you can't imagine that it would happen right here in your own home town in the middle of the united states. and yet, it had. my name is g.t. bynum. i'm the mayor of tulsa. i grew up here in tulsa. my family has been here since the 1870s. my great, great grandfather was the second mayor of tulsa. i heard about the massacre in 2001. i was 24 years old at this point. every high school student in oklahoma has to go through an oklahoma history course. never came up. my dad had been president of the tulsa historical society. never came up. hearing about that, it was shocking to me because i love tulsa, i couldn't believe it