COUNTERFEIT DEMOCRACY: A STORY OF ABSOLUTE POWER CORUPTING ABSOLUTELY By Blake Lynch The History of the Tribes that currently find themselves in the State of Oklahoma is an important and well documented subject, and not one that I am an expert on by any stretch of the imagination....
The Wounded Knee Incident began on February, 27, 1973 when approximately 200 Ogala Lakota Indians and other followers of the American Indian Movement (AIM) seized and occupied the town of Wounded Knee, South Dakota, on the pine Ridge Indian Reservation. The significance of Wounded Knee...
BOARDING: ST. LOUIS TO TULSA THE UNBELIEVABLY TRUE STORY OF AMERICAN AIRLINES FLIGHT 119 In November of 1971 a man calling himself D.B. Cooper hijacked a Northwest Ailines Boeing 727, and after collecting a $200,00.00 ransom, parachuted from the aircraft never to be heard from again. Cooper's...
Cassius Marsellus CLAY, Jr. also known as Muhammad Ali, Petitioner, v. UNITED STATES. THE STORY OF "THE GREATEST" AND HIS GREATEST FIGHT Cassius Marsellus Clay was born January 17, 1942 in Louisville, Kentucky. He would eventually go down in history as perhaps the greatest boxing champion of...
THE DECLARARTION OF INDEPENDANCE: What were the signers saying? The Declaration of Independence as written by Thomas Jefferson, and adopted by the thirteen colonies of the United States of America was perhaps one of the greatest documents ever written. It gave birth to a nation, and...
COCAINE, LIES AND VIDEOTAPE The trial of John DeLorean. PART I The year was 1982, and indulgence was the theme of the day. Feathered hair, flashy clothes, personal computers like the Commodore 64, were finding their way into American homes, and cocaine was the party drug of...
THE "LITTLE LINDBERGH LAW" AND THE STORY OF OKLAHOMAN, ARTHUR GOOCH. The 1920s were nicknamed "the roaring twenties" for a reason. Americans were feeling good on the heels of victory in the WWI, and this ushered in a time of self-indulgence and pleasure. Women cut their...
THE INNOCENT MAN THAT WAS SENTENCED TO OKLAHOMA'S DEATH ROW-THE STORY OF RONALD WILLIAMSON Ron Williamson was born in Ada Oklahoma on February 3rd, 1953. Ron was a natural athlete and excelled in several sports, but his primary interest was baseball. As is usually the case...
Mary Jane Rathbun, better known as "Brownie Mary" was a hospital volunteer at San Francisco General Hospital. She was most well known for baking illegal cannabis brownies for AIDS patients. In 1992 she was arrested and charged with distribution in Sonoma County, California, and was...