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Pope John Paul II was the subject of three premature obituaries.. A prematurely reported obituary is an obituary of someone who was still alive at the time of publication. . Examples include that of inventor and philanthropist Alfred Nobel, whose premature obituary condemning him as a "merchant of death" for creating military explosives may have prompted him to create the Nobel Prize; [1 ...
Joseph B. Thoburn and John W. Sharp. History of the Oklahoma Press and the Oklahoma Press Association (Oklahoma City: Oklahoma Press Association, 1930). Federal Writers' Project (1941), "Newspapers", Oklahoma: a Guide to the Sooner State, American Guide Series, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, pp. 74– 82, ISBN 9781603540353 – via ...
The Oklahoman is the largest daily newspaper in Oklahoma, United States, and is the only regional daily that covers the Greater Oklahoma City area. [2] The Alliance for Audited Media (formerly Audit Bureau Circulation) lists it as the 59th largest U.S. newspaper in circulation.
Gene Stipe (1926–2012), longest-serving member of the Oklahoma State Senate, from McAlester, Oklahoma Clarence L. Tinker (1887–1942), Air Force major general killed in action in World War II Elizabeth Warren (born 1949), US senator for Massachusetts, Special Advisor for the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
Denver Norton Davison [1] (October 9, 1891 – April 28, 1983) was an American jurist from Oklahoma. Born in Rich Hill, Missouri , he moved to the Choctaw Nation in Indian Territory in 1906 to work in the coal mines there.
Tom Adelson, member of the Oklahoma State Senate; Alicia Andrews, chair of the Oklahoma Democratic Party; Bob Ballinger (born 1974), member of the Arkansas House of Representatives, reared in Tulsa; Dewey F. Bartlett (1919–1979), former governor of the state of Oklahoma and U.S. Senator; Dewey F. Bartlett Jr. (born 1947), former mayor of ...
Taloga is a town in Dewey County, Oklahoma, United States.The population was 288 at the time of the 2020 census. [4]It is the county seat of Dewey County. [5] The town lies near the southern bank of a bend of the Canadian River, along U.S. Route 183, approximately thirty-seven miles north of Clinton.
Geronimo was the scene of one of the deadliest bank robberies in recent Oklahoma history on December 14, 1984. Shortly after 1 p.m., Jay Wesley Neill entered the First Bank of Chattanooga in Geronimo, and forced the three tellers to the back room, where he had them lie face down on the floor and stabbed them to death.