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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 ...
Wolf's own church has had to contend with its own tarnished past in race relations. In 1921, the same year as the infamous Tulsa Race Riot, All Souls church was co-founded by Richard Lloyd Jones, editor and publisher of the afternoon newspaper, the Tulsa Tribune. An inflammatory editorial allegedly appeared in the paper reporting an attempted ...
All Souls Unitarian Church is a Unitarian Universalist (UU) church in Tulsa, Oklahoma.It is one of the largest UU congregations in the world. All Souls Unitarian Church was founded in 1921 by two leading Tulsans from families with Unitarian roots: [2] Richard Lloyd Jones, [3] the publisher of the Tulsa Tribune daily newspaper, whose father, Rev. Jenkin Lloyd Jones, had served as secretary of ...
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
In 1937, he was named as managing editor of the paper. He continued to work in Tulsa until 1941, when he was appointed to the United States Office of Censorship. [16] In 1941 the Tribune entered into a joint operating agreement with the morning Tulsa World and established the Newspaper Printing Corporation. The two papers co-existed, sharing ...
She purchased a building in 1981 at 739 N. Main street in Tulsa, Oklahoma which would double as a church building and shelter for Tulsa's most needy citizens. She dubbed it the "Rescue Home". [ 5 ] After receiving a $40,000 donation in 1986, she was able to purchase a former country club on Tulsa 's west side that was to become a multipurpose ...
Tulsa County is very conservative for an urban county; it has voted Republican in every presidential election since 1940. [30] The county's Republican bent predates Oklahoma's swing toward the GOP. George H. W. Bush in 1992 remains the only Republican since Alf Landon in 1936 to fail to obtain a majority in the county, and even then only ...