March 6, 1950: Time Reports on CAP's Lost Leopard Lookout in OKC

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On this date in 1950, Time magazine reported that the Civil Air Patrol was one of a number of search and rescue groups that joined the search for a leopard that escaped from the Oklahoma City Zoo.

An excerpt from Time:

By noon the next day it seemed that half the citizens in town were out on the roads northeast of the city to watch the hunt. A good many, armed to the teeth and accompanied by a rabble of house dogs, joined in the search. The skirmishing took on the look of a Guatemalan revolution. Civil Air Patrol planes flew low. Cops, zookeepers, deputy sheriffs, volunteer gunmen and a detachment of Marine reservists with M-i rifles and walkie-talkie radios scoured the scrub-oak thickets, flushing out rabbits, house cats, and, occasionally, each other.

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Read more: http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,858642,00.html#ixzz0gWEPVQG7

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