Staged Santa Fe Railway Holdup

Creator

Preview

Identifier

20168442

Description

Shown here are fake bandits fleeing on horseback in the foreground after a staged holdup of the Santa Fe Railway's early-day train and passengers for the Johnson County Centennial's "Santa Fe Day". Pursuing in the background are members of the Johnson County Sheriff's Posse. Published in Fort Worth Star-Telegram morning edition May 4, 1954.

Archival Date

1954-05-03

Collection Name

Fort Worth Star-Telegram Collection

Collection Number

AR406-6-3263

Original Format

Negatives, Black & White

File Format

JPG

Rights

Rights held by The University of Texas at Arlington Libraries, Special Collections. Any use of content downloaded or printed from this page is limited to non-commercial personal or educational use, including fair use as directed by U.S. copyright laws. For more information or for reproduction requests, please contact UTA Special Collections by emailing spcoref@uta.edu.

License

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License

Subjects

People; Events; Horses; Theatrical productions