FILE NO. 0197
Content warning: this case file describes the shooting of three young children by their mother, the death of one of them and the injuries to the other two. It contains no photographs of the children.
Diane Downs and the Old Mohawk Road Shootings
Legal status: Elizabeth Diane Downs was convicted by a Lane County, Oregon, jury on June 17, 1984, of murdering her daughter Cheryl Lynn Downs, 7, and of attempted murder and assault for shooting her daughter Christie, 8, and her son Danny, 3, on May 19, 1983. The murder verdict was unanimous; the attempted murder and assault verdicts were split 10 to 2, according to her own court filings as reported by The Oregonian and KEZI. She was sentenced as a dangerous offender to life for the murder plus 30 and 20 years for the attempted murders, according to the Oregon parole board, and received an additional five years for a 1987 prison escape. Her direct appeal, a state post-conviction case and a federal habeas petition all failed, the last in the Ninth Circuit in 2000. She has always said a stranger did the shooting. The Oregon Board of Parole and Post-Prison Supervision denied her parole for the fourth time in December 2025, finding that she remains a danger, and she cannot petition for another hearing until 2031, KPTV reported. A 2024 challenge to the split verdicts and a request for DNA testing were reported as pending in 2026; we found no ruling on either in the sources checked for this file. She was 71 and remained in prison as of the latest reports.
A girl from Phoenix
Late on the night of May 19, 1983, a 27-year-old letter carrier drove her car up to McKenzie-Willamette Hospital in Springfield, Oregon. In the car were her three children. Cheryl Lynn Downs, 7, was dead. Christie, 8, had been shot and had suffered a disabling stroke. Danny, 3, was paralyzed from the waist down. Their mother had a single gunshot wound to her left forearm.
Diane Downs told police that a stranger with “shaggy, brown hair” had flagged her down on a dark country road, demanded her car and opened fire on her children. Nine months later she was arrested and charged with doing it herself. The case against her rested on a gun she had owned and could not produce, on bullets in her home, on witnesses who watched her drive slowly to the hospital, and above all on the testimony of her surviving daughter. She has never admitted the crime. At her most recent parole hearing, in October 2025, she told the board: “I’m innocent of shooting but I am guilty of putting my kids in danger.”
This case file sets out what the courts and the record say about the shootings, the investigation, the trial and the four decades since. Following our policy on minors and adoptees, it names the three children as they appear in the public record and court rulings, but it does not publish the later adoptive names or identities of any of Downs’s children.
Sources: Downs v. Hoyt, 232 F.3d 1031 (9th Cir. 2000); Downs v. Board of Parole, 345 Or App 610 (2025); KPTV, “Diane Downs, convicted of killing 7-year-old daughter in Springfield in 1983, denied parole” (Dec. 16, 2025) and “Diane Downs appears before Oregon parole board after four decades in prison” (Oct. 30, 2025); The Oregonian/OregonLive (Nov. 27, 2024); KEZI (Nov. 4, 2024); Wikipedia, “Diane Downs”; Oregon State Archives via Wikimedia Commons.
She was born Elizabeth Diane Frederickson on August 7, 1955, in Phoenix, Arizona, one of five children of Willadene and Wesley Frederickson. According to Wikipedia’s account, drawn largely from Ann Rule’s 1987 book on the case, the family held strict conservative values and her parents forbade fashionable clothes and makeup; after about 14 she rebelled against their rules. Her mother later said the children were raised “not to be crybabies.” Downs testified that her father had sexually abused her as a child. She later recanted the allegation, and both parents denied it.
At Moon Valley High School in Phoenix she met Steve Downs. She enrolled at Pacific Coast Baptist Bible College in Orange, California, and was expelled after a year. On November 13, 1973, after running away from home, she married Steve, who had joined the Navy. “I did not marry Steve for love”, she said at her trial, “I married Steve to get out of the family”.
Christie Ann was born in 1974 and Cheryl Lynn in 1976. Stephen Daniel, known as Danny, was born in 1979. Downs later testified that Steve had had a vasectomy and that Danny’s father was another man. The marriage was marked by fights over money and infidelity, and the couple divorced in 1980. In May 1982 Downs gave birth to a girl as a paid surrogate mother, despite having twice failed the program’s psychiatric tests, according to Wikipedia.
