OETA's Back In Time: “Woody Guthrie” premiere

About this event

The Oklahoma Educational Television Authority (OETA), in partnership with the Oklahoma Historical Society and the Oklahoma History Center, invites the public to a special premiere screening examining the life of Woody Guthrie. This Back in Time episode will screen on Thursday, October 8, from 1 to 3 p.m. at the Oklahoma History Center Museum. More details to follow. Back in Time is OETA’s award-winning documentary series that explores the people, places, and moments that shaped Oklahoma history. Woodrow “Woody” Guthrie (c. 1912-1967) In a time span of approximately seventeen years, Woodrow Guthrie, one of Oklahoma’s most creative native sons, wrote two autobiographical novels, numerous essays and articles, more than one thousand songs and poems, and hundreds of letters. He drew more than five hundred illustrations, recorded hundreds of songs, and was a major influence in the urban folk revival, in the folk rock movement, and in social protest song writing.