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unusual facts about Wiley Post-Will Rogers Memorial Airport



Bryan Sterling

He scripted and co-produced "Will Rogers' USA," a one-man Broadway play about Rogers starring actor James Whitmore, created a daily syndicated newspaper column that featured timely quotations from Rogers' writings, and authored several definitive biographies of Rogers' life including a detailed examination of his death in the Point Barrow, Alaska, crash of an airplane piloted by famed aviator Wiley Post.

Flying Wild Alaska

The show also features other segments from their bases in Barrow, Deadhorse, and other places.

Point Barrow

It is close to Rogers-Post Site, the scene of the airplane crash on August 15, 1935 that killed aviator Wiley Post and his passenger, the entertainer Will Rogers.


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