“They asked me if I knew what his frame of mind was, or if even back then he had any anti-American sentiments,” said Radford, the editor and owner of the Crescent Courier newspaper. “They asked me if we had received any information electronically or in packages from him.” He had not. “As soon as they […]
Ben Fenwick
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Twilight’s last gleaming
Credit: Mark Hancock When the battle for Okinawa ended, 12,500 Americans had been killed or lost. The Japanese lost more than 100,000. Fenwick, hailing from southeastern Oklahoma, was a U.S. Navy Hospital Corpsman, an advanced kind of medical personnel who landed with the Marines. He almost didn’t make the battle when his first landing craft […]
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New war, new casualties
Credit: Mark Hancock Afghanistan, 2011: In a war lasting more than 10 years, troops of Oklahoma’s 45th Infantry Brigade, the successors to the storied World War II unit and now a brigade numbering about 3,000, deployed into combat. By their return in March of this year, 14 had died and nearly 1,000 were injured. “The […]
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‘A little bit unreal’
As a fellow reporter, Said al-Ghazali, struggled to help him, Shadid wrote later in the Columbia Journalism Review that his thoughts flew to his wife and daughter, and of how useless words are when facing what could be one’s final moment. “In the anarchy of emotions and impulses that ensued, I could only come up […]
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Whiskey’s rebellion
Country rock’s Whiskey Myers is a month away from taking its act boatside on a ZZ Top-hosted cruise and music festival. The party will sail from Fort Lauderdale, Fla., and make its way to the Bahamas, but the band plans to keep shenanigans to a minimum. Maybe. “I don’t know how crazy it’s going to […]
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Whiskey’s rebellion
Country rock’s Whiskey Myers is a month away from taking its act boatside on a ZZ Top-hosted cruise and music festival. The party will sail from Fort Lauderdale, Fla., and make its way to the Bahamas, but the band plans to keep shenanigans to a minimum. Maybe. “I don’t know how crazy it’s going to […]
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Bob Macy: A look back
Two weeks after he was sworn into office in 1980, Oklahoma County District Attorney got the call to which he’d promised to respond. It was a police detective from the south side of Oklahoma City. “He said, ‘We just had a triple homicide at a south side motel and thought you might want to be […]
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AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18)
I know two people in their 80s who have accomplished a sensational long-running creative art project: They’ve been happily married for 65 years. The amount of reinvention they’ve had to dream up in order to keep loving each other is so profound that it confounds the imagination. How could they possibly have continued to stay […]
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Rocketplane, which received $18 million in Oklahoma tax credits, filed for bankruptcy last month
What started out as a dream of rockets in the Oklahoma sky and money flowing from space enthusiasts has finally ended. George French Jr., owner of Rocketplane Global, decided a mountain of debt and expectations of the same altitude were too much to burden and filed for bankruptcy. He filed the Chapter 7 bankruptcy papers […]
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Did someone plant evidence in the case against Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh?
Death blew out of Kansas in a lumbering yellow truck. Profile of a profiler‘It didn’t belong there’‘No explanation’Time passagesAfter Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols built the bomb in the back of the Ryder truck McVeigh had rented only days before, according to court records and from his own account, McVeigh drove a circuitous route into […]