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Unintended Consequences?

8/31/2022

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Unintended Consequences? - The Daily Oklahoman prophetically editorialized the implications of this momentous decision on the community’s educational strategy and indeed, the city’s…

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The Oklahomans: The Story of Oklahoma and Its People
volume 1 of a 2-part series on the 46th state and the people who make this state very special.
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Oklahoma Governors 1931-1935: William Henry David Alfalfa Bill Murray (1869-1956)

8/30/2022

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Oklahoma Governors 1931-1935: William Henry David “Alfalfa Bill” Murray (1869-1956) - Toadsuck, Texas native William Henry “Alfalfa Bill” Murray provides lasting evidence that a roughhewn frontier country known as Oklahoma once existed. Murray…

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Lee Cruce: Oklahoma Governors (1911-1915)

8/29/2022

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Lee Cruce: Oklahoma Governors (1911-1915) - This Kentucky-born pioneer came to Ardmore in 1891, nearly 20 years before statehood, at the age of twenty-eight. He worked his way up to a bank presidency, as…

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We Were a Happy People

8/28/2022

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“We Were a Happy People” - Tribes who lost their land and sovereignty left eloquent testaments to their trials. An 1895 Cherokee delegation to the federal government in Washington, D.C.…

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Big Mac Prison Riot Podcast

8/27/2022

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Big Mac Prison Riot – Podcast - Return with me to 1973 and the site and scene of the most destructive prison riot in American history—at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary in McAlester! Feel the…

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The Oklahomans

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The Oklahomans: The Story of Oklahoma and Its People
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From Auschwitz to Oklahoma Podcast

8/27/2022

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Hear one of Oklahoma’s most unbelievable stories on our new OKLAHOMA GOLD! podcast. It’s the saga of Leon Zelby—mischievous Jewish schoolboy in Poland, Auschwitz death camp survivor, daring escapee from a Nazi prisoner train, American soldier, professor emeritus of engineering at OU, husband for 2/3 of a century to a beautiful girl from Israel who became one of the greatest realtors in Oklahoma history.

Join John and KTOK/iHeartRadio star Gwin Faulconer-Lippert for a thrilling and poignant story of redemption and second chances. It’s another original episode of our weekly OKLAHOMA GOLD! radio program and podcast. Go HERE to listen to them all! Future episodes explore more great heroes, events, and movements of Oklahoma History.

https://youtu.be/E3Ped5sY06Y
LEON ZELBY AND AUSCHWITZ TATTOO

Dr. Leon Zelby displays the arm where his Nazi captors tattooed him at the Auschwitz-Birkenbau concentration camp three-quarters of a century before.


AUSCHWITZ PRISONERS

Young prisoners at the Nazis’ World War II Auschwitz-Birkenbau concentration camp.


SERGEANT LEON ZELBY

Master Sergeant Leon Zelby, United States Army, after declining an invitation to Officer Candidate School.


LEON ZELBY IN HAT

Leon Zelby sports the hat he wore during his vigorous days as an Oklahoma horseman.


RACHEL ZELBY AND JOHN

John with Rachel Zelby, hall of fame Century 21 Goodyear Green realtor in Norman and wife for 2/3 of a century of Dr. Leon Zelby.


Many thanks to Atwoods Ranch and Home, a farm and ranch supply company based in Enid, Oklahoma, for their support of the Red River Institute of History and OKLAHOMA GOLD! Please support them as you are able! Wherever you are, you can order online from thousands of quality products on their terrific website HERE. Atwoods also has 66 stores in 5 states: Arkansas, Kansas, Missouri, Oklahoma, and Texas. In addition to farm and ranch supplies, Atwoods stores sell clothing, lawn and garden items, tools, hardware, automotive supplies, sporting goods, pet supplies, firearms, and seasonal items.


