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BASEMENT BOX 67.0429

Fire truck with water hose putting out fire of BJ Goodrich tires and restaurant.Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Lawton's worst fire since 1919, possibly set by an arsonist, gutted four downtown buildings Friday night, causing damages estimated as high as $400,000."
Date: May 25, 1956
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

BASEMENT BOX 67.0423

Four story Hotel, burned out, street view with fire trucks and fire fighters. Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Firemen pour water on the Midland hotel in Lawton Thursday after blaze broke out in the southwest portion of the building."
Date: September 14, 1956
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

BASEMENT BOX 67.0426

Photograph taken at night of firefighters extinguishing a building fire. Caption: "Firemen fight to contain flames surging through the Lawton store of the C. R. Anthony Co. The store was completely gutted by the fire, the second major blaze in downtown Lawton in two months."
Date: July 26, 1956
Creator: Tapscott, George
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
[News Script: Light Airplane is Carried by Copter] (open access)

[News Script: Light Airplane is Carried by Copter]

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about an experimental flight where a helicopter ferries an Army reconnaissance plane from San Marcos, Texas, to Lawton, Oklahoma.
Date: August 15, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Script
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Man held in theft of 2,000 half dollars] (open access)

[News Script: Man held in theft of 2,000 half dollars]

Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about an Arlington man being arrested on federal theft charges after allegedly stealing a bag of 2,000 half-dollar coins from a Railway Express office in Oklahoma.
Date: June 8, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Script
System: The UNT Digital Library