[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.1170]

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "(Photo of two firemen at the fire hose nozzle spraying, the far one looking towards the camera area with the nozzle in his hands, the front one looking away, fire in the background, and more.)"
Date: November 25, 1969
Creator: Tapscott, George
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

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Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "(Photo of the sanctuary looking down an aisle, a guy in the foreground on the left, the alter area with a shaft/pier going to the roof, section of the upper deck on the left top, and more.)"
Date: November 25, 1963
Creator: Lucas, Jim
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

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Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "(Photo of three firefighters in a line with the water hose, the one in the far center is with the nozzlem tires all around, fire across the upper across, and more.)"
Date: November 25, 1969
Creator: Tapscott, George
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

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Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "(Aerial photo of a fire's smoke cloud coming from the fire area on the lower far left, the highwy, businesses, plant/barn, and more.)"
Date: November 25, 1969
Creator: Hill, Ron
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

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Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Here's how 6,000 pints of sized whisky-$20,000 worth-went down the drain early Thanksgiving day. The steel bed of the pickup truck served not only as a bin for broken glass but also the means of breaking the bottles. Shown left to right, heaving bottles at the truck, are Vigil McCann, jail trusty; George Fowler, deputy sheriff; M. L. Dodson, another trusty, and Guy Bauguess, a deputy."
Date: November 25, 1948
Creator: Meek, Richard B.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

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Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "(photo of Lewis Field's stands with most empty, one section column is almost full, but the rest is empy.)"
Date: November 25, 1967
Creator: Argo, Jim
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

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Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "Empty schoolhouse greeted this young Emerson Elementary pupil Monday. The play gunb and hoister strapped on 7-year-old James R. Leonard, 509 NW 7, 7, indicate he knew there would be no classes. The Oklahoma City school system observed the national day of mourning over the assassination of President Kennedy."
Date: November 25, 1963
Creator: Lucas, Jim
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

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Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Sixteen rooms filled with gracious living are behind this red brick, white stone-trimmed house of former Mayor Robert A. Hefner, at the corner of NW 14 and Robinson. It has been their home 20 years, since they moved here from Ardmore when he was elected a justice of the supreme court."
Date: November 25, 1947
Creator: Cobb, Richard
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

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Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Billowing smoke from acres of burning tires obscures traffic on I-35 Tuesday."
Date: November 25, 1969
Creator: Hill, Ron
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

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Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "A 10-second silence was observed at 11a.m. Monday bu Southwester Bell Telephone switchboard operators. The women stood at their chairs, abandoning buzzing lights for a short time, in memory of President Kennedy."
Date: November 25, 1963
Creator: Tapscott, George
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

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Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "(Photo inside the school's gym with three guys on the basketball court, a person sitting in the stands, and more. Backside handwriting: "Cap Hill Gym.")"
Date: November 25, 1955
Creator: Albright, Bob
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

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Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Carl P. Smith couldn't conceal his pride Wednesday when he saw the three new flagpoles outside First Christian Church, 3700 N Walker. But beautiful as the gleaming, 30-foot standards, were to him, his thoughts irreversibly drifted back to a makeshift flag pole on a spot in North Africa 28 years ago. Smith, 2230 NW 17, will be present Sunday when the new church flagpoles - and American, Oklahoma and Christian flags - are dedicated in an 11:45 a.m. ceremony........He was and Air Force captain and supply officer, he said, and while he and some 400 troops were landed at Bizerte, their supplies went to Oran 0 several hundred miles away........Smith said love of the country's flag "seems to run in our family." he is a brother of Lee Allan Smith, 6033 Riviera, the moving force behind creation of Oklahoma City's Star and Strips Park and organizer of the annual July 4 "Stars and Strips Show" in State Fair Arena."
Date: November 25, 1970
Creator: Wilson, Joe
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

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Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "Debutantes at the 22nd annual Beaux Arts Ball walked between gold topiary trees to make their bows to the king at the end of the ballroom."
Date: November 25, 1967
Creator: Miller, Joe
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

