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Oral History: Darin Behara
Darin Behara talks about his career working at various universities in and out of Oklahoma.
Oral History Kent Frates
Kent Frates tells the story of when his uncle Charles Urschel was kidnapped by Machine Gun Kelly.
Oral History: Sophie Palin
Sophie Palin talks about her career working with pachyderms and in security at the Oklahoma City Zoo.
Oral History: Ernest Ervin
Ernest Ervin talks about growing up in Texas, and coming to Oklahoma City and opening a shop in the Farmer's Market where he began repairing old clocks.
Oklahoma Voices: Byron Gordon
Byron Gordon talks about his life growing up in Oklahoma and fighting in the Philippines in World War II.
Oral History: Glen Edward Burleigh
Musician Glen Edward Burleigh talks about growing up and going to school in Oklahoma and about his life as a composer.
Oral History: Margaret Bell Tampkins and Leonard Tampkins Jr.
Born in 1916, Margaret Bell Tamkins talks about her life growing up in northeast Oklahoma City. In the second half of the interview she is joined by her son, Leonard Tampkins Jr., who talks about being a part of a group that became the first students from Douglass High School to attend the University of Oklahoma in the early days of integration.
Oral History: Bruce Fisher
Bruce Fisher talks about his youth growing up in Chickasha, Oklahoma, and Oklahoma City, about his famous mother, Ada Lois Sipuel Fisher, and more.
Oral History: Dorthy Caldwell
Dorthy Caldwell talks about growing up in Oklahoma City in the 1930s and 1940s.
Oklahoma Voices: Kendy Cox
Kendy Cox talks about her life and her work with the Oklahoma Marriage Initiative.
Oral History: James Port
James Port talks about his childhood in Iran and his adult life in Oklahoma.