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[Photograph 2012.201.B1376.0312]

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Western swing musician Johnnie Lee Wills, 72, dies in a Tulsa hospital of a heart ailment."

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Source context

Visible Gateway description identifies Johnnie Lee Wills and the role western swing musician. Creation information: ; 1984. Source: Daily Oklahoman, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, October 26, 1984. Collection: Oklahoma Publishing Company Photography Collection.

Oklahoma connection

Gateway caption identifies western swing musician Johnnie Lee Wills and his Oklahoma-linked death in a Tulsa hospital.

People, groups, or instruments recorded

western swing musician

Reading this source

This is a narrow genre-band wording capture, not a full biography or identity resolution. Supporting group/event context does not establish individual instrument playing. Exact Oklahoma origin, duplicate relationships, cultural protocol, and republication rights require separate review. Per-page local hashes are recorded in the Markdown record.

Sources

  1. gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc755750/