[Photograph 2012.201.B1028.0478]
Description:
Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Thousands came from town and country of southern Oklahoma to pay simple respect Wednesday to Wiley Post, whose flag-draped body lay in state in the Baptist Church at Maysville. National Guardsmen and police assisted a crowd of over 7,000 who came for a last view of the farm boy who rose from a cotton patch just outside of town to worldwide fame."
Date:
August 22, 1935
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Oklahoma Historical Society