Debbie Jackson
Tulsa Worlds
Tulsa, OK, United States
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Throwback Tulsa: 'Fuzz' Forrester, 19, was first Tulsan killed in Vietnam
Spec. 4 Jorden Duwayne Forrester, 19, was the first Tulsan killed in the Vietnam War. He died on Nov. 17, 1965, in the Battle of Ia Drang Valley – considered to be the first significant fight between U.S. ground troops and North Vietnamese forces. → Read More
Throwback Tulsa: Dirty bookstores won First Amendment victory over DA
Throwback Tulsa gallery: Penthouse magazine seizures, arrests culminate in 1999 trial → Read More
Throwback Tulsa: Mob-style murder at posh golf course shocked Tulsa in 1981
For the next 30 years, Tulsa Police homicide detective Mike Huff and his partner Dick Bishop doggedly pursued leads, piecing together evidence of an unholy alliance of underworld characters and corrupt FBI agents.Photos: Tulsa businessman Roger Wheeler 1981 murder case → Read More
Throwback Tulsa: Charming, friendly Nannie Doss poisoned four husbands
Doss, a 49-year-old grandmother who appeared to enjoy media attention, confessed to spiking four of her spouses' food and drink with rat poison. → Read More
Throwback Tulsa: Immigrant builds a Palace for his American dream
Simon Jankowsky was born in Russia and came to the U.S. at the age of 16. He made his way to Tulsa, Indian Territory, in 1904 and established a successful clothing business that his family would run for more than 50 years. → Read More
Throwback Tulsa: Arkansas River unleashed fury in '86 flood
There is no doubt that the levee system has prevented untold loss of life and property due to flooding. But Old Man River wasn’t so easily tamed. → Read More
Throwback Tulsa: Bordens Cafeterias fed hungry Tulsans for 35 years
Two young Tulsans who would become leaders in the cafeteria industry got their start in 1935 with a five-stool café at 707 S. Cincinnati Ave. With money borrowed from their father, they bought the 8-by-12-foot lunch counter for $275. → Read More
Throwback Tulsa: Visitors still flock to Swan Lake, Tulsa's first playground
In early-day Tulsa, Orcutt Lake was a place to swim, fish, picnic and go boating. Today, the centerpiece of that popular attraction is known as Swan Lake, a city park that is home to a variety of waterfowl. → Read More
Throwback Tulsa: Ex-Miss America's divorce case scandalized Tulsa in '34
Two weeks of racy divorce court testimony filled with revelry, adultery and a tipsy toddler, shattered in 1934 the demure image most Tulsans had of our very own Miss America, who had married oilman Thomas Gilcrease. → Read More
Throwback Tulsa: Mayfest often means grab your umbrellas
You must login to view the full content on this page. With forecasters predicting over 2 inches of rain in Tulsa over the next week, it must be Mayfest time. Here's a brief look at how the weather has occasionally put a damper on Tulsa's big festival: 1989 — High winds blew most of the exhibitors’ tents off their frames and damaged wares. 1992 — Some vendors packed up early to avoid heavy rains,… → Read More
Throwback Tulsa: 'Sky lit up green' as Bixby tornado killed 5 in 1981
The small congregation had just finished communion and was in the middle of the traditional Easter Sunday feet-washing ceremony when the electricity went off on April 19, 1981. → Read More
Throwback Tulsa: Loving wrong man was downfall for 'Bootleg Queen' Cleo Epps
A friend said Epps “was always strictly against whiskey. But when her husband started selling it, she decided, ‘To hell with it’ and got in it all the way. That’s the way Cleo was,” The Tulsa Tribune’s Windsor Ridenour wrote in a June 26, 1974, story. → Read More
Throwback Tulsa: The Forum tried to lure people downtown with ice rink, theater, shops
Long before the BOK Center, ONEOK Field, the Brady Arts District and the Blue Dome District gave downtown Tulsa new life, there was the Forum. → Read More
Throwback Tulsa: Madam of longtime Tulsa brothel was unrepentant to the end
“She probably has saved more marriages than any minister in Tulsa,” said Frances Leach, a wealthy widow and former Tulsan who arranged to pay for legal representation when Pauline Lambert was facing jail in 1978. → Read More
Throwback Tulsa: Madam of longtime Tulsa brothel was unrepentant to the end
“She probably has saved more marriages than any minister in Tulsa,” said Frances Leach, a wealthy widow and former Tulsan who arranged to pay for legal representation when Pauline Lambert was facing jail in 1978. → Read More
Throwback Tulsa: Teapot Dome plot may have been hatched at Sinclair Building
“You can’t convict a million dollars.” So said one newspaper reporter when Harry Ford Sinclair was acquitted in the Teapot Dome bribery and corruption scandal in the 1920s. You must login to view the full content on this page. According to legend, the ninth floor penthouse of his company headquarters in Tulsa is where Sinclair devised his plan to obtain drilling leases that were the basis of the… → Read More
Throwback Tulsa: Gunshots, flying inkwells and a spittoon figure in Legislatures past
Fistfights, flying inkwells and a riot. → Read More
Throwback Tulsa: Did Ted Cole survive escape from Alcatraz?
Authorities maintained that Cole, 27, of Tulsa, and his accomplice, Ralph Roe, 33, a bank robber from Duncan, likely drowned in the swift, chilly currents of San Francisco Bay while trying to swim to freedom on Dec. 16, 1937. → Read More
Throwback Tulsa: Old 11th Street Bridge holds 100 years of history
For most of Tulsa’s history, the Arkansas River has been nothing but a nuisance. → Read More
Throwback Tulsa: Rat-killing skunks and other news in 1915
One hundred years ago, blood-sucking skunks were being used to rid the Tulsa city jail of rats. → Read More