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SUICIDE
BLOXOM LIVE:
A legendary texas oil pioneer---"4gR Odie R. Seagraves
of Hunt, leaped to his death this morning from his
8th floor room at the Southland Hotel in Downtown Dalla:
He left behind a note ead "this is the onlyTAKE FILM:
BLOXOM LIVE:
The v year old Seagraves helped
thing owtod
found both Texas Gulf Sulphur, and United Gas,(at one
controlled
tim oil and gas properties valued at 10-b 9ion
dollars.
Texas oil historian James A. Clark of Houston said
Seagraves' career was a constant shift from rags to
riches. Clark said Seagraves was the most colorful
single oil pioneer in the nation. IY 1956, Seagraves
was convicted of stealing secret maps from the GulfOil corporation, and fined 5-thousand dollars.
later appealed the conviction, and it was dropped by
Gul6. He - settled a 400-thousand-dollar
tax suit last year, brought a, -ainst him by the Federa:Government. 3D
I know to do.
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WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.). [News Script: Suicide], script, January 19, 1970, 6:00 p.m.; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc1263380/m1/1/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting UNT Libraries Special Collections.