Will Rogers

This page relates to the humorist; for others with similar names see William Rogers (disambiguation).

Death

An avid booster of aviation, Rogers undertook a polar flight with a fellow Oklahoman, Wiley Post, in the summer of 1935. Post's plane crashed at Point Barrow, Alaska, on 15 August 1935, killing both Post and Rogers.

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Wiley Post - 1935 - Point Barrow, Alaska - 15 August

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In 1944 his body was moved from a holding vault in California to the grounds of the Will Rogers Memorial Museum in Claremore, Oklahoma. Later in 1944, Mrs. Rogers was interred beside him. On November 4th, 1948, the United States Postal Service commemorated Rogers with a first day cover of a 3-cent stamp with his image--the inscription reads, "In honor of Will Rogers, Humorist, Claremore, Oklahoma."

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1944 - California - Will Rogers Memorial Museum - Claremore, Oklahoma

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