I can't believe that I missed this one. What a neat little town with so many memorials. I love seeing old, midwest towns like this. And that Sinclair gas station is awesome!

Greetings from Lake City, FL. I hauled a lot of steel out of Houston to Dollar Trucking in Hennessey several years ago. About 2 loads per week. I never knew how the town got its name but I do now. I’ve also passed by that park many times but never realized there was a grave there. Thanks for educating me once again. 👍

@RhettyforHistory

4 жыл бұрын

That is one busy highway thru there. Lots of trucks traveling along that highway. I also heard several trains. Thank you for watching from FL!

@gearjammer4779

4 жыл бұрын

Rhett, There’s a monument you should check out near El Reno. In case you havn’t already I’ll tell you where it is. Get off of I-40 at Radio Rd. Go South past the new Loves to the stop sign. That’s Jensen Rd. Continue South 1 mile to the next road. It’s gravel. Turn left. Not far down that road you’ll see the monument on your left. It’s called the Twistex Memorial. It’s about 3 men that died. I saw it while hauling crude oil a couple of years ago.

@RhettyforHistory

4 жыл бұрын

I have heard of that one but I have not been to it. I believe those were weather chasers. Thanks for giving me directions to it. I really had no idea where it was. There is a lot of history that I need to cover in El Reno!

I love how you give the history of your subjects. I was raised in OK and never knew the story of Pat Hennessy. Very interesting! Thank you and keep it up.

@RhettyforHistory

4 жыл бұрын

I certainly plan to keep going on little obscure history stories like these. Thank you so much for watching Leslie!

IAM very happy old West tales are back it made my bad day better !!

@RhettyforHistory

4 жыл бұрын

Happy Birthday Ross and thank you so much for watching!

Thank you for the video. I remember my Uncle telling the story of Pat Hennessey. Not quite as in depth as this as you've obviously done some research that wasn't available 60 years ago. Once again, Thank you.

@RhettyforHistory

4 жыл бұрын

You're welcome Harry. I'm not sure anyone knows the actual truth on what people did it but it is quite tragic and I felt it needed to be told. Thank you so much for watching!

Thanks Rhett for telling the history of this small but very historical town and the gentleman that it's named after. I really enjoy these videos that you do. You do a wonderful job.

Really great episode full of tough time history, thank you for sharing it ,

@RhettyforHistory

3 жыл бұрын

You're welcome and thank you for watching!

Thanks for showing the small towns and cemetery grave markers of ordinary folks, famous folks, and infamous folks. Oklahoma looks wonderful.. I have never been there but now I would love to explore such a rich history in the state. Your videos are always informative and interesting. Thanks again, a viewer who gets to a little of the small great towns of Oklahoma and the historic figures you find to showcase.

@RhettyforHistory

4 жыл бұрын

You're welcome and thank you so much for watching. I believe there is a lot of little history out there worth remembering. I love finding the little lesser known ones and bringing them out in the open again. I believe that exists not only in Oklahoma but everywhere. Oklahoma just happens to be a hot bed for Native American and Old West history.

Thank you for this history lesson.

@RhettyforHistory

3 жыл бұрын

You're welcome and thank you for watching!

Thank you. Nice piece of Oklahoma history.

@RhettyforHistory

4 жыл бұрын

Little less known but I agree it is fascinating. Thank you for watching!

Thanks again you do a great job on all your history videos. God bless you.😇❤

@debramccrosson2334

4 жыл бұрын

HAPPY FATHER'S DAY l love all the history

@RhettyforHistory

4 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much for watching! I'm glad you all are enjoying the videos and the history.

I love these old west stories. Really love the intro. Please, keep them coming.

@RhettyforHistory

4 жыл бұрын

I definitely have more on the way. It's going to be a big year for old stories! Thank you for watching!

Very cool video. Thanks. The real history is not always the history that we are taught. I like how you present all sides of it.

@RhettyforHistory

4 жыл бұрын

Thank you Marsha. The town itself tries to keep his story going each year. Thank you for watching!

Great like always ! Loves the pictures !

@RhettyforHistory

4 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much for watching Jose!

Love your videos always a pleasure to watch. Thanks for sharing ☝️🙏🙏

@RhettyforHistory

4 жыл бұрын

You're welcome and thank you so much for watching Rebecca!

Love the history that you put into your videos💖💖💖👏🏼👏🏼

@RhettyforHistory

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you Michelle and I'm happy to hear you enjoy the history. I appreciate you watching and commenting.

Thank You again tot the interesting story.

