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1965 · THE OCELOT AND PAUL HARVEY
The theft: In 1965 the Potawatomi Zoo made national news, once. Vandals stole Toro, the zoo's ocelot, and the small spotted cat was found by South Bend city police in the trunk of a car. The theft and recovery were carried on Paul Harvey's newscast — the most widely heard radio news voice in America — and the zoo's own published timeline preserves the episode as the moment the Potawatomi Zoo's name was spoken, once, to the whole country. Toro is the only individual animal of the zoo's first six decades whose name and story the published record keeps whole, and he is printed in the Zoo section at exactly that size: one ocelot, one theft, one police recovery, one national broadcast.
Sources:
- The Zoo section of this history — the Potawatomi Zoo's earlier published history timeline: the theft of Toro the ocelot in 1965, his recovery by city police from a car trunk, and the Paul Harvey newscast.