Wowl PCCast book series House of Night set in alternate universe of a Tulsa with vampires!

She writes the series with her daughter

I don't like vampire stories, so I haven't read any. I understand they are very popular

'Brother, nobody can outlie Texas!'

In a conference near the border between OK and TX, as part of his talk a speaker referred to Oklahoma as 'an outlying part of Texas. Someone near the back of the auditorium yelled out ' Brother, nobody can outlie Texas!'

I found this story in a Readers Digest when I was in junior high in OK in the 50s. The magazine had a feature every month called 'things people say', I think

Tulsans, Oklahomans---afraid you'll see neighbors, friends, family in news on rally line?

Old enough to remember Disney's True Life Adventure movies. One about elk on youtube

I thought there were some that don't appear on wikipedia list. Just a hazy memory

We kids looked forward to them,

OK GOP senator Lankford advises older people, at-risk people not to go to rally. From joemygod

Lankford sometimes breaks out of GOP cage. Remember he said publically he didn't want his kids to use Trunp as a role model.

He was a minister before he ran for office

Important book for the early Civil Rights movement--The Children by David Halberstam (1999)

It tells the story of the 59-62 Nashville Student Movement---activists such as John Lewis, the Freedom Riders, the formation of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), etc

ETA---Halberstam also wrote the 1972 book The Best and the Brightest, an analysis of the origins of the Vietnam War. How it was crafted by the foreign policy academics and intellectuals of JFK's administration

Time to remember the Freedom Rides that started in the spring of 1961

[Timeline, info at history.com]

SCOTUS had given decision that there could be no segregation on buses in interstate transportation or in eating establishments, waiting rooms, etc that served them.

Young black and white students decided to test that. There was publicity when they started (and priny and TV media followed the buses), so people knew their route and when they would be coming. Sometimes the bus would be stopped at the border of a southern state, and the state troopers would go into the bus and tell the blacks to go to the back of the bus.

One of the first had a flat tire or something near Anniston AL. Some whites in following cars threw a bomb into the bus, catching it on fire. The riders were able to escape and got to a hospital.

An early bus was met in Birmingham by a white mob, many armed with lead pipes. The white cops stood by while the riders were severely beaten.

A white confident of JFK (maybe in the DOJ?) was at one of the stations where riders were being beaten. He escaped being beaten himself and called Kennedy to tell him it was really, really bad.

(There's lots of info about the Rides in Taylor Branch's trilogy about MLK)

Have you seen Billy Porter's video song/statement For What it's Worth? Your opinion?

Wow! Thought Alioto (70) and Roberts (65) were younger!

Trump said to be seeking outdoor venue for Tulsa rally, per joemygod !!!

Posted anywhere else?

A commenter suggests new downtown stadium (9,000 seats--near Greenwood) or U of Tulsa stadium near 11 and Harvard (30,000 seats)