Controversy
The Rest of Paul Harvey’s Story–Conclusion
Paul Harvey Aurandt eventually overcame the murder of his father, a Tulsa police officer, when Paul was just a toddler. That murder spun off a series of bizarre incidents in the State of Oklahoma: A lynch mob demanded that the Tulsa County sheriff prove that the accused were not in the jail. They dispersed after their hand-picked “inspection committee,” which …
March 12, 2009 Thursday at 8:58 pm
Preview: The Story of the 1890 Census
We all “know” that the 1890 census was destroyed in a fire at the Commerce Department in January, 1921. But do we know the whole story of the 1890 census? The 1890 census was in trouble long before that tragic night in 1921. The Superintendent of the Census, one R.P. Porter, had to constantly defend his work against charges that …
August 29, 2007 Wednesday at 2:16 am
