This is the third volume of Voice of Oklahoma with stories from the oral history website voicesofoklahoma.com and features more inspiring and entertaining stories from Sooner State Personalities. Inside you'll find stories on why wiener is spelled "weiner" on a Coney Island storefront in Tulsa. The Lenapah High School graduate who was the first woman to co-host a national network television sports show (The Wide World of Sport). The time when Tulsa was an "open town" from a cop on the beat. Oklahomans who have excelled in the arts from architecture to photography, and Native American artists who excelled in their field. Stories from the greatest left-handed pitcher in baseball, and how the Greatest Olympian showed his natural athletic ability to his son. Lawyers, doctors, preachers, those who served our country, and those who fought for their civil rights. All of that and more including behind the scenes with Lucille Ball, "ALS-the Triumph of the Human Spirit," and inside the book and movie, "Killers of the Flower Moon."
This is the third volume of Voice of Oklahoma with stories from the oral history website voicesofoklahoma.com and features more inspiring and entertaining stories from Sooner State Personalities. Inside you'll find stories on why wiener is spelled "weiner" on a Coney Island storefront in Tulsa. The Lenapah High School graduate who was the first woman to co-host a national network television sports show (The Wide World of Sport). The time when Tulsa was an "open town" from a cop on the beat. Oklahomans who have excelled in the arts from architecture to photography, and Native American artists who excelled in their field. Stories from the greatest left-handed pitcher in baseball, and how the Greatest Olympian showed his natural athletic ability to his son. Lawyers, doctors, preachers, those who served our country, and those who fought for their civil rights. All of that and more including behind the scenes with Lucille Ball, "ALS-the Triumph of the Human Spirit," and inside the book and movie, "Killers of the Flower Moon."
