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A bank robbery gone wrong in Ketchum, Oklahoma


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he lives of four men and their families were forever changed on a hot Thursday morning of August 9th, 1923 in Ketchum, Craig County, Oklahoma during a bank robbery that just didn't go as planned. Three of the men were bank robbers who just killed a man, who didn't get their money and were on the run. The fourth man, an innocent bank cashier, Frank Pitts, who lay dead on the bank floor in a pool of his own blood. The aftermath of this tragedy causes the Govenor of Oklahoma to lose the Senator's candidacy and another man to lose his life in the electric chair.

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