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Kathy Taylor (born 1955), Mayor of Tulsa (2006–2009) John Volz (1935–2011), attorney for the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana, died in Tulsa in 2011; R. James Woolsey Jr. (born 1941), former director, Central Intelligence Agency; Terry Young (born 1948), former mayor of the City of Tulsa
African-American newspaper founded by A. J. Smitherman; succeeded by the Tulsa Star [21] The Oklahoma (City) Times: Oklahoma City: 1889 1984 [22] Skiatook Sentinel: Skiatook: 1905 [23] Tulsa Business Journal: Tulsa: Formerly published by Community Publishing Tulsa County News: Tulsa: 2012 Published by Gary Percefull Tulsa Star: Tulsa: 1913 1921
Fletcher was born May 10, 1914, in Comanche, Oklahoma, to Lucinda Ellis and John Wesley Ford. [a] [3] She was the second oldest of eight children. [1]One younger brother, Hughes Van Ellis, was a newborn at the time of the massacre; [1] [3] Ellis died on October 9, 2023, at the age of 102. [4]
In 1964, Robert Lorton became director of the News Publishing Corporation, which oversaw the non-editorial operations of both the Tulsa Tribune and Tulsa World. In 1968, he became president of the Tulsa World and publisher upon Boone's death in 1988. The Tulsa Tribune ceased operations in 1992 and Tulsa World acquired its assets. [5]
KOTV-DT (channel 6) is a television station in Tulsa, Oklahoma, United States, affiliated with CBS.It is owned by Griffin Media alongside Muskogee-licensed CW affiliate KQCW-DT (channel 19) and radio stations KOTV (1170 AM), KRQV (92.9 FM), KVOO-FM (98.5), KXBL (99.5 FM) and KHTT (106.9 FM).
William G. Skelly, founder of Skelly Oil, founded KVOO-TV. The VHF channel 2 allocation was contested between two groups, both led by prominent Oklahoma oilmen, that competed for approval by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to be the holder of the construction permit to build and license to operate a new television station on the third commercial VHF allocation to be assigned to Tulsa.