[Photograph 2012.201.B0987.0975]

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Rich Owen, Executioner at McAlester Penitentiary, Deceased: 2-26-48."
Date: 1936
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0987.0973]

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Rich Owen, Executioner at McAlester Penitentiary, Deceased: 2-26-48."
Date: November 28, 1933
Creator: Oklahoma Publishing Company
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0987.0972]

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Rich Owen, Executioner at McAlester Penitentiary and his Bulldogs, Deceased: 2-26-48."
Date: December 30, 1936
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0987.0976]

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Rich Owen, Executioner at McAlester Penitentiary, Deceased: 2-26-48."
Date: 1948
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0987.0971]

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Rich Owen, Executioner at McAlester Penitentiary, Deceased: 2-26-48."
Date: 1933
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0987.0967]

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Rich Owen, Prison Executioner, Deceased: 2-26-48."
Date: June 16, 1936
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0982.0465]

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Warden Jerome J. Waters (upper photo) was bound and held prisoner at knife point for 45 Minutes at McAlester prison Wednesday by two lifers who made an unsuccessful attempt to escape."
Date: November 19, 1951
Creator: Burns, Bill
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0987.0974]

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Rich Owen, Executioner at McAlester Penitentiary, Deceased: 2-26-48."
Date: June 15, 1936
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0987.0965]

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Rich Owen, Prison Executioner, Deceased: 2-26-48."
Date: unknown
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0987.0979]

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Rich Owen, Executioner at McAlester Penitentiary, Deceased: 2-26-48."
Date: June 16, 1936
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0987.0966]

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Rich Owen, Prison Executioner, Attacked and injured by convicts in an attempt to escape. Deceased: 2-26-48."
Date: 1936
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0987.0980]

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Rich Owen, Executioner at McAlester Penitentiary, Deceased: 2-26-48."
Date: June 16, 1936
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0987.0977]

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Rich Owen, Executioner at McAlester Penitentiary, Deceased: 2-26-48."
Date: unknown
Creator: Oklahoma Publishing Company
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0987.0969]

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Rich Owen, Executioner at McAlester Penitentiary, Deceased: 2-26-48."
Date: unknown
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0987.0970]

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Rich Owen, Executioner at McAlester Penitentiary, Deceased: 2-26-48."
Date: unknown
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0987.0978]

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Rich Owen, Executioner at McAlester Penitentiary, Deceased: 2-26-48."
Date: June 16, 1936
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0987.0968]

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Rich Owen, Executioner at McAlester Penitentiary, Deceased: 2-26-48."
Date: unknown
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B1410.0227]

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Pete" Williams will prove himself a prophet Thursday night."
Date: April 27, 1959
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B1420.0493]

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Choirs and their directors will be coming from 10 or a dozen Oklahoma cities, to join the eleventh annual choir festival sponsored by the Oklahoma Federation of Music Clubs in Grand Avenue Methodist church in this city next Sunday, April 20."
Date: March 5, 1959
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B1410.0311]

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Mrs. Gene Howard Williams, Tulsa, waits with her children Netsha and Sheldie for a decision on her husbands prison term."
Date: 1973
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B1410.0226]

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Edward Leon "Pete" Williams slated to die in the electric chair April 4 for the kidnaping of a young Tulsa ministerial student, took another step toward death Tuesday when he was denied a federal court writ of habeas corpus."
Date: March 22, 1960
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.b1406.0103]

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "FOR LABOR COMMISSIONER - Joe White, McAlester, left, opposes Jim Hughes, labor commissioner, for the Democratic nomination for labor commissioner. White, 48, is a garage owner at McASLESTER."
Date: 1954
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B1428.0085]

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Mrs. Sharon Young, whose husband Al, is serving a one-year sentence for second degree burglary, began last month in her efforts to organize a regular schedule of visits to the penitentiary for women who cannot afford the expense of the trip on their own."
Date: March 10, 1972
Creator: Argo, Jim
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B1389.0557]

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Robert Walker, McAlester Convict"
Date: August 2, 1973
Creator: Albright, Bob
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History