[News Script: Prison break] Page: 1 of 2
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PRISON BREAK
LIVE:HIX Five of 9 convicts who made the biggest prison
break in Oklahoma history were back in custody today.
One was captured last night within hours afterit
was discovered the 9 had tunneled their way out of
the prison near McAlester, Oklahoma Four others
were apprehended overnight.
None was armed and none offered resistance. All
five were found in the McAlester area.
Two of the five were serving sentences for murder.
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WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.). [News Script: Prison break], script, February 17, 1973, 6:00 p.m.; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc1735182/m1/1/?q=%22%22~1: accessed June 27, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting UNT Libraries Special Collections.