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Stand Watie Cherokee General

8/26/2022

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Stand Watie – Cherokee General - As requested by many of you, here is my Christmas Season 2021 address to the annual national meeting of the Stand Watie Military Society in Oklahoma City,…

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The Oklahomans: The Story of Oklahoma and Its People
volume 1 of a 2-part series on the 46th state and the people who make this state very special.
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Boudinot Tells Ross Why the Cherokees Must Leave

8/25/2022

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Boudinot Tells Ross Why the Cherokees Must Leave - Brilliant Cherokee educator, author, journalist, preacher, and reformer Elias Boudinot penned a profound rejoinder to longtime Cherokee Principal Chief John…

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The Oklahomans: The Story of Oklahoma and Its People
volume 1 of a 2-part series on the 46th state and the people who make this state very special.
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Soldier and Bridge Builder: Matthew Arbuckle (1778-1851)

8/24/2022

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Soldier and Bridge Builder: Matthew Arbuckle (1778-1851) - Were Oklahoma to erect its own Mount Rushmore for American soldiers who amidst great peril sought not only the welfare of their fellow citizens, but that of the…

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The Oklahomans: The Story of Oklahoma and Its People
volume 1 of a 2-part series on the 46th state and the people who make this state very special.
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Missionaries and Indians Battle Liquor (Part 1)

8/23/2022

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Missionaries and Indians Battle Liquor (Part 1) - Grant Foreman (1869-1953), one of Oklahoma’s greatest early historians, wrote this classic essay for the Chronicles of Oklahoma historical magazine. We have…

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      Novelist and Oklahoma native Ralph Ellison said, "You have to leave home to find home", an apt description of the journey of John Dwyer, author and general editor of The Oklahomans. The Dwyer family roots were firmly transplanted from Ireland to Oklahoma by John's great-grandfather and grandfather, the latter who settled in Oklahoma City in 1909, just two years after Oklahoma achieved statehood. Although born in Dallas, TX, John was relocated to Oklahoma when his widowed mother returned to her home when he was two years old.
      It would be on Oklahoma soil that his mother instilled in him his love for history, and coupled with his unusually creative imagination, it soon became apparent that John not only liked to hear great stories of legend and history, but to make up his own as well. It would be out of a sense of divine purpose that he would use that creativity in response to a higher calling in the years to come.
      John began a career in journalism during his high school days when he served in a variety of roles, including news and sports reporter, for the Duncan Banner, a daily newspaper in his small Oklahoma hometown. He was the youngest sports editor in the newspaper's history by the time he attended the University of Oklahoma on a journalism scholarship. He graduated in 1978 with a bachelor of arts and sciences degree in journalism.
      Dwyer further developed his journalistic skills in radio as a play‐by‐play football and basketball announcer for several radio stations. He won the coveted position of sports director for the University of Oklahoma's 100,000 watt KGOU‐FM radio station. For seven years, he provided live, on‐air reports to America's largest radio networks of University of Oklahoma college football games.
      Except for a year in England during 6th grade, John lived in the Sooner State for 28 years before returning to Dallas in 1986 to attend Dallas Theological Seminary where he earned his Master of Biblical Studies. While there, Dwyer worked part time on the sports staff of The Dallas Times Herald, which at the time owned one of the five largest circulations of any daily newspaper in Texas. It was in Texas that he also met and married his wife Grace in 1988 and settled down to start his family.
      In the spring of 1992, Dwyer and his wife founded the Dallas‐Fort Worth Heritage newspaper, which would grow to a circulation of 50,000 per month at the time of its sale, after nearly a decade, to new owners. The Heritage pioneered innovative features such as full color photography and graphics, an expansive web site, a cluster of informative daily radio programs, and an aggressive, uncompromising brand of investigative news reporting unprecedented for contemporary news publications holding an
    orthodox Christian worldview.
      In 2006, at the urging of his family and the Oklahoma Historical Society, John returned to Oklahoma to tackle the colossal task of writing "The Oklahomans," which was endorsed as an official project of the Oklahoma Centennial Commission. He has completed volume 1 (Ancient‐Statehood) and a portion of volume 2 (Statehood‐Present), which releases in November 2018.
      He is now an Adjunct Professor of History and Ethics at Southern Nazarene University. He is former history chair at Coram Deo Academy, near Dallas, Texas. His books include the non‐fiction historical narrative "The War Between the States: America's Uncivil War" (Western Conservatory), the novel "When the Bluebonnets Come" (Bluebonnet Press), the historical novels "Stonewall" and "Robert E. Lee" (Broadman & Holman Publishers), and the upcoming historical novels "Shortgrass" and "Mustang" (Oghma Creative Media).
      John and Grace have one daughter and one grandson and live in Norman, Oklahoma. They are members of the First Baptist  Church of Norman, where they serve in a variety of teaching, mission, and other ministry roles.

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