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Names You Should Know

Oklahoman history is filled with statesmen, scoundrels and heroes, “Names you Should Know”

04/12/2018

Back in Time

Names You Should Know

Season 7 Episode 4 | 27m 47sVideo has Closed Captions

Oklahoman history is filled with statesmen, scoundrels and heroes, “Names you Should Know”

OETA’s award winning documentary series Back in Time introduces us to three very different men. Bass Reeves, was a runaway slave that became the first black US Marshall and may have inspired “The Lone Ranger.” Moman Pruiett was a shady frontier lawyer who won 304 murder cases & was called “The Murder’s Messiah.” Don Porter, who took softball from the playground and got it into the Olympics, twice.

04/12/2018

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Back in Time

Names You Should Know

Season 7 Episode 4 | 27m 47sVideo has Closed Captions

OETA’s award winning documentary series Back in Time introduces us to three very different men. Bass Reeves, was a runaway slave that became the first black US Marshall and may have inspired “The Lone Ranger.” Moman Pruiett was a shady frontier lawyer who won 304 murder cases & was called “The Murder’s Messiah.” Don Porter, who took softball from the playground and got it into the Olympics, twice.

04/12/2018

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