She took a job with the U.S. Postal Service. In Arizona she began an affair with a married co-worker, Robert Knickerbocker. By the spring of 1983 she was living in Oregon and was responsible for mail routes in Cottage Grove, south of Eugene. Steve Downs later gave a harsh account of her as a mother. According to Wikipedia, he said Cheryl once asked him whether there was a gun in the house, explaining: “I want to kill me. My mom says I’m bad.”
Sources: Wikipedia, “Diane Downs” (citing Ann Rule, Small Sacrifices, 1987, and contemporary Oregon and Washington newspapers).
The night on Old Mohawk Road
Downs’s account, as she gave it to police, was this. Shortly before 10:30 p.m., driving home from a friend’s house with the three children in the car, she stopped on Old Mohawk Road, a rural road near Springfield, because a man flagged her down. She got out. The man demanded her car. She pretended to throw her keys into a bush. The man walked to the car and shot her children with a small-caliber pistol, then came back toward her, shot her in the arm and ran north around a curve in the road. She described him as having “shaggy, brown hair” and a “stubble beard.” She said she then drove to the hospital at “high speed”.
The children were rushed into treatment. Cheryl could not be saved. Christie survived but had suffered a stroke that, for a time, left her unable to speak. Danny survived, paralyzed from the waist down.
Hospital staff and detectives noticed her manner from the first night. According to Wikipedia, they believed her demeanor was too calm for someone who had just been through such an attack, and she made remarks that both police and hospital workers considered highly inappropriate. Suspicions grew when, at the hospital, she phoned Robert Knickerbocker, the married former co-worker in Arizona with whom she had been having an affair.
Her story also shifted. In an interview with The Oregonian on June 9, 1983, she said the children had been asleep at the time. By the time of her trial she was describing a physical struggle: the man shot her in the left arm during a fight, opened the driver’s door, shot the children, and she escaped because she pretended to throw away her keys and he went looking for them. Years later, Lane County District Attorney Douglas Harcleroad told the parole board that she had alternately blamed “a bushy-haired stranger, two men wearing ski masks, or drug dealers and corrupt law enforcement officials.”
Sources: Wikipedia, “Diane Downs” (citing The Oregonian, June 10, 1983, and the Register-Guard); Downs v. Hoyt, 232 F.3d 1031 (9th Cir. 2000); The Oregonian/OregonLive (Nov. 27, 2024).
What investigators found
The physical evidence did not fit a man firing through the driver’s door. According to Wikipedia, there was no blood spatter on the driver’s side of the car and no gunpowder residue on the driver’s door or the interior door panel.
Downs did not tell police she owned a .22 caliber handgun. Both her former husband and Knickerbocker told investigators that she did, and investigators traced the purchase to Arizona during her marriage. The gun was never found. But in her home detectives found unfired .22 cartridges. As the Ninth Circuit later summarized the trial evidence, “Ballistics experts testified that bullets taken from Downs’s home had extractor marks identical to cartridge casings found at the crime scene.” The marks came from a .22 caliber Ruger semiautomatic pistol, which the court described as “the same make of a firearm which Downs had possessed and used previously.” The murder weapon was never recovered.
Witnesses told police they had seen her car moving toward the hospital very slowly, at an estimated 5 to 7 mph, which contradicted her account of a high-speed dash. Knickerbocker, according to Wikipedia, told police that Downs had stalked him and seemed willing to kill his wife to have him to herself, and that he was relieved when she left for Oregon.
Detectives also found what they took to be a motive. The Oregonian reported that her diary suggested she was obsessed with a man who did not want children. Prosecutors argued that she shot her children to be free of them so that she could continue the affair, because, she said, Knickerbocker had made it known that he did not want children in his life.
Then there was Christie. She had been aphasic, unable to communicate with speech, when she first woke after the shooting. The Ninth Circuit described her first substantive interview, on June 1, 1983, in the presence of a doctor and a nurse: she “remembered going for a ride with her mother, sister, and brother and no one else in the car on the day she was hurt, and that there were no males present on the night of the shooting.”
On February 28, 1984, nine months after the shooting, Downs was arrested and charged with one count of murder and two counts each of attempted murder and criminal assault.
Sources: Downs v. Hoyt, 232 F.3d 1031 (9th Cir. 2000); Wikipedia, “Diane Downs”; The Oregonian/OregonLive (Nov. 27, 2024).
