Oklahoma has such a rich and beautiful history, and Southeastern Oklahoma is not an exception. The following is an excerpt taken from The National magazine article entitled "The Story of Oklahoma", by Joe Mitchell Chapple. Published in April of 1908, it appears to be the...
COWBOY BOB AND BLACK MAGIC: The Story of the Dynamic Death Squad Duo (PART II OF II) CURTIS EDWARD McCARTY On December 10, 1982, 18 year-old Pamela Kaye Willis was found murdered in an Oklahoma City home. The daughter of an Oklahoma City police officer, was found nude, stabbed,...
COWBOY BOB AND BLACK MAGIC: The Story of the Dynamic Death Squad Duo (PART I OF II) Recently I learned of the death of former Oklahoma City forensic chemist Joyce Gilchrist. After much reflection I have decided to write about Ms. Gilchrist and former Oklahoma County District Attorney...
PTL: “PRAISE THE LORD” OR “PASS THE LOOT”? THE TRIAL OF TELEVANGELIST JIM BAKKER I was born and raised in Springfield, Missouri. It's a growing city now, but when I was young it was a relatively close knit town nestled quietly at the step of the Ozarks....
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...