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Jim Giles (1939–December 20, 2006) was a longtime television meteorologist with CBS affiliate KOTV, Channel 6 in Tulsa, Oklahoma. A "longtime fixture" on Oklahoma television, after his death the Tulsa World described him as "perhaps the best-known weatherman in this area". [1]
The Tulsa Beacon features news from Tulsa and the surrounding area. It includes local columnists, a recipe page, church news, columns by Dr. Billy Graham and Focus on the Family, local editorials and letters to the editor, syndicated columnists David Limbaugh, Pat Buchanan, and Walter Williams), local sports, movie reviews, classified ads, and legal notices.
Robert Galbreath Jr. (1863–1955), oilman who moved to Tulsa after he drilled the first oil well in Glenn Pool Field; J. Paul Getty (1892–1976), oilman founder of Getty Oil Company, who made his first million in Tulsa between 1914 and 1916 [4] Thomas Gilcrease (1890–1962), [5] oilman, founder of Gilcrease Museum
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 ...
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.
Robert C. "Bob" Losure (May 4, 1947 – July 19, 2019) was a weekend anchor on CNN Headline News from 1986 to 1997. Earlier in his career he worked as co-anchor of the evening news at KOTV, the CBS affiliate in his hometown of Tulsa, Oklahoma and before that as the reporter for Tulsa's AM radio station KRMG.
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Her family, including four of her siblings, was living in Greenwood, a wealthy Black neighborhood of Tulsa known as the Black Wall Street, at the time of the massacre. [1] [5] [6] Fletcher was seven years old at the time. [1] She was in bed asleep on May 31, 1921, when the massacre began; her mother woke the family and they fled.