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Jerry McConnell
Fortunately, my wife and I have both been pretty healthy since I retired from The Oklahoman on the last day of 1991 and moved back to my old hometown of Greenwood, AR., which is about 10 miles from the Oklahoma line.
JERRY MCCONNELL: Jerry and Jo McConnell. Jerry is a former sports editor at The Oklahoman. Photo provided. ORG XMIT: kod
Fortunately, my wife and I have both been pretty healthy since I retired from The Oklahoman on the last day of 1991 and moved back to my old hometown of Greenwood, AR., which is about 10 miles from the Oklahoma line.
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For several years I mainly worked in my big yard, did a little political work, ran one political campaign (we won), traveled quite a bit and cultivated my taste for good jazz and good Scotch.
For the past three or four years, however, I have been in charge of an oral history project on the Arkansas Democrat newspaper, now the Democrat-Gazette, for the Pryor Center for Oral and Visual History at the University of Arkansas-Fayetteville. We have tried to interview as many people as possible who worked for the paper over the years and record their reflections on what that experience was like and what kind of newspaper it was. It has been my job to decide who would be interviewed, find some people to do some of the interviews and conduct many of them myself.
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