@RhettyforHistory

4 жыл бұрын

You're welcome and thank you for watching Ans!

Excellent again....Thanks...

@RhettyforHistory

4 жыл бұрын

Thank you for watching John!

What a neat little town.Quite a little bit of interesting history.I am putting this town on my to visit in my home state.Thank you for a very interesting and fascinating video.

@RhettyforHistory

4 жыл бұрын

You're welcome Sharon. It is a fascinating little town to visit. That little wine bar might have some more history inside. I'm not sure. You never know what else might be there either. Thank you so much for watching!

I loved it. You find the most interesting places to visit and report on. Thank you. So perfect. Happy July 4th! ❤️🥰🤗

Another great video

@RhettyforHistory

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you and I appreciate you watching!

Such a nice little town. Interesting history there. How wonderful they are keeping up the old filling station and putting it to a new use. Thanks so much for sharing! (here I am learning stuff again) lol :)

@RhettyforHistory

4 жыл бұрын

It is great to see them keeping it up. So many of them seem to be wasting away. Thank you so much for watching!

Interesting history. I'm glad the old filling station with additions will be put to use. I hope they renew the tin ceiling, that adds charm. I've never seen a tin ceiling outside only inside buildings.

@RhettyforHistory

4 жыл бұрын

In this area and in Texas there are quite a few stations with the tin which I love. It can be expensive to replace so many don't but I hope they do too. I love that they are using it. Thank you for watching!

That was worth waiting for. So much history. How hard it must have been for people in those days. A bit like the early settlers here in Africa. Thank you Rhett that was really interesting, loved it

@RhettyforHistory

4 жыл бұрын

I really think it would have been rough in those days but they didn't know any different. We are really spoiled. Thank you so much for watching Yvonne!

thanks for the history of a state I once lived in.

@RhettyforHistory

4 жыл бұрын

You're welcome and thank you so much for watching Nadia!

Thanks. I recently stopped at the park on the hwy as passed thru. But did not know the rest of the story. Very interesting. Have to look closer next time.

@RhettyforHistory

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you for watching Dave and I'm glad you got the opportunity to stop here as well.

Leon Crosswhite was from Hennessey, OK, fullback on the 1971 Oklahoma Sooners and scored the first touchdown in The Game of the Century vs Nebraska.

@RhettyforHistory

2 жыл бұрын

I did not know that but that is interesting history to know. Thank you for watching and sharing that!

Pat Hennessey was my, I believe great great grandfather was and he grandfather. My brother is named after him. I’ve been thinking of moving there. I would like to go back home. Thank you for this very informative video.

another very interesting video !

@RhettyforHistory

4 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much for watching Ron!

Very interesting I really enjoyed it Those weren’t Shining times when he was alive

@RhettyforHistory

4 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much for watching Kirk. Those were certainly rough and challenging times.

I love small town USA! Thanks for sharing!

@RhettyforHistory

4 жыл бұрын

I do too! Thank you so much tor watching!

This is my great great great uncle, just recently found out about this and it’s pretty wild! I live like two hours away from Hennessy Oklahoma so I’ll be visiting soon!

@RhettyforHistory

3 жыл бұрын

That's quite a heritage you have and certainly worth a visit for anyone but especially you. Thank you for watching and sharing a little more.

Love those old photos

@RhettyforHistory

4 жыл бұрын

Thank you for watching!

Good one! 👍🏼👍🏼

@RhettyforHistory

4 жыл бұрын

Thank you and I appreciate you watching!

John Wilkes Booth? Which JWB are they talking about? The one I'm familiar with that shot Lincoln died in 1865.

@jeffraines414

4 жыл бұрын

That's the one

@jimbuford4147

4 жыл бұрын

@@jeffraines414 He died in 1865. The one in this town was not the same one.

@RhettyforHistory

4 жыл бұрын

You're correct. There is a popular alternative story that John Wilkes Booth lived in Granbury for awhile and then moved on to Enid, Oklahoma. For some reason a lot of these popular stories came from Texas. I have done a video on Billy The Kid and Also Jesse James but I have not done one on Booth.

Very Interesting! We drive by there every time we are going or leaving Enid. I knew the town was named for Pat Hennessey but the rest was all new to me. Thanks for bringing me up to speed on Oklahoma history that I should have known, but didn't!

@RhettyforHistory

4 жыл бұрын

You're welcome and thank you for watching. This is definitely a lesser known story and certainly not taught in school. Pretty horrific.