The trial
The trial in Lane County Circuit Court lasted six weeks, according to the Ninth Circuit. The lead prosecutor was Fred Hugi.
The heart of the state’s case was Christie, then 9, who took the stand and said her mother had shot her. The Ninth Circuit summarized her testimony this way: she testified that “she saw her mother open the trunk of her car and then shoot each of the three children.” According to Wikipedia, she described how her mother shot all three children while parked at the side of the road and then shot herself in the arm. The state paired her account with the ballistic evidence, the forensic findings in the car, the slow drive to the hospital and the missing gun.
A prosecution psychiatrist testified that Downs had narcissistic, histrionic and antisocial personality disorders. According to Wikipedia, the testimony included the statement: “she shows no remorse. She regards her children with no empathy and as objects or possessions.” During a four-day cross-examination, a prosecutor asked Downs whether she had been “labeled a deviant sociopath” by the tests a psychologist she had consulted before trial had given her. She answered that the psychologist had not discussed names, only “different qualities that I carried at that time.”
Downs testified in her own defense and maintained that a stranger had done the shooting. Christie’s initial lack of memory was brought out at trial, the Ninth Circuit noted. The defense had other material it chose not to use. A hospital staff doctor, Dr. Jerome Vergamini, had interviewed Christie and Danny shortly after the shooting, and Christie had told him she did not remember the shooting; trial counsel decided not to call him, judging that it offered “very little, if any, benefit and a great deal of risk”. A police report found that fingerprints on the trunk of the car were not Downs’s; counsel did not use it, later saying he feared jurors might suspect she had wiped away her own prints.
On June 17, 1984, the jury convicted Downs on all counts. The Oregonian, reviewing her later court filing, reported that the murder verdict was unanimous, with the judge confirming that with the jury foreperson. The jury was split on the attempted murder and assault counts, which KEZI reported as 10 to 2 votes on four charges. Split verdicts were accepted in Oregon at the time; decades later, rulings by the U.S. Supreme Court in 2020 and the Oregon Supreme Court in 2022 declared them unconstitutional, as The Oregonian put it.
One moment in the closing argument later became an appeal issue. The prosecutor, during an eight-hour closing, read aloud a statement in which Danny identified his mother as the shooter, from a portion of his medical records that the court had excluded. The Ninth Circuit called it uncontested that the prosecutor read it inadvertently, and noted that he immediately told the jury he did not consider it competent evidence of guilt, then apologized when the defense objected.
She was sentenced as a dangerous offender to life in prison for Cheryl’s murder, plus 30 years and 20 years for the attempted murders of Christie and Danny, as the parole board later described the sentence. Wikipedia and KEZI summarize it as life plus 50 years. She had to serve 25 years before she could be considered for parole, and according to Wikipedia the judge made clear that he did not intend her ever to be free again.
A month after the trial, Downs gave birth to a fifth child, a daughter conceived before her arrest. The State of Oregon took custody of the baby, who was adopted. This case file does not publish the adoptive identities of any of Downs’s children.
Sources: Downs v. Hoyt, 232 F.3d 1031 (9th Cir. 2000); Downs v. Board of Parole, 345 Or App 610 (2025); Wikipedia, “Diane Downs”; The Oregonian/OregonLive (Nov. 27, 2024); KEZI (Nov. 4, 2024).
Escape and ten days on the run
Downs began her sentence at the Oregon women’s prison in Salem. On July 11, 1987, she escaped by scaling an 18-foot razor wire fence, according to Wikipedia. She stayed free for ten days, despite a manhunt that Wikipedia describes as covering fourteen states, before she was recaptured. She received an additional five-year sentence for the escape.
After the escape, Oregon officials agreed she should not be held in the state because of the risk to her surviving children if she got out again. She was moved to the Clinton Correctional Facility for Women in New Jersey, and in 1994 to the California prison system, where she earned an associate degree. In 2010 she was held at the Valley State Prison for Women in Chowchilla, California, and was moved when that prison was converted to house men in 2013. The Oregonian reported in November 2024 that she was at the Central California Women’s Facility. She remains an Oregon prisoner for parole purposes, and her hearings are held by Oregon’s board.
Sources: Wikipedia, “Diane Downs”; The Oregonian/OregonLive (Nov. 27, 2024); KPTV (Oct. 30 and Dec. 16, 2025).
