
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.
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Back in Time is a local public television program presented by OETA

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.
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Back in Time is a local public television program presented by OETA