Word: tulsa
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When Esther Clark first walked into the state welfare office at Tulsa back in 1942, there was no doubt that she was in real need of help. Her husband, John Clark, a junkyard laborer, was earning next to nothing, and they had six children to support. To tide the family over, the state began giving $90 a month to Esther Clark for the support of their three youngest children...
...still the monthly checks kept coming. Flourishing in the new prosperity, Esther Clark began constructing a life of her own on the proceeds. She took up horseback riding, bought a saddle and boots and, finally, a horse for herself. Envious friends frequently observed her cantering nonchalantly around the Tulsa fairgrounds...
Last week, in a court dispute over the custody of their children, John Clark, 51, made his old predicament public. Called into Tulsa district court to explain, state relief authorities admitted keeping up the payments for four years over Clark's objections. Their excuse: the Clarks were quarreling at the time and the situation was "extremely confused." Esther Clark in her turn admitted having purchased the horse out of her relief checks. But, she hastened to add, the riding boots were secondhand...
...make me a man from now on." He was marched to meals with other prisoners. He was asked to sit, experimentally, in the electric chair, did so, and said: "It made my flesh crawl." He was introduced to one Carl De Wolf, soon to be electrocuted for shooting a Tulsa detective. De Wolf rose to the occasion too, and said: "I was just a punk like you when I first got into trouble...
After 24 hours, Kimbrell was brought back to Tulsa's county jail. Said he: "I want to get down on my knees in front of my mother and tell her she was always right when she kept after me to be the right kind of a boy. I've learned my lesson. I'm going to ask God to help me live a better life...