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Way back when: Today in history
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Gen. Douglas MacArthur

By GENE CURTIS
Published: 10/20/2009 2:20 AM
Last Modified: 10/20/2009 5:19 AM

1934

Adam Richetti, running mate of Oklahoma badman Charles "Pretty Boy" Floyd, was captured after a gun battle with officers in Wellsville, Ohio, but Floyd and another companion escaped. Floyd and Richetti were wanted for a bank robbery near Wellsville and for the Kansas City Union Station massacre in 1933. Richetti told officers he had not seen Floyd for a year but the bank victims identified them as the robbers. Richetti was executed for the massacre.

1944

Gen. Douglas MacArthur waded through the surf at Palo Beach onto Leyte in the Philippine Islands to make good his 2 1/2-year-old vow that "I shall return." He left the Philippines for Australia in March 1942 on order of President Franklin Roosevelt to avoid capture by the Japanese.

1968

Jacqueline Kennedy, 39, widow of President John F. Kennedy, married Greek shipping magnate Aristotle Onassis, 62, in a Greek Orthodox ceremony on Scorpios, Onassis' private Ionian Sea island. The wedding was witnessed by 40 people, all family members.

2004

Army Staff Sgt. Ivan "Chip" Frederick, 38, pleaded guilty to abusing Iraqi detainees at Abu Ghraib prison. An Army reservist from Buckingham, Va., he was a corrections officer in civilian life and was the highest ranking soldier in the scandal. He was sentenced to eight years in prison.

To purchase "Only in Oklahoma," a book of collected columns by Gene Curtis, visit, tulsaworld.com/OnlyinOklahoma

Gene Curtis, 581-8304
gene.curtis@tulsaworld.com By GENE CURTIS

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