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Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "Heads bowed, members and guests of Westminister Presbyterian Church hear their pastor, Dr. G. Raymond Campbell, call for a return to law and order after the assassination of President Kennedy and the death of his suspected killer. The photo was taken Monday from the balcony as Dr. Campbell followed a processional to the alter. As he stood at the altar, he said: "We gather at the foot of the cross of Christ, shocked, confused and dismayed." Most churches conducted similar services, with a Catholic requiem mass to be said at 8 p.m. in Municipal Auditorium for President Kennedy."
Date: November 25, 1963
Creator: Lucas, Jim
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

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Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Unmbrella-shaped plumes of water burst from a firehouse Tuesday as firemen battled a blaze near NE 10 and I-35. Billowing smoke from acres of burning tires obscured traffic on the freeway, slowing traffic to a crawl. The smoke was visible south of Norman."
Date: November 25, 1969
Creator: Wood, Tony
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

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Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "OCU students file solemntly to special Kennedy memorial service. President Kennedy was eulogized as a "man of courage in war and peace" Monday in memorial services at Oklahoma City University. "He was a man who believed in the brotherhood of man under God. We dedicate ourselves to the principles John F. Kennedy had," said Dr. Dolphus Whitten jr., acting OCU president who spoke at the services. He said those present came with a sense of loos and grief. "The death of any man causes us to die a little. This is certainly true in the death of the president of the United States."
Date: November 25, 1963
Creator: Argo, Jim
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

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Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "(Photo of seven firefighter on the road by the fire truck, a guy at the near far left, a number of people gathered around in the far middle left, and more.)"
Date: November 25, 1969
Creator: Tapscott, George
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

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Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Sometime in 1972 motorists will be able to drive across Oklahoma on I.H. 40, from the Texas line to Arkansas. Until then, the highway will be one of the biggest patchworks on an interstate route in the country. I. H. 40 roughly follows U.S. 66 from Texola, on the Texas line, to Oklahoma City. on east, it will be south of and paralled to U.S. 62 to Henryetta, then south of and parallel to U.S. 266 and U.S. 64 to a point near Fort Smith, Ark. When completed in 1972, I H. 40 will total 330 miles and will have cost more than $208 million. Just how much more is anybody's guess. Within six months, the western leg - U .S. 66 - will be four laned from Texola to the U.S. Reformatory at El Reno, including stretches through Weatherford, Clinton, Elk City, Canute, Sayre, Erick and Texola.........Widening of U. S. 66 to four lanes was started from Texola in 1955, before the interstate system was created by the federal government. Using old U. S. 66 - jammed up against the Rock Island tracks - as the north lane, …
Date: November 25, 1961
Creator: Lucas, Jim
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

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Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "By cars, buses, trains and this very sizeable fleet of private plans, fans poured into Norman Saturday for the important football game between Oklahoma and Nebraska. This aerial view shows 157 plans lined up on the ramp at Norman's Westheimer field, located at the north campus, the old naval air station. only the fact that Saturday was part of the Thanksgiving day holiday weekend and a large part of the OU student body still was away from the campus kept Owen stadium from overflowing with humanity. the crowd was set officially at 54,000, the all-time mark for a Big Seven conference game."
Date: November 25, 1950
Creator: Hauton, Robert
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

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Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "The Royal court of the Beaux Arts Ball appears on the King's stage."
Date: November 25, 1972
Creator: Miller, Joe
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

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Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "After game Bud Wilkinson congatulated Reynolds."
Date: November 25, 1950
Creator: Miller, Joe
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

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Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "(Photo looking towards the stage, a white carpeted walk way from the doors to the stage, two guys in the foreground with one on each side of the carpet, a crowd watching, the king at the far, and more.)"
Date: November 25, 1967
Creator: Miller, Joe
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

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Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "(photo of a kitchen with the faucet in view with the back of the photo saying "Children's Shelter.")"
Date: November 25, 1959
Creator: Cobb, Dick
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

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Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "(Photo of a large group of guys in tuxedos behind the large group of ladies in white dress on a stage.)"
Date: November 25, 1972
Creator: Miller, Joe
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History