[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0880]

Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Investigators check scene of fatal car-train accident in Ardmore Friday. STATE TRAFFIC TOLL 1971 to date 788, 1970 to date 794. 71 deaths under 21: 236, An Ardmore woman was killed Friday afternoon when her car collided with a Santa Fe Railroad engine in the city limits of Ardmore. Dead is ADALEE EMMA TUCKER, 63, Ardmore. Mrs. Tucker, a waitress at Lake Murray State Lodge, was pronounced dead on arrival at an Ardmore hospital. Ardmore police said her car drove in front of the northbound Santa Fe freight. B. A. Shawn, 46, Lone Grove, a witness to the accident, said the train was whistling when Mrs. Tucker's car drove onto the tracks, but it was only about 25 feet away. Mrs. Gale Tucker, the victim's daughter-in-law, said, "there are no signal lights, no blinkers or anything to warn that there is a train coming. There is hardly any way you can hear if you have the windows up."
Date: December 18, 1971
Creator: Pitts, Robbie
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0881]

Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company.
Date: December 18, 1971
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0312B.0728]

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "JURIES. \ COUNTY."
Date: December 18, 1971
Creator: Tullous, Don
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B1089.0329]

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Mike Riley - Oklahoma State"
Date: December 18, 1971
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B1225.0564]

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Mrs. Richard Manning, Mrs. George Swisher and Mrs. Harry Bayless."
Date: December 18, 1971
Creator: Mooney, Hank
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B1323.0100]

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Bullet wound furrows check of police officer Steve Upchurch."
Date: December 18, 1971
Creator: Albright, Bob
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0107.0381]

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Kerr-McGee swimmers, under new coach Jim Brimer, are working toward their annual Winter A meet Dec. 11-12, with 114 members of the Kermac squad at present."
Date: November 18, 1971
Creator: Miller, Joe
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0107.0450]

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Rex Brinlee testified more than 3 hours in his own defense Thursday night and denied any part in the Feb. 2 bombing murder of a Bristow school teacher."
Date: November 18, 1971
Creator: Wilson, Joe
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0119.0243]

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Serving Grant C. Butler, center, at a coffee preceding his lecture to Town Hall is Mrs. W. Bryan Arnn, right."
Date: November 18, 1971
Creator: Miller, Joe
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0262B.0462]

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Finalist in the Arabian mounted Native Costume competition is Nigatt, owned by Matthias Arabian , Cedar falls, Iowa. ridden by Julie Goder."
Date: November 18, 1971
Creator: Mooney, Hank
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0262B.0483]

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Finalists in native costume competition is Nigatt, owned by Matthias Arabian , Cedar Falls, Iowa ridden by Judie Goder."
Date: November 18, 1971
Creator: Mooney, Hank
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0272.0038]

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Sgt. Bob Hutton, left, anxiety showing on his face, reaches under a "bomb blanket" to see if a suspicious briefcase, found in the federal courthouse recently, contains a bomb."
Date: November 18, 1971
Creator: Heaton, Dave
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0272.0038]

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Sgt. Bob Hutton, left, anxiety showing on his face, reaches under a "bomb blanket" to see if a suspicious briefcase, found in the federal courthouse recently, contains a bomb."
Date: November 18, 1971
Creator: Heaton, Dave
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0272.0041]

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "HOT CASE is covered with a fiberglass and steel blanket by police Sgt. Bob Hutton Thursday afternoon behind the federal building."
Date: November 18, 1971
Creator: Heaton, Dave
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0272.0041]

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "HOT CASE is covered with a fiberglass and steel blanket by police Sgt. Bob Hutton Thursday afternoon behind the federal building."
Date: November 18, 1971
Creator: Heaton, Dave
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0947.0057]

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "78-POUND BABY was born Thursday to Fatima, a camel owned by Myles Newcomb."
Date: November 18, 1971
Creator: Miller, Joe
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B1026.0614]

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company.
Date: November 18, 1971
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B1420.0616]

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Pretty hot stuff is handled with asbestos gloves by Debbie Yeargain, a test repair operator at one of Honeywell Information Systems' peripheral operations plants in Oklahoma City."
Date: November 18, 1971
Creator: Heaton, Dave
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B1434.0453]

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company.
Date: November 18, 1971
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B1434.0525]

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company.
Date: November 18, 1971
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B1434.0526]

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company.
Date: November 18, 1971
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.2028]

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "Fires, smoke and panic sent 27 persons to hospitals this morning from Wlaker Tower residence hall, one of three University of Oklahoma building structures by almoust simultaneous pre-dawn blazes. Francis Shirley, state fire marshal's agent, said the fire in the 12-story tower was "something other than an accident." All three sites were being combed for arson evidence. Top university officials were in a closed conference late this morning, presumably assessing the situation. All questions were referred to OU information office officials, who also were in the meeting. The three fires followed a small blaze that left minor damage Wednesday night at a small pre-fab building storing University Bookstore University Bookstore materials near Walker Tower. The other two morning fires destroyed Building 8, an H-shaped frame barracks used for storage on the south campus, and the food service office in Wilson Center. Among charred ruins in the latter were pay records of many food service employees.....Walker Tower, with of 1,000 residents, were evacuated shortly after the fire was discovered about 4:30 a.m......Most residents on the fourth floor were attending a two-week National Com-"
Date: November 18, 1971
Creator: Miller, Joe
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0311.0022]

Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "I think we shouldn't call a policeman pig, fuss or cop," Dale Autry penned in his letter to the editor, "because he finds lost children and stole things."
Date: October 18, 1971
Creator: Taylor, Robert
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0910.0002]

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Playing piano, especially to accompany her daughter, is the favorite hobby of Mrs. Will E. Mitschke"
Date: October 18, 1971
Creator: Wilson, Joe
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History