When James F. "Bud" Ledbetter was elected sheriff of Muskogee County at the age of 70, some of the county s most notorious bootleggers closed their businesses.
A retired Oklahoma City professor became the first black student at OU in 1948, but he had to sit in an alcove separated from other students by a wooden railing.
A payoff protection scheme involving Tulsa police and bootleggers was "a strange and disgusting story," U. S. District Attorney B. Hayden Crawford told a 1957 federal court jury.
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.