Robert Leo Bowman, Special Agent

U.S. Department of Interior

Agent Bowman was charged with enforcement of liquor laws. On September 19, 1912, agent Bowman and W R Mayfield, City Marshal of Lenepah had set up a check point about one mile south of the Kansas border. About 4 P.M. they observed four horse drawn wagons headed south. They stopped the wagons, found they were carrying liquor and arrested the four drivers. Agent Bowman then climbed on the wagons to start destroying the booze while Mayfield kept a watch on the prisoners. Unknown to the officers, two cars had been following the wagons as guards. As the cars approached, their occupants opened fire on the officers with rifles and shotguns killing Bowman instantly. Mayfield was wounded but survived.

Henry Harrison Jackson, Federal Prohibition Agent

The morning of Friday, April 15, 1932, Agent Jackson and two other Prohibition Agents were searching for a whiskey still in the Frogville community southeast of Hugo in Choctaw County when they came upon Robert Smith and attempted to disarm him. During the struggle Agent Jackson was wounded in the abdomen by Smith who then escaped. That afternoon Agent Jackson, 42, was transported to the Paris Sanitarium in Paris, Texas where he died two days later at 2 P.M. Sunday, April 17th. Jackson was survived by his wife, a daughter and two sons.

Paul Gregory Broxterman, Criminal Investigator

U.S. Inspector General's Office

Broxterman, 43, was assigned to the Department of Housing and Urban Development office on the fifth floor of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City only two days before the bombing of the building on April 19, 1995. A wife, two sons and a daughter survived Broxterman.

Otto P. Butler, Federal Prohibition Agent

On the evening of Wednesday, December 11, 1929, Agent Butler and his partner Agent George S. Danhour made an undercover purchase of liquor from John Young in his barber shop in Cushing then arrested him. When Butler went to search the rear of the shop he was met by Young’s wife, Latosca, who shot the agent several times. She then ran to the front of the shop and shot Danhour. The shots attracted the attention of Payne County Deputy Sheriffs who arrested the Youngs without resistance. Danhour survived his wounds however Butler was dead on arrival at a Cushing hospital.

Cynthia Lynn Campbell-Brown, Special Agent

U.S. Secret Service

Special Agent Campbell-Brown had served fourteen months at her first assignment, which was the Oklahoma City field office, in the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building when it was bombed at 9:02 A.M. Wednesday morning, April 19, 1995, and she was killed. She was survived by her husband of less than six weeks who was also a Secret Service agent

Harley Richard Cottingham, Special Agent

U.S. Department of Defense Investigative Services

Cottingham had been an agent for the Defense Investigative Service for eleven years when he was killed in the bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City on April 19, 1995.

Peter L. DeMaster, Special Agent

U.S. Department of Defense Investigative Service

DeMaster had been an agent for the Defense Investigative Service for eleven years when he was killed in the bombing of the Alfred P, Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City on April 19, 1995. DeMaster was survived by his wife, a daughter and a stepson.

Kirby Frans, Federal Prohibition Agent

U. S. Internal Revenue Service

Agent Frans and his partner Agent Joal Bates had gone to Perry to serve a search warrant for the property of George Willis on Friday, November 19, 1920. Upon arrival Mrs. Willis led the agents to a cellar in the back yard. The agents found a working 50-gallon still in the cellar. While inspecting the contraband, George Willis opened fire on the agents from the rear of the cellar, wounding Frans in the chest. Mrs. Willis begged her husband not to kill the agents and they were allowed to leave. Agent Frans was taken to a hospital in Oklahoma City where he died during surgery the next morning, November 20th. George Willis was never apprehended for Agent Frans’s murder.

Ernest M. Harkins, U.S. Postal Inspector

U.S. Postal Service

About 8:15 A.M. on the morning of Wednesday, January 12, 1949, Inspector Harkins, 51, was bent over checking his post office box