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Edward J. Murray Climbing from Ejection Capsule.

Edward J. Murray climbs from a capsule at Edwards Air Force Base after the first manned ejection test from a Convair B-58 on 2-28-1962.
Date: February 28, 1962
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Photograph 2012.201.B1116.0135]

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Actress greets refugees at Los Angeles Wednesday. jane Russell, founder and president of the WAIF adoption program, tries to make friends with two of the Chinese orphans who arrived from hong Kong. The tots are held by Mrs. G. Lee, who accompanied the youngsters. The child at right is Yuk Nu Lai, I, being adopted by a California couple."
Date: June 28, 1962
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
[Letter from Harris Leon Kempner, Jr. to Harvard College Library, December 28, 1962] (open access)

[Letter from Harris Leon Kempner, Jr. to Harvard College Library, December 28, 1962]

Letter from Harris Leon Kempner, Jr. to Harvard College Library enclosing a copy of The Cultural Revolution of the Seventeenth Century by S. L. Bethell, regarding which they've wrote him many times. He mentions that all those letters were addressed to his father and had to be forwarded to him in California. And he didn't have the book with him in California and he found it when he went home for Christmas holidays.
Date: December 28, 1962
Creator: Kempner, Harris Leon, Jr.
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History