyer and special prosecutor."
Date: March 14, 1949
Creator: Miller, Joe
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0237.0501]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Roy Frank Godbey, center, went on trial for his life in district court here Monday charged with murder of Earl Pruet, prominent city lawyer."
Date: March 14, 1949
Creator: Kaho, C. J.
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0237.0508]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Roy Frank Godbey, round-shouldered former convict told district Judge Clarence Mills Friday, "I have no ill feeling toward any living person," before the court sentenced him to serve a life sentence in the state penitentiary in McAlester."
Date: March 25, 1949
Creator: Killian, Thomas F.
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society
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