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Post twice set the record for flying around the world and then of course was the "space suit."

A retired Oklahoma City professor became the first black student at OU in 1948, but he had to sit in an alcove separated from other students by a wooden railing.

Wilbur Underhill, ranked by many as Oklahoma's toughest badman during the 1930s gangster era, was known as the 'mad dog of the underworld' and was even feared by his partners.

Former Tulsan William Lawrence Boyd, a one-time playboy, became a "wonderful guy" to conform to characteristics of his movie screen role as the good guy in the black hat.

At the time of his death in 1927, he was lauded as “one of the most indicted and imprisoned workers” in the history of the American labor movement. Yet today, few know the name Charles Emil Ruthenberg.