[Photograph 2012.201.B0316.0200]

Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "new trooper fitted"
Date: August 3, 1949
Creator: Tapscott, George
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0141.0466]

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "R. B. (Dick) Conner, McAlester Warden."
Date: August 7, 1943
Creator: Stockwell, Bill
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0141.0468]

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "R. B. "Dick" Conner, McAlester Warden"
Date: August 7, 1943
Creator: Stockwell, Bill
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0267.0409]

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Oklahoma performs housing miracle at McAlester."
Date: August 15, 1948
Creator: McLaughlin, Al
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0141.0467]

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "R. B. "Dick" Conner, McAlester Warden"
Date: August 7, 1943
Creator: Stockwell, Bill
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B1013.0469]

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "This is the car used by fleeing prisoners after bloody battle."
Date: August 10, 1947
Creator: Turner, John H.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B1013.0464]

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "A closeup of the impassable bridge, scene of the bloody gunfights that ended the break from the prison. The single X marks the spot where a convict bullet put an end to the life of tab Ford, former deputy sheriff of Pittsburg and former prison guard and volunteer posseman. The double X's mark the spot where two convicts lying in ditch were killed by William E. Alexander, Pittsburg county deputy sheriff."
Date: August 10, 1941
Creator: Kaho, C. J.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B1013.0470]

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Prison break 1941"
Date: August 11, 1941
Creator: Kaho, C. J.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B1013.0409]

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "This is the exterior view of the east gate at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary at McAlester through which convicts marched Warden Jess Dunn Sunday in an effort to escape which ended in the death of the warden, two convicts and Tab Ford, former prison guard."
Date: August 10, 1941
Creator: Kaho, C. J.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B1064.0414]

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "McAlester boxer-Golden Gloves"
Date: August 27, 1947
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B1064.0415]

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper.
Date: August 11, 1947
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B1064.0416]

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company.
Date: August 8, 1947
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0283.0018]

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Walter Haggard, Pittsburg county sheriff, displays the razor which convicts held at the throat of Warden Jess Dunn as they passed through a penitentiary gate Sunday in a frustrated effort to escape."
Date: August 10, 1941
Creator: Kaho, C. J.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History