325- The Worst Way to Start a City

99% Invisible

• Episode: 325- The Worst Way to Start a City
• Website: 99% Invisible
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• Duration: 00:31:07
• Published: 2018-10-17 00:02

Sam Anderson, author of Boom Town, guides us through the chaotic founding of Oklahoma City, which happened all in one day in 1889, in an event called the Land Run.

Plus, we talk about Operation Bongo, the supersonic flight tests that rattled OKC residents in the 1960s. Anderson calls Operation Bongo his favorite research discovery of his entire career.

The Worst Way to Start a City