Resource Type

[Photograph 2012.201.B0411.0178]

Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Duane Farris, Oklahoma City Marine, looks enough like that poster model and showed enough leadership and character to emerge from boot camp at San Diego as a platoon honor man in Oklahoma's Buddy company."
Date: April 24, 1954
Creator: United States. Marine Corps.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0236.0179]

Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "World tennis champ Maureen Connolly, serving as a news reporter, interviews movie stars Aldo Ray and Tab Hunter at the Marine Corps Recruit Depot, San Diego, location of Warner Bros. currently filming Cinemascope production "Battle Cry."
Date: May 20, 1954
Creator: Woods, Jack
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History