Oklahoma's governor is seeking the resignation of four county officials after an audio recording apparently captured some of them speaking about killing journalists and using racist language.
Oklahoma's governor is seeking the resignation of four county officials after a newspaper's audio recording apparently captured some of them complaining about two of the paper's journalists and knowing hit men and where two holes are dug.
The recording's authenticity couldn't immediately be verified. None of the four returned telephone calls or emails from The Associated Press Monday seeking comment. "In addition to being illegally obtained, the audio does not match the 'transcription' of that audio and is not precisely consistent with what has been put into print," the statement says.
"I talked on two different occasions to our attorneys to make sure I wasn't doing anything illegal," Bruce Willingham said. Joey Senat, a journalism professor at Oklahoma State University, said he was shocked to hear the comments made in the recording, especially in light of recent killings of journalists in the U.S., includingof a Las Vegas-area elected official accused of fatally stabbing a veteran newspaper reporter who had been investigating him.
McCurtain County is in far southeast Oklahoma, bordering both Arkansas and Texas, in a part of the state often referred to as"Little Dixie" because of the influence in the area of White Southerners who migrated there after the Civil War.
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