Weve partnered with cox to communications to learn about the history and literary life of tulsa, oklahoma,. Woody guthrie is the most famous for his writing of this land is your land but he was very much more than that. He was born in 1912, and so were very proud to have his work back in oklahoma where we think it belongs. He was an advocate for people who were disenfranchised, for those people who were Migrant Workers from oklahoma, kansas and texas during the dust bowl era who are found themselves in california literally starving. Antisaw this vast difference between those who were the house and the house not and he became their spokesman through the his music. He recorded very key songs of his own very few songs of his own. We have a listing station that features for six of his own song in his own voice. This land is your land this land is my land from california to the New York Island watch all of our events from tulsa saturday at noon eastern on cspan2s booktv and sunday afternoon
Mechanic for several years and left in the 90s, moved to texas. According to the criminal complaint were looking through, he became increasingly radicalized in the late 90s. He then became an engineer for American Airlines a mechanic, i should say, for American Airlines. In 2001 a former employee he worked with at American Airlines tipped off the fbi that he was sympathizing with Osama Bin Laden at time that he made some alarming remarks. So he was put on the fbis radar back in 2001. Clearly they felt like they didnt have enough to build a case on him. So he went on to travel overseas and be an aviation mechanic overseas. In fact he was an Army Contractor in iraq for a period of time, according to the criminal complaint. He worked for several private Companies Working on airplane engines. According to the complaint s in january, early january, he tried to cross over into syria from turkey to join isis and fight violent jihad. Apparently turkish authorities asked him if they could look
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