A Bank Job, a Double Murder, an Old Cavalry Post and a Museum

Reflections on micro and macro history

At 10:30 a.m. on Sunday Dec. 26, 1948, a janitor let himself in the Amarillo American National Bank at 407 Polk St. to clean the lobby and offices ahead of the coming work week. He soon discovered that in a manner of speaking the financial institution had already been “cleaned.”