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Out of the Morgue
Landmark rulings and desperadoes in the streets in 1954
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The cutline in the May 16, 1954 Great Bend Daily Tribune read, Masked desperadoes swooped down Saturday morning on three Unsuspecting residents and carried them off on horseback. The gunmen successfully nabbed L.L. Plunkett from the Home Appliance store, shown above; then went to the Security State bank and to the Missouri Pacific station for their other two victims. All gunmenand their unwilling victims are members of the Big Bend saddle club who pulled off the stunt to advertise the Centennial parade that began at 10 a.m. - photo by Tribune file photo
Each week we’ll take a step back into the history of Great Bend through the eyes of reporters past. We’ll reacquaint you with what went into creating the Great Bend of today, and do our best to update you on what “the rest of the story” turned out to be.On May 17, 1954, the Supreme Court passed down its ruling on the historic Brown vs. Board of Education of Topeka lawsuit, which was the beginning of the end of segregation in our country.