Talk:Tom Mix

Place of death

Note to the anonymous poster who put discussion about place of death in the article - please put such discussion here on the Talk page, not in the article itself. - DavidWBrooks 20:24, 8 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Just for the record, here is the snippet that DavidWBrooks deleted: "I do not believe the place of death is correct. He actually died some time after the accident in a hospital in Los Angeles, CA. Tom Mix had a rare bllod type and some was rushed to L.A by plane.My father who was a California Highway Patrolman at the time took the blood from the Airport to the Hospital. It was widely reported in the newspapers at the time."

This story is inconsistent with the written recollections of Mix's wife, Olive Stokes as found on this page: http://www.cinemaweb.com/silentfilm/bookshelf/index.htm Looks like Mix died at the scene. --Lockley 20:04, 12 Jun 2005 (UTC)

seatbelt

The statement "He was wearing his seat belt" during the accident was inaccurate. The automotive seat belt was patented in 1956 and the first cars so equipped were Volvos in 1959. Seat belts were not even introduce on aircraft until the 1930s.

museum theft

Hope this information is appropriate here.

Here is info on all handguns and serial numbers that were stolen from the TM Museum on 4-13-02:

Smith & Wesson 357 Magnum 55668 Colt 38 special 56131 Derringer, single shot, no number S & W 38 special 12716 Colt Bisley 45 299014 Iver Johnson 22 202 Colt 38 453520 Colt 38-40 330558 Colt 38 530719 Colt 38 630719 Colt 38 456131 S & W 32-44 2102 Colt 38 524511 matched pair of Colts, serial nos. 530719 and 524511

In December, 2004, there were some arrests made.