Town note
Chickasha was founded by Hobart John Stone Whitley, a land developer, banker, farmer and Rock Island Railroad executive.
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FILE 214 / 11 March 2021 / 155 MIN / full
We're going to Chickasha, Oklahoma, spelled C-H-I-C-K-A-S-H-A; it's in central Oklahoma, in Grady County, area code 405. about 0:07:16
Chickasha was founded by Hobart John Stone Whitley, a land developer, banker, farmer and Rock Island Railroad executive.
about 0:08:32The town was founded in 1892 when the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railways built a track through what was then Indian territory; a post office followed in June 1892.
about 0:09:27The Chickasha Cotton Oil Company, one of the earliest industrial plants in the town, was established in 1899.
about 0:09:27When founded, Chickasha was in Pontotoc County, in what was the Chickasaw nation's territory.
about 0:09:55Chickasha was founded by Hobart John Stone Whitley, a land developer, banker, farmer and Rock Island Railroad executive.
about 0:08:32The town was founded in 1892 when the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railways built a track through what was then Indian territory; a post office followed in June 1892.
about 0:09:27The Chickasha Cotton Oil Company, one of the earliest industrial plants in the town, was established in 1899.
about 0:09:27When founded, Chickasha was in Pontotoc County, in what was the Chickasaw nation's territory.
about 0:09:55The Oklahoma Industrial Institute and College for Girls was established in Chickasha in 1908.
about 0:10:29Local rancher J.B. Sparks donated the land for the school in memory of his daughter Nelly, a Chickasaw descendant whose allotment the land had been part of.
about 0:11:10The Nelly Sparks dormitory commemorated her; the school was renamed the Oklahoma College for Women in 1916.
about 0:11:44It became co-educational in 1965 and was renamed the Oklahoma College of Liberal Arts.
about 0:11:53It was renamed again in 1975 as the University of Science and Arts of Oklahoma.
about 0:12:29The Wilson and Bone Flying School opened in October 1941 to train US Army Air Force cadets; over 8,000 cadets completed training there during the Second World War.
about 0:12:37After the war the facility became Chickasha Municipal Airport.
about 0:12:57The army built and used Borden General Hospital during the war; the site now holds Grady Memorial Hospital, Five Oaks Medical Group, Southern Plains Medical Center and Borden Park.
about 0:13:08A prisoner of war camp was established on the site in 1944; it is now the Grady County fairgrounds.
about 0:13:26Chickasha was hit by an F2 tornado in 1999.
about 0:15:2147.5%
Biggest faith: Baptists, 27.5%
about 0:22:56White 74.6% · Black 6.1% · Asian 0.6% · Hispanic 9.4%
Ethnicity can overlap race.Property crime
▲ about 20% above
Violent crime
▲ about 25% higher
Two-bedroom, one-bath house, 744 square feet
about 0:27:24Two-bedroom, two-bath house, 1,505 square feet on 2.33 acres
about 0:28:02Three-bedroom, three-bath brick house, 1,620 square feet
about 0:28:15"about 20% above"
Comparison: "the national average". Direction: above.
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"about 25% higher"
Comparison: "the national average". Direction: above.
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"16,256"
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"52%"
Comparison: "48% male". No direction stated.
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"about 37 and a half"
Comparison: "in line with the rest of the country". Direction: about the same.
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"almost double"
Direction: above.
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"74.6%"
Comparison: "normally about 62%". No direction stated.
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"6.1%"
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"0.6%"
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"2.6%"
Comparison: "well above the norm". Direction: above.
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"9.4%"
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"47.5%"
Comparison: "Mustang, Oklahoma, about 65%". No direction stated.
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"27.5%"
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"0.0%"
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"0.0%"
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"$40,376"
Comparison: "about $57,500 in the rest of the country". No direction stated.
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"about 78"
Comparison: "100 is the regular average". Direction: below.
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"31 out of 100"
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"$71,400"
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"almost 80%"
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"about $700 a month"
Comparison: "about $1,300 in the rest of the country". No direction stated.
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"$38,000"
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"$53,500"
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"$129,900"
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3.0 / 5 · average of 5
“A basic Oklahoma town where people like high school football on Friday nights and church on Sundays; a good place to settle down quietly.”about 0:16:30
“A great small town with the basic commodities such as Walmart and McDonald's, mostly friendly people and a cool downtown area.”about 0:17:24
“A very safe place apart from the occasional mishaps; the reviewer complains about waiting too long at stop lights with no other cars around.”about 0:17:45
“A town where almost anything can happen; there is crime but it is not that bad, with a few things to do such as bowling, laser tag, playgrounds, a library and a thrift store.”about 0:19:22
“The weather here will surprise you.”about 0:20:45
Charles Keene, known to everybody as Buck, was born on 5 May 1956 and grew up to be a large, violent man of more than 200 pounds. Despite that, by January 1983 he was living back in her trailer in Chickasha, Oklahoma, with her and her two young sons, although the couple were not together.
Buck came out after them with a butcher knife and chased them into the yard. The brothers did the sensible thing and went to the deputy sheriff's office, but the deputy told them there was nothing he could do.
He was angry, and he had been on the receiving end of Buck's violence himself. The four of them, drinking and smoking, worked out a plan. They would beat Buck, throw him in a car, drive him out to a highway in the middle of nowhere and leave him with a warning never to come back. It was, as James describes it, the sort of beating a casino gives a cheat before dumping him in the desert.
They went to the trailer and Buck, strangely, offered little resistance. Buck broke free and ran. The four chased him through the dark until he reached the house of Murdle 'Possum' Brown, who lived by the Washita River. Buck banged on the door shouting, 'Possum, let me in, they're gonna kill me.' The Browns, just home from a holiday and asleep early, did not open the door. Looking out, they saw three or four men beating another man on the steps and heard one of them shout, 'This is for the way you treated our sister.' Possum telephoned the sheriff, and the men left before deputies arrived, having knocked Buck unconscious and stuffed him into the boot of the car.
They drove under a bridge near the Washita River. What happened there depends on who was talking.
One witness heard the group leave saying, 'We're going to kill Charles.' Vicky did not report Buck missing.
On 18 February 1983, nearly a month later, Buck's body was recovered from the river. He had been shot once in the head and once in the chest with the .45, his throat, chest and abdomen had been sliced open, he had stab wounds and bruises, and his left leg was broken. He was chained to a concrete block. The autopsy found the gunshot wounds were the cause of death. Blood matching Buck's type was found in the car, a .45 cartridge case was found in Possum Brown's front yard, a stain on Brown's porch proved to be Buck's blood, and a chewed piece of fabric in the dog pen matched the missing hat.
By 2019 he was still inside, next eligible in 2021. His old high school girlfriend, Donetta Bradford, who had testified against him, reconnected with him and said he was a boy who saw no other way to protect his family.
January 1983 / Chickasha, Oklahoma, from his trailer to the Washita River
As told in the episode, on 11 March 2021.
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