Currently at the Memorial & Museum
First Person Summer Series Features Carla Wade
July 14, 2011
The Memorial Mission Statement describes the Memorial as a place that “. . . should evoke feelings of compassion and hope, and inspire visitors to live their lives more meaningfully.”
Join us this summer for a First Person: Stories of Hope program and hear from people whose stories not only meet that mission, but also allow us to experience history – and the Oklahoma Standard – from those who lived it. The First Person Summer Series, included free with Museum admission, is offered in the Museum’s Center for Education & Outreach on Fridays at 1:30 p.m. from June 3 to August 26.
Carla Wade, Family Member
1:30pm, Friday, July 15
As a student at the University of Oklahoma, Carla Wade won an Associated Press Broadcaster’s Award for her radio news coverage of the first anniversary of the Murrah Building bombing, in which her father, Johnny Wade, an engineer with the Federal Highway Administration, was killed. She continued to document the bombing from her family’s point of view in television reports, an article for Ladies Home Journal, and a live report from the execution of Timothy McVeigh.
After graduating with honors from OU, Wade worked as a television reporter at KSWO in Lawton, Oklahoma, before moving to Lexington, Kentucky, where she was weekend anchor at the ABC affiliate. She has returned to Oklahoma and is now part of the news team at KOCO Eyewitness News 5.
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