it's those eyewitness accounts that we hold dear. and we remember here in tulsa, oklahoma. >> representative goodwin, one thing that has amazed and alarmed me in learning about this is that this was an event almost erased from history for a number of years, not even taught in schools in oklahoma, right, for so many years. and i wonder if you could explain to folks how that happened, right? there's been a reawakening of awareness of this event today, but for so many years, it was swept under the rug. >> so i just want to add layers to what you've said which is absolutely true. there's absolutely a conspiracy of silence because murderers, looters and arsonists were still walking the streets. crimes had been committed. no one was charge period but i will say this. i know representative don ross, senator maxine horner, he learned of it in high school at booker t. washington. and it was his teacher that conveyed the information to me.