@ramonachapman368

4 жыл бұрын

@@RhettyforHistory yes, it is but then much in Oklahoma's history was pretty horrific!

@RhettyforHistory

4 жыл бұрын

You're absolutely right. And a lot of that part is left out of schools. Some of it should be included though.

@ramonachapman368

4 жыл бұрын

@@RhettyforHistory I agree!

Loved watching your video . hope your all doing well and staying safe. How's the puppy doing? getting big yet?

@RhettyforHistory

4 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much for watching and we are all doing well. The puppy is probably not going to get much bigger. He is sort long and short. I'm thinking he may be Chihuahua and Daschund but also maybe some other things. He weights more than our Chihuahua and Rat Terrier mix.

Well done, Sir! Hennessey looks like a peaceful town rich in history. I love the old Sinclair gas station, and am glad there are plans to restore the building. Does Hennessey have a train depot? I heard a train in the background. Thank you Rhetty! 🇺🇸🚜👍

@RhettyforHistory

2 жыл бұрын

I know a train runs thru town but I am not aware of a train depot. I am sure they either have one or had one at some point. It is right along a major route and would have been a major stopping point because of the grain growing in the surrounding area. Thank you for watching and I am sorry for the late response. Somehow youtube never gave me notification.

Great video, Rhetty! Lots of interesting history, awesome memorials, and it looks like a nice little town! My jaw, literally, dropped open when I got to the clip of the doorway leading into the old residence of John Wilkes Booth. I never did believe he died in that old barn fire/shoot out we were taught about in school. Booth was a pretty smart fellow and I always figured he wouldn't be dumb enough to let himself get cornered in a barn with no way out. There was a documentary on the History Channel (I think it was) a number of years ago that was all about trying to prove when/where/how he actually died. I don't remember the specifics, exactly, but that alias "David George" shown on the door does ring a bell. Sure would be interesting to find out once and for all what the truth is.... but, I 'spose, at this late date, we'll just never know. Good stuff, regardless! Enjoyed this one a lot! Keep'em coming! Take care, Valerie.

Lived in Hennessy for many years. Was married at the First Baptist Church, worked for Eckroat Feed and Seed, The Astro Well Service, Kirkpatrick Oil Company. Moved to Crescent and worked for Kerr McGee Nuclear Corp until it closed then back to Hennessy. Sold my house and moved to Duncan where I was born. All probably before you were born.

Another interesting & informative video. Many of the silos as seen in the video in our country towns where wheat is grown have had them painted dipicting country scenes relevant to the area, native birds & animals on the them. The paintings are the size of the silos so make an impressive art gallery. You can go from town, which has created a welcomed influx of visitors & a big tourist attraction. If the town of Henessey did this it could also become a tourist attraction. Bringing income to the town. Considering what they are doing to the gas station they might be open to the suggestion by yourself. Especially if they saw Examples of them. 🇦🇺🐨🧡🧡🧡🧡🧡🧡🧡🐨🇦🇺 Australia

Happy Father's day weekend to you ‼️💯🙋.

@RhettyforHistory

4 жыл бұрын

Thank you Carole!

@caroleroseburgh1344

4 жыл бұрын

@@RhettyforHistory you are welcome ‼️👏 👏👏 👏💯 💯

I enjoyed this look back at some of the interesting Oklahoma historical figures. I am guessing that Oklahoma hasn’t lost its mind and started tearing down statues but I’m always afraid of it happening anywhere. I think what’s happening with the destruction of our past is absolute insanity. I understand they are tearing down Ulysses S Grant statues with little regard for the fact that he helped defeat the south and refused to own slaves himself.

@RhettyforHistory

2 жыл бұрын

I'm sorry I didn't respond to this comment sooner but for some reason I never received a notification about this and several other comments. Have you ever had that happen on your channel? Luckily we had no crazy people tearing anything down here. I think people went way overboard everywhere on just about everything last year. There were multiple cases of people tearing down or defacing memorials and statues that really were not bad at all.

Let me correct my story. I was a member of the First Baptist of Hennessy. The church owned another old church where sometimes they held summer church camp. The pastor, Travis Hanna, married us at the Eden Baptist Church outside of Hennessy. Eden Baptist was built by the congregation in the late 1800’s or before statehood in 1907.

I graduated from Theodore Roosevelt High School in Honolulu, Hawaii. I’m proud to be a Rough Rider. I hope they don’t go after this statue too.

@enricosantana9062

4 жыл бұрын

If 'they' go to small towns they'll either get shot or hanged. We don't mess around with criminals!

