Wiley Post of Oklahoma

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Title
Wiley Post of Oklahoma
Contributing Organization
OETA (Oklahoma City, Oklahoma)
AAPB ID
cpb-aacip/521-fj29883n5j
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Description
This program features Oklahoma's famous aviator Wiley Post in this one hour biography written and hosted by Oklahoma Historian Bob Burk. July 22, 1933, Wiley Post landed in Floyd Bennett Field in New York after flying solo around the world. Wiley Post was a 6th grade dropout and an ex-felon. He purchased his airplane with workers comp money received due to an accident that cost him his left eye. Post flew a Lockheed Vega that he named the Winnie Mae. Interview with Pearl Carter Smith, a female pilot who learned to fly from Post. Wiley Post and Will Rogers died in a plane crash on August 15, 1935, in Alaska. Interview with Rudy Post, Wiley Post?s nephew. Summary
Date
2003-12-16
Asset type
Program
Rights
Copyright Oklahoma Educational Television Authority (OETA). Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
Media type
Moving Image
Duration
00:57:35
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Credits
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OETA - Oklahoma Educational Television Authority
Identifier: AR-6061/1 (OETA (Oklahoma Educational Television Authority))
Duration: 00:57:14
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Citations
Chicago: “Wiley Post of Oklahoma,” 2003-12-16, OETA, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC, accessed January 15, 2021, http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-521-fj29883n5j.
MLA: “Wiley Post of Oklahoma.” 2003-12-16. OETA, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC. Web. January 15, 2021. <http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-521-fj29883n5j>.
APA: Wiley Post of Oklahoma. Boston, MA: OETA, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC. Retrieved from http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-521-fj29883n5j