Volume 8 , Issue 52

KWTV - Out of the Past

"Here are some more folks we worked with at channel 9. This photo was published in 1959. I began working there in the summer of 1957. A few memories about these folks:

Wayne Liles tried (unsuccessfully) to get me to return to working at KWTV several times after I'd moved on. He too was a member of the Britton Christian Church and knew my grandparents, the W. Orville Lewis's, and my aunt Margaret Basey (Margaret was very close friends of the Liles'). Wayne was a survivor from the "Bataan Death March"! He told me that when he came out of the concentration camp there, he weighed 90 pounds. He didn't talk much about what he experienced there but he and his wife had written it all down for "the kids" to know after he was gone.

I bought a stereo cabinet (from Fran) that Bob Bealmear had built. Jerry Nixon had traded me his Pontiac convertible for a professional type 16mm movie camera that I had. Dean Goad married film editor Patsy Ratcliff but that didn't last long and she later married an advertising executive. D.K. "Spec" Hart was an engineer who returned to the station many years later (I don't know his present email address) and is now retired (again) I think. Bob Guyer grew up in Edmond and knew my great-aunt Lela Chitwood (there's a Chitwood park named for the family) on the old home place there.

I'd already mentioned Barbara (Dunn) Powell and also Bob Dennis. Jack Jones did excellent work in the film lab and I think that it was he who made the second series of animated film openings for Lagniappe (I made the first ones with that camera I traded to Jerry Nixon). Lloyd Costellow was an avid coin collector. He'd worked as an engineer at KTOK back when I was in highschool performing on a "kid's" gospel program that we called "The Crusaders" (put on vinyl transcriptions on Saturdays for rebroadcast on Sunday mornings). I had 2 of those transcriptions and Lloyd copied them to audio tape for me. More memories later. -- Roy K.
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