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Remembering Henry Bellmon, a subseries of the Spotlighting Oklahoma Oral History Project, seeks to complete the story of beloved Oklahoman Henry Bellmon through the voices of people who worked with him and for him during his political career. Interviews with his three daughters are also included. 

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Call Number SOK
Dates 2010 - 2013

Interviews in Remembering Henry Bellmon

Oral History Interview Description
Ann McFerron 12/16/2011 Ann McFerron was born in Enid, Oklahoma in 1952 to Henry and Shirley Bellmon.
Charles Waters 05/25/2011 Charles Waters, general counsel for Oklahoma’s Department of Human Services, was reared in Skiatook, Oklahoma. In high school, he and his brother organized a debate team, and in 1961 he was the state debate…
Claudia Scribner 09/21/2011 Claudia Scribner graduated from Oklahoma State University in 1973. She joined the staff of Senator Henry Bellmon’s Oklahoma City office. She started as a receptionist and later became the office manager…
Don Ferrell 03/10/2011 Don Ferrell was elected to the Oklahoma state Senate in 1966 and served through 1974. Ferrell met Henry Bellmon in the 1960s when Bellmon was the state Republican chairman. Ferrell helped Bellmon in his…
Drew Mason 09/14/2011 Drew Mason assisted with several of Henry Bellmon’s political campaigns and would work with him as governor and U.S. Senator.
Elizabeth Morgan Reece 04/26/2011 Elizabeth "Liz" Morgan Reece was born and reared in Oklahoma. After graduating from high school she enrolled in the University of Oklahoma and earned a degree in journalism in 1962. Her first job in journalism…
Forest Reece 04/26/2011 Reece met Henry Bellmon through an invitation to attend a Bellmon staff party in 1969. At this party he was introduced to Elizabeth "Liz" Morgan. Three months later Forest and Liz were married. From October…
Gail Wynne 09/16/2011 Gail Wynne was born in Enid, Oklahoma in 1950 to Henry and Shirley Bellmon.
Katherine Christie 06/25/2010 Katherine (Kathy) Christie worked on Henry Bellmon's first campaign for governor (1962) and remained close with his family through the years. She talks about how she first came to Oklahoma and how she…
Kent Olson & Carol Olson 08/06/2011 Carol Olson was born in Washington, D.C. in 1943. She is a three time graduate of Oklahoma State University, receiving a bachelor’s degree in 1977, a master’s in 1979, and a doctorate in 1982. Carol was…
Lee Paden 03/15/2011 Lee Paden was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma and reared in Sand Springs, Oklahoma. Following high school he attended Oklahoma Baptist University and then went on to law school at the University of Oklahoma. He…
Lou Moore Hale 10/25/2011 Lou Moore Hale, creator of the Henry Bellmon sculpture located in the Henry Bellmon Research Building on the Oklahoma State University campus, is a native Oklahoman. While she began sculpting in the early…
Pat Hoerth 12/16/2011 Pat Hoerth was born in Enid, Oklahoma in 1948 to Henry and Shirley Bellmon.
Robert Fulton 11/21/2013 Robert Fulton had a long career in government service and credits former Oklahoma governor and U.S. Senator Henry Bellmon for a large part of his success. Fultont talks about his background and about how…
Robert Harlan Henry 05/24/2011 Robert Harlan Henry was nine years old in 1962 when Henry Bellmon became the first Republican governor in Oklahoma and still has memories of that campaign. He first met Bellmon in 1971 after being selected…
Robert L. Haught 06/25/2010 Robert (Bob) Haught, a 1954 graduate of the University of Oklahoma with a degree in journalism, worked closely with former Oklahoma Governor and U.S. Senator Henry Bellmon for over sixteen years. He talks…
Rodd Moesel 07/07/2011 Rodd Moesel was born in Enid Oklahoma, and in 1963 at the age of nine he moved to Oklahoma City where his family owned and operated a greenhouse. He attended his very first 4-H club meeting in Oklahoma…
Sharon Sharp 07/07/2011 Sharon Sharp was born in Nowata, Oklahoma and attended grade school there. Her parents were involved in Republican politics and for a time her father was the Nowata County Republican Party chairman. It…
Ted Fisher 04/26/2011 Ted Fisher, born in 1941 in Holton, Kansas, moved to Jenks, Oklahoma at a young age. In 1986, Fisher was elected to the Oklahoma State Senate where he served for twenty years. During his tenure, he served…
William Burkett 02/28/2013 William 'Bill' Burkett was born in Oklahoma City in 1925. Burkett earned a law degree from the University of Oklahoma and practiced law in Woodward, Oklahoma for nineteen years. While there, he served…