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Tulsa Lore

The Gospel of John Lennon

In search of John Lennon's lost letter to Oral Roberts

December 12, 2024

Tulsa Revealed

Investigating the people in Larry Clark's "Tulsa," including the man on the cover: my father.

December 9, 2024

Tulsa’s Temple of the Three Jewels

A dispatch from Chùa Tam Bào, Tulsa's only Buddhist temple.

December 9, 2024

The Genesis of Vagabond

Examining the life behind some of Tulsa's most canny, striking photographs.

December 9, 2024

A Stiller Ground

A father's lamentation.

December 5, 2024

The Strange Love of Dr. Billy James Hargis

How an Oklahoma preacher and a Texas general forged a new brand of politics that centered Oklahoma as a hotbed for the religious right.

November 25, 2024

Something Good Is Going To Happen To You

Growing up gay in the Oral Roberts family

The Nightmare Of Dreamland

A founding father of Tulsa, Tate Brady, was involved with the Ku Klux Klan, segregation and the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre.

November 21, 2024

Mr. Ray Fits A Suit

A firsthand account of survival of the concentration camps at Auschwitz and Dachau, from the late Tulsa tailor Sherman Ray.

November 20, 2024

Diamond In The Rough

Steve Gerkin examines the mysterious disappearance of "Diamond Dick" Roland, whose arrest was rumored to be the triggering event for the Tulsa Race Massacre.

November 20, 2024