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John Morrison

Case from Sasakwa City, OK dated Jul 17, 1907

Victim Details

John Morrison

Male

White / Caucasian

Sasakwa City

OK

1907-07-17

37

John

Morrison

06/22/2026

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On the night of July 17, 1907, Deputy U.S. Marshal John W. Morrison was working in and around Sasakwa City, a small community in what would soon become Seminole County, Oklahoma, when routine law enforcement duty turned into a deadly encounter. At 37 years old, he was a white male lawman serving both as a deputy U.S. marshal and as the marshal of Sasakwa City, tasked with bringing order to a rough landscape of new towns, scattered farms, and thinly policed roads at the edge of statehood.
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