Photograph of a LeTourneau Industries hotel, which was designed by Evelyn LeTourneau of Longview, Texas. Evelyn was married to Robert G. LeTourneau, the founder of LeTourneau Industries. The photograph shows an aerial view of the hotel, which was built in Vicksburg, Mississippi.

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Tommy Gray, Seminole, senior University of Oklahoma football player, is now on his third trip to the Sooners' training camp at Biloxi, Miss., and knows his way around the Buena Vista hotel, OU's Biloxi home."

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Don't worry about the Sooner football secrets getting out at Biloxi where the Oklahoma eleven is training. Back on the job is that talented spycatcher of last year, Dr. C. B. McDonald, Oklahoma City dentist. It was McDonald who unmasked an LSU snooper last year and he's in Biloxi now with the advance guard of Sooner fans."

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "All of a football player's time training for the Sugar bowl is not sweat and tears. Sooner halfback Frank Silva and his pretty wife at the Biloxi boat harbor."

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Two Oklahoma former convicts tabbed "real bad boys" by the FBI, Thursday were being held under heavy bond in Tupelo, Miss., after their capture in Corinth, Miss."

Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Two Oklahoma former convicts, tabbed "real bad boys" by the FBI , Thursday were being held under heavy bond in Tupelo, Miss., after their capture in Corinth , Miss."

Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Low scores in the qualifying round of the women's Trans-Mississippi golf championship are shown above. from the left are Mary Ann Downey of Baltimore, the medalist with a 76."

Photograph of a Series "G" Tree Crusher manufactured at the Vicksburg plan. Author Eric Orlemann said this model was 20 feet wide and weighed 150 tons.

Photograph of the Series "G" Tree Crusher No. 5 model. According to Eric Orlemann, this unit had its two diesel-electric generator sets mounted side by side. The inscription on the side of the cab reads "LeTourneau Tree Crusher. Made by Mississippi Division of R.G. LeTourneau, Inc., Longview, Texas.

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Two participants from Oklahoma to the Tulane University-sponsored Southern Assembly now in session at Biloxi, Miss., are Willis J. Wheat, assistant dean of the school of business, Oklahoma City Univ. (left) , and H. V. Thornton, director of govt. research bureau at Univ. of Oklahoma, right. Center is C. Read Granberry, executive director of the Texas Legislative Council, Austin, discussion chair."

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Visiting in the city are Mr. and Mrs. James R. West, Jackson, Miss., and their son James Lee West, 4 months."

Photograph of the tong on Series "F" Log Stacker (Model C-4) shown picking up a log. According to author Eric Orlemann, LeTourneau got into the log-stacking business after selling the original company to Westinghouse in 1953 and agreeing not to build earthmoving equipment for five years. It proved to be highly successful. The log stackers were used all over North America as well as overseas.

Photograph of a completed offshore oil rig located in the Gulf of Mexico. The rig was built at the LeTourneau Industries oil rig building facility near Vicksburg, Mississippi, which began operation in 1944.

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "The wife of a slain OKC World War II hero said Saturday she "didn't mean to kill him - just scare him." Mrs. Marie Underwood is being held in a Biloxi, Miss., jail, pending investigation into the murder of her husband, Sgt. Dave Underwood, who was shot to death with a.22 rifle while the couple argued in their trailer home near the local air force base where he was stationed. The couple had been married almost 13 years, but neighbors said they often quarreled, and Mrs. Underwood had accused her husband of excessive drinking and abuse. He was shot after returning home from a local bar. Underwood's family members are rallying around Marie, and are offering support, arranging for bond as well as offering to bring her back to OKC from Biloxi."

Photograph of the LeTourneau Industries oil rig building facility near Vicksburg, Mississippi, which began operation in 1944. The photograph shows the final testing for the jack named Vinegaroo built in 1957 by Marathon LeTourneau Vicksburg for Zapata Drilling.

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Lee Mach Stephens, whose sitting, Hazel Stephens was graduated from Chilocco and is now a nurse's aide in the Choctaw Hospital at Philadelphia, Miss."

Photograph of the LeTourneau Industries oil rig building facility near Vicksburg, Mississippi, which began operation in 1944. The photograph shows three rigs under construction.

Photograph of Bill behind his son in front of a home. Bill is shown wearing a hat and holding a cigar in his right hand.

Photograph of Bill, Bill's wife, child and Marie Edwards standing in a doorway. Bill is standing between his wife and Marie Edwards. Bill is wearing a hat and tie.

Photograph of (l to r): Bill's wife, Bill, and Marie Edwards sitting on a couch. Bill is shown wearing a hat with his arms and legs crossed. Marie Edwards is the sister of Charles Edwards.

Photograph of Bill with his children and Jewel Kennedy Young. Young is shown holding one of Bill's children in front of a doorway. One of the children is wearing clothing with stripes.

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "The flight came during the governor's visit to the Oklahoma Air Guard's training exercise in Gulfport, Miss."