Appeals: the Ninth Circuit’s review
The Oregon Court of Appeals affirmed her conviction without opinion, and the Oregon Supreme Court declined review in 1987. A state post-conviction court heard testimony from the trial participants and granted her relief only on two claims related to restitution and sentencing. That ruling was affirmed in 1993, and the Oregon Supreme Court declined review in 1994.
Her federal habeas corpus petition, filed in Oregon in 1996 after an earlier California filing was dismissed, raised nine claims. The district court allowed a year of discovery, then denied the petition in February 1999. On November 15, 2000, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit affirmed. Its opinion is the most detailed public account of her challenges:
- The 100 leads. Downs said the state had not given her information on some 100 leads in the sheriff’s file, including a note about a caller who had overheard a man say he thought he knew the killer but was afraid to come forward because the killer was affiliated with the Free Souls motorcycle gang. The court found the material amounted to investigative leads, not evidence that would have changed the result.
- Destroyed notes. She argued that a deputy, identified in the opinion as Deputy Pond, had destroyed handwritten notes about other suspects in bad faith. The court found no showing of bad faith or exculpatory value.
- Christie’s testimony. Downs argued that her daughter’s memory had been tainted by at least eighty interviews, a number the state “vigorously disputes,” and by suggestive questioning while in state custody. The court found no due process violation and noted Christie’s June 1, 1983, interview in which she said no men were present that night.
- Actual innocence. Downs tried to get past procedural bars by claiming she was innocent, submitting affidavits that, in the court’s words, “contain conflicting versions of another person’s ‘confession.'” The court rejected the claim and said her innocence argument was “undermined by the compelling ballistic evidence.”
The court also rejected her claims about the closing argument, the “deviant sociopath” question, counsel’s decisions not to call Dr. Vergamini or use the fingerprint report, a jury instruction and the denial of a continuance to change lawyers. “As the state court’s decision was not clearly erroneous, we AFFIRM the district court’s denial of Downs’s habeas petition,” the opinion concluded.
Sources: Downs v. Hoyt, 232 F.3d 1031 (9th Cir. 2000), via Public.Resource.Org.
Parole: four denials
Because she was sentenced as a dangerous offender for crimes committed before November 1989, Downs cannot be paroled unless the board finds she is no longer dangerous, or that she remains dangerous but can be adequately controlled with supervision and mental health treatment, the Oregon Court of Appeals explained in 2025.
Her first parole hearing was held on December 9, 2008. In her application she wrote: “over the years, I have told you and the rest of the world that a man shot me and my children. I have never changed my story.” Douglas Harcleroad, then the Lane County district attorney, wrote to the board: “Downs continues to fail to demonstrate any honest insight into her criminal behavior… even after her convictions, she continues to fabricate new versions of events under which the crimes occurred.” According to Wikipedia, she answered questions for three hours and the board deliberated for thirty minutes before denying parole. She was denied again in 2010 and 2020.
Her fourth hearing was held virtually in October 2025 and lasted several hours, KPTV reported. She again denied the shooting. “I’m innocent of shooting but I am guilty of putting my kids in danger,” she told the board. “That is something I have never reconciled. Through all the classes I have not reconciled that. I can’t. There is no excuse for it. There is no changing it. There is no going back for it, and there is no forgiveness for that.”
In December 2025 the board denied parole. A board representative told KPTV that it found Downs “has a mental or emotional disturbance, deficiency, condition, or disorder predisposing her to the commission of any crime to a degree rendering her a danger to the health or safety of others; therefore, the condition which made her dangerous is not in remission and she does continue to remain a danger.” She will not be eligible to petition for another hearing until 2031, according to the board.
The same month, on December 10, 2025, the Oregon Court of Appeals rejected a separate challenge she had brought, without a lawyer, to the board’s refusal to grant her an interim hearing. She had argued she was entitled to hearings every two years under the 1984 law, that psychiatric reports showed she “never did suffer from a severe personality disorder,” and that her court-ordered sentence had expired on May 9, 2024. The court affirmed the board, saying the last argument “starts from an incorrect premise” because she is serving a life sentence.
Sources: KPTV (Oct. 30 and Dec. 16, 2025); Downs v. Board of Parole, 345 Or App 610 (2025), nonprecedential memorandum opinion; Wikipedia, “Diane Downs” (citing the Register-Guard).