Not sure what day you were there but maybe hit the Library if you go back. I grew up here. Back when the Library & town hall was the elementary school.

@RhettyforHistory

3 жыл бұрын

Is there something in the library I should see?

@cindyschott4404

3 жыл бұрын

@@RhettyforHistory I don't know. Someone from Hennessey said you should go to the library. 😊 Someone there should be able to direct you to all the info they have there.

@RhettyforHistory

3 жыл бұрын

Lol! I'm not sure what information I need when I didn't know I needed any.

Googled my name; and im honored to have a town named after me! haha

I believe that's a 37mm Anti Tank gun.....But (As Always) I...Could...Wrong.

@RhettyforHistory

4 жыл бұрын

I don't know anything about them so I will have to take your word. I wish they had a sign or something.

The artillery piece is a 57mm M1, a copy of the UK 6-pounder. Barry

@RhettyforHistory

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you for sharing more information about that.

@barryslemmings31

2 жыл бұрын

@@RhettyforHistory Not a problem. The 57mm weapon is an example of reverse Lend-Lease from Britain to the U.S. America's only anti-tank gun at that time was the little pop-gun 37mm and the U.S. was desperate for a bigger weapon. British drawings for the 6-pounder were supplied and then adapted to U.S. screw threads and industrial practices. The US also got rid of the free traverse in favour of traditional geared traverse. Later experiments with a British gun demonstrated the free traverse was quicker and the U.S. second model also adopted free traverse. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ordnance_QF_6-pounder I own one AP projectile and two brass cartridge cases. Barry

The "John Wilkes Booth" claimed on that sign was a person that claimed to be Booth but wasn't. After Booth was shot his body was identified by the then-Mayor of Baltimore (a friend of the Booth family), Booth's mother, his famous actor brother, his sister, and the Booth family dentist. "John St. Helen" (or whoever he was) allegedly made a "death bed" confession that he was Booth and his body was embalmed and shipped around the country to side shows and carnivals where people paid to see "The Man Who Shot Lincoln".

@RhettyforHistory

2 жыл бұрын

You're right. I just did a story on this Booth who died in Enid, Oklahoma.

@RedneckTaZ

2 жыл бұрын

@@RhettyforHistory Thanks for taking us to these places that encourage us to dig deeper into the stories.

@RhettyforHistory

2 жыл бұрын

You're welcome. There are certainly some strange stories out in different places and that how I would describe this Booth.

I’m confused, why he was killed in the first place. Seems like he was a good man. Why kill someone in such an horrific way. Absolutely horrifying. Thanks Rhetty ❤️🇦🇺

@RhettyforHistory

2 жыл бұрын

No one really knows. It's sort of a mystery but being a freight runner was no easy task. Thank you for watching!

@swansfan6944

2 жыл бұрын

@@RhettyforHistory this was a very interesting story.

I wonder if Johnny is related to Roy.

It's because the sign writer was copying the name off a cognac bottle...

John Wilkes Booth died 26 April 1865, according Google.

@RhettyforHistory

2 жыл бұрын

Yes you are right about that. There is an alternative believe story of him living and being in Granbury them making his way up to Enid, Oklahoma. That is what this is.

What an awful way to die. That poor man. Did his brothers come to Oklahoma to? Was he married and have any children? My husband know some Hennessy. I think he work with them.

@RhettyforHistory

4 жыл бұрын

I'm not sure on his brothers or the rest of the family. I'm sure it could be researched and found out though. I do have to wonder what his family thought when they heard about it. Such a horrific story really. Thank you for watching!

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@stevenwiederholt7000

4 жыл бұрын

I'm #2...I'm #2...I'm #2! :-)

@RhettyforHistory

4 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much for supporting by watching!

Could just look at those old photos forever. Well, I'd throw back a snort of Hennessy to commemorate, but cognac not being in my budget we'll have to settle for American bourbon!

@RhettyforHistory

4 жыл бұрын

Haha! I'm sure that is what most people will think of when they hear Hennessy. I love looking at old western photos. Some of those were a little newer and some were older. Thank you so much for watching!

A very interesting video I new his name but not the history but I do now thank you 💦💦

@RhettyforHistory

4 жыл бұрын

You're welcome and thank you so much for watching Sandy!

John Wilkes Booth was hanged in april of 1865 there is no way he lived in that boarding house in 1899 Either the yare lying or they are talking about someone ese who also was named john wildes booth and they got him confused

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Antfa is going to come and tare it all down😂🌽🇺🇸