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Stephen Jones military defense attorney and top Oklahoma criminal defense attorney handles high profile defense cases with years of experience Jones, Otjen, Davis & Bloyd (580) 242-5500 sjones@stephenjoneslaw.com
- Je: So He Grew Up in That area?
- JJ: Um-hmm (Affirmative). and His Father Was A Unitarian Minister.
- JJ: Right.
- Chapter 06 – 8:45 Tribune Editorial Stands
- JJ: and Continues, Right.
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- Je: Thrown Down The stairs? by?
- Je: His University Came About in The ’60s.
- Je: That Was House Bill 1017 and It Was A Reform BILL—
- Je: Where The Actual Work Was done. You Were Housed in The Same…?
JJ: He grew up in that area. My grandfather was the publisher of the Wisconsin State Journal. JE: The story begins then talking about your grandfather and it does talk about the Tulsa Tribune, its legacy, and the family Jones. And, Jenk, why don’t you give us a brief bio of yourself here as you’re going to be the storyteller. JJ: Well, I’ve worked ...
JE: How did he connect to the Tulsa Tribune? JJ: I don’t know the full background but I know he came down to Oklahoma at the time of statehood. I think he was writing for Collier’s then. But whatever magazine he was writing for, he wrote a very glowing account of this new state and its potentials. I think that always was in the back of his mind. So...
JE: With that established then, we move forward. And then you as grandson served as editor and publisher when the last issue of the Tulsa Tribune—
John Erling: Well, let’s talk about some of the major campaigns that the Tribune led as I throw them out to you. You will have more background to them. The paper led the state fight for reapportionment, which was very crucial to urban areas getting equality. Maybe you can tell us about that.
JE: And then there were some other public fundraising the Tribune ran. And the Preservation of the Redbud Valley Nature Area in Northeast Oklahoma.
Tribune People John Erling: There’s some great people that worked for the Tulsa Tribune. Let’s just mention some of them. We have Joe Howell, he was a reporter for your paper for more than half a century. Jenk Jones: Yeah, Joseph E. Howell is the way he bylined his work. He worked for us, well, he was in his eighties when the Tribune closed and he ...
JJ: By somebody he had exposed. This was before he was with the Tribune. Nolan was one of the chief instruments in breaking stories on bootlegging and crime in Oklahoma. In fact, I went down to the penitentiary with him when I was a teenager and it was, “Hello, Nolan.” “How are you, Nolan?” He—half the guys in the pen he knew, and a lot of them he’...
JJ: Yeah it came about in the ’60s. In fact, I helped him put together the Oracle, helped the students get the first baby steps started on the school newspaper. Because I’d been on the school newspaper when I was in college.
JJ: That was an educational reform bill. Both the World and Tribune not only worked hard for its passage but later on when there was an effort to repeal it they worked hard to fight the repeal. There would be times like that. Probably the one time the World was right and we were wrong was on the Spavinaw flow line. They supported that back in the e...
JJ: Housed in the same building and when computers came in we all carried codes that would keep Tribune writers from getting into the World files and vice versa. We had certain things like libraries that we could access either way and we were very good. The editors of both papers let it be done known it was a firing offense if you tried to mess aro...
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