New challenges: split verdicts and DNA
In February 2024 Downs filed a petition for post-conviction relief in Marion County Circuit Court, according to KEZI. She relies on the U.S. Supreme Court’s 2020 ruling and the Oregon Supreme Court’s 2022 ruling on split-jury convictions. Because the murder verdict was unanimous, the petition targets only the attempted murder and assault convictions, which she says were decided by 10 to 2 votes. She filed it on her own; the court then appointed attorney Venetia Mayhew, and a judge granted an extension in late October 2024 while Mayhew gathered evidence. LegalClarity, a legal explainer site, reported in July 2026 that the petition was still pending. Even if it succeeds, it would not touch the murder conviction or the life sentence.
After her October 2025 parole hearing, KPTV reported that her attorney planned to file a DNA motion, and that the defense hoped new evidence would reveal what it called “the whole truth.” According to LegalClarity, citing the Register-Guard, Downs appeared in the Lane County courthouse in Eugene on May 18, 2026, to ask for DNA testing of items collected on Old Mohawk Road in 1983, including a piece of used chewing gum, beer cans and a rock panel, and a ruling was expected about a month later. We found no published ruling in the sources checked for this file. Any claim that DNA would point to another shooter is Downs’s position, not a finding of any court.
Sources: KEZI (Nov. 4, 2024); The Oregonian/OregonLive (Nov. 27, 2024); KPTV (Oct. 30, 2025); LegalClarity, “Diane Downs Today: Parole Denials and Legal Challenges” (July 3, 2026).
Small Sacrifices
The case became one of the best known in Oregon history. The Oregonian has called it one of the most infamous murder cases in the state. The true crime writer Ann Rule published Small Sacrifices in 1987, the year of the escape. The book drew on accounts from friends, neighbors and acquaintances, and from Christie. In 1989 ABC aired a television film of the same name starring Farrah Fawcett as Downs.
Downs has disputed that version of events for decades. Her account, repeated at every parole hearing, is that a stranger shot her children and that she was guilty only of putting them in danger.
Sources: The Oregonian/OregonLive (Nov. 27, 2024); Wikipedia, “Diane Downs”; KPTV (Dec. 16, 2025).
Where the accounts disagree
- Her own story. Downs first described a lone carjacker who shot the children while she stood outside the car. In a June 1983 newspaper interview she said the children were asleep. At trial she described a struggle in which she was shot first. Prosecutors later said she had also blamed two men in ski masks, or drug dealers and corrupt officials.
- The drive to the hospital. Downs said she drove at “high speed”. Witnesses estimated 5 to 7 mph.
- Christie’s interviews. Downs’s lawyers said Christie was interviewed at least eighty times before trial. The state “vigorously disputes” that number, according to the Ninth Circuit.
- The verdicts. The murder verdict was unanimous. The Oregonian and KEZI, citing her filings, report 10 to 2 votes on the attempted murder and assault counts. KEZI counts four such charges.
- The sentence. Wikipedia and KEZI summarize it as life plus 50 years. The parole board describes life for the murder plus 30 and 20 years for the attempted murders. The two descriptions are consistent; the escape added five years.
- The prison she escaped from. Wikipedia calls it the Oregon Women’s Correctional Center; The Oregonian calls it the Oregon Women’s Correctional Institution. Both place it in Salem.
- Where she is held. LegalClarity describes her as held in the Oregon prison system. The Oregonian reported in 2024 that she was held in California, at the Central California Women’s Facility, which matches her transfer history.
- Timing of the split verdict case. The Oregonian reported in November 2024 that her lawyer expected to file a revised petition the next year. LegalClarity’s 2026 summary of the same report gives the year as 2027. We follow The Oregonian.
- Spelling. KEZI spells her surviving daughter’s name “Christy.” Court records and most other sources use “Christie.”
Sources: As cited in the sections above.
Timeline
- August 7, 1955: Elizabeth Diane Frederickson is born in Phoenix, Arizona.
- November 13, 1973: She marries Steve Downs.
- 1974, 1976, 1979: Christie, Cheryl and Danny are born.
- 1980: The Downses divorce.
- May 19, 1983: Cheryl Lynn Downs, 7, is killed and Christie and Danny are wounded on Old Mohawk Road near Springfield, Oregon. Downs blames a stranger.
- June 1, 1983: In her first substantive interview, Christie says no men were present that night.
- February 28, 1984: Downs is arrested and charged with murder, attempted murder and assault.
- June 17, 1984: A Lane County jury convicts her on all counts.
- 1987: The Oregon Court of Appeals affirms; the Oregon Supreme Court declines review. Ann Rule’s Small Sacrifices is published.
- July 11, 1987: Downs escapes from the Salem women’s prison. She is recaptured ten days later and later moved to New Jersey.
- 1989: ABC airs the Small Sacrifices TV film.
- 1994: She is transferred to the California prison system.
- November 15, 2000: The Ninth Circuit affirms the denial of her habeas petition.
- December 9, 2008: Her first parole hearing; parole is denied.
- 2010 and 2020: Parole is denied again.
- February 2024: She files a petition in Marion County challenging the split verdicts.
- October 2025: Her fourth parole hearing, held virtually.
- December 2025: The board denies parole; she cannot petition again until 2031. The Oregon Court of Appeals affirms the board’s denial of an interim hearing.
- May 18, 2026: She asks a Lane County court for DNA testing of 1983 crime scene items, according to LegalClarity.
Sources: As cited in the sections above.
Frequently asked questions
What did Diane Downs do?
A jury found that on May 19, 1983, she shot her three children in her car on Old Mohawk Road near Springfield, Oregon, killing Cheryl, 7, and wounding Christie, 8, and Danny, 3, then shot herself in the arm and drove to the hospital. She was convicted of murder, attempted murder and assault in 1984.
Has she ever confessed?
No. She has always said a stranger did the shooting. At her 2025 parole hearing she said she was “innocent of shooting” but guilty of putting her children in danger.
What was the evidence against her?
Christie testified that she saw her mother shoot the children. Ballistics experts matched extractor marks on unfired bullets from Downs’s home to casings at the scene, from the same make of pistol she had owned. There was no blood spatter or gunpowder residue on the driver’s side, and witnesses saw her drive slowly to the hospital.
Is Diane Downs still in prison?
Yes, as of the latest reports. The Oregon parole board denied her parole in December 2025 and said she cannot petition for another hearing until 2031.
Could her convictions be overturned?
She has a pending challenge to the attempted murder and assault convictions based on rulings against split jury verdicts, and she has asked for DNA testing. The murder verdict was unanimous, so the split verdict challenge does not affect it. We found no ruling on either request in the sources checked for this file.
What happened to her children?
Christie and Danny survived. Both were later adopted, as was a daughter born after the trial. Following our policy, this case file does not publish their adoptive identities.
Sources: As cited in the sections above.
Citations & Sources
Citations & Sources
Every source cited in the sections above, in one list. Online sources were consulted on October 28, 2026, except where another date is given.
Court records
- U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, via Public.Resource.Org, Downs v. Hoyt, 232 F.3d 1031, filed November 15, 2000.
- Oregon Court of Appeals, Oregon Judicial Department, Downs v. Board of Parole, A183460, 345 Or App 610, nonprecedential memorandum opinion, December 10, 2025.
News
- KPTV, Diane Downs, convicted of killing 7-year-old daughter in Springfield in 1983, denied parole, December 16, 2025.
- KPTV, Diane Downs appears before Oregon parole board after four decades in prison, October 30, 2025.
- Noelle Crombie, The Oregonian/OregonLive, Oregon child killer Diane Downs appeals sentence, citing court rulings on nonunanimous verdicts, November 27, 2024.
- Chelsea Deffenbacher and Robert Desaulniers, KEZI 9 News, Convicted child killer Diane Downs files petition claiming wrongful conviction, November 4, 2024.
Secondary
- LegalClarity Team, LegalClarity, Diane Downs Today: Parole Denials and Legal Challenges, July 3, 2026.
Wikipedia
- Wikipedia, Diane Downs.
Images
- Gary Halvorson, Oregon State Archives, Eugene, Lane County Courthouse and Public Service Building ‐ DPLA ‐ 0070d851b44f0a43a0b58a34dd71d401.jpg, Wikimedia Commons. CC BY 4.0.
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Image credits
- Photo: Gary Halvorson, Oregon State Archives, via Wikimedia Commons. CC BY 4.0.
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