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an embassy [inaudible] returned from reporting in tulsa. let me get both of you this. caleb, beginning with you, i don t presume to direct you, and your response to what you heard the president say today. i want to give you an opportunity to react to his speech or any other aspect of this 100-year marking of this tragic event. lawrence, thank you so much. it s hard to underestimate the potency of the president were counting for americans and the world exactly what happened. in doing so with graphic detail that i quite frankly as a tilson, or a native tolson, growing up and going to tulsa high school, i never ever heard. there is something quite potent about that. it also then illustrates the
Dec 20, 2020
Dec 20, 2020
On this day 217 years ago, on Dec. 20, 1803, the Louisiana Purchase was completed as ownership of the territory was formally transferred from France to the United States.
The area included most of present-day Oklahoma.
It took about another 104 years before the Oklahoma s constitution would be approved, leading to statehood in 1907.
Here s a look back at Oklahoma in 1907:
Oklahoma in 1907
President Theodore Roosevelt approved the Oklahoma state constitution on Sept. 26, 1907. Image credit: Artist Mike Wimmer and The Oklahoma State Senate Historical Preservation Fund Inc
Oklahoma in 1907
This $5 bill is displayed at Omniplex, 2100 NE 52, in Oklahoma City, Dec. 19, 2002. The bank note issued by the First National Bank of Eufaula is dated Nov. 16, 1907, the day Oklahoma became a state, and was found in 1987 among the wreckage of the Titanic, which sank 90 years ago. Nationally chartered banks issued most of the currency that c