[Photograph 2012.201.B1028.0510]

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Thirty years ago today, Will Rogers and Wiley Post (pictured) died in a crash near Point Barrow, Alaska. The world did not learn the news until the next day, but the crash occurred at 8:18 p.m. on August 15, 1935. An Eskimo, Clair Oakpeha, saw the fatal plunge, and walked and ran 15 miles to report what he had seen. (Original date of photo unknown, first publishing in 1965, then again in 1993)