Executive Correspondence - Representative Tom Cole (4th District, Oklahoma) submitted testimony to the Commission, dated July 11, 2005. Testimony specifically addresses the realignment of the Air Defense Artillery (ADA) School from Fort Bliss (Texas) to Fort Sill (Lawton, Oklahoma) and the proposed creation of the Net Fires Center at Fort Sill.

Weekly newspaper from Mannford, Oklahoma that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.

Weekly newspaper from Lexington, Oklahoma that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.

Interview with James William "Bill" Harrison, a serviceman in the U. S. Navy during World War II. He explains how he joined the navy in San Diego without going to boot camp. He worked on an oil tanker that shipped out to Pearl Harbor a month after the attack there and transported fuel out of San Diego to various ships at sea. He was then transfered to Admiral Nimitz's public relations department. There he and two others wrote stories about the action in the Pacific theater, particularly about the Battle of Midway. They also contributed to a radio show and worked with the national press corps. He then worked at the Naval Air Station in Seattle before traveling to Hilo, Hawaii to meet with soldiers who had returned from Tarawa. In Texas, he attended officer training school and college at Southwestern University. After the war ended, he studied at the University of Texas and University of Oklahoma for law school. He recalls an incident in which his office released a story about a cat that had kittens on board a cruiser; they reported this good news from the Pacific prior to the Battle of Midway. He also met Admirals Nimitz …

Weekly newspaper from Tulsa, Oklahoma that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.

Photograph of a scene along the Bricktown Canal.

Photograph of a scene along the Bricktown Canal.

Photograph of a scene along the Bricktown Canal.

Photograph of a scene at the Myriad Gardens.

Photograph of the Oklahoma City Skyline, at night.

Photograph of a scene at the Myriad Gardens.

Photograph of a scene at the Myriad Gardens.

Photograph of a scene along the Bricktown Canal.

Photograph of a scene in Bricktown.

Photograph of a scene along the Bricktown Canal.

Photograph of a scene at the Myriad Gardens.

Photograph of a scene along the Bricktown Canal.

Photograph of a scene along the Bricktown Canal.

Photograph of a scene along the Bricktown Canal.

Photograph of a scene along the Bricktown Canal.

Photograph of a scene along the Bricktown Canal.

Photograph of a scene along the Bricktown Canal.

Photograph of a scene at the Myriad Gardens.

Photograph of a scene along the Bricktown Canal.