The wreath-laying tribute to Will Rogers and Wiley Post was started with a fly-over by Steve Kirby, Oklahoma Highway Patrol Trooper assigned to the aviation division.
Steve Gragert, co-author of The Papers of Will Rogers, welcomes everyone to the Will Rogers and Wiley Post wreath-laying tribute.
Colors were posted by members of the Cherokee Nation Talking Leaves Job Corp.
Joe Grayson, Deputy Chief of the Cherokee Nation, talked about Will Rogers birth in the Cherokee Nation and his Cherokee heritage
Doris Lane Meyer, grand-niece of Will Rogers, shares a few interesting memories with the crowd.
Doris "Coke" Meyer, grand-niece of Will Rogers, and Joe Grayson, Deputy Chief of the Cherokee Nation, placed a wreath at the Will Rogers tomb Tuesday marking the anniversary of his Au. 15, 1935 death in an Alaskan plane crash.
Drumbeat to the "Lord's Prayer" by Stanley John.
Will Rogers Memorial staff member's Juna Phillips, Andy Hogan and Carol Low share stories following the ceremony.
Juna Phillips shares her Cherokee heritage with fellow employees.
Doris "Coke" Meyers gives an interview with a few of the network stations.
Sherry Covington of the Will Rogers Memorial staff, Stanley Johns and Michelle Lefebvre-Carter, Will Rogers Memorial Museums director, view some of Johns' paintings.
