Events for 11.04.17

This is our year to present the All-County Historical program which will be the "Eight Days in Paradise." The subject will be the 1933 Kidnapping of Oklahoma oilman, Charles Urschel, in the form of an one-act play called “Eight Days in Paradise”. On July 22, 1933, Machine Gun Kelley and side-kick Albert Bates kidnapped Oklahoma oilman, Charles Urschel, from his home in Oklahoma City and drove him to a farm near Paradise, Texas. Nine days later he was released after a $200,000 ransom payment was Read More