The most eloquent courtroom speech he ever made was only nine words long, a pioneer Oklahoma lawyer who won acquittals for 303 of 343 accused slayers he represented once said.
As the longtime piano player for the sing-along segment of the melodrama The Drunkard and a performer at parties, Marna Graham McKinney could play almost any song written.
One of the first 300 Tulsa County men drafted for World War II service rose through the ranks to become the second black Army officer to receive a general s star.
Using worn mattress cloth for his canvas and smuggled brushes, Conrad Maas completed more than 50 paintings. Many were donated to churches. Others were sold to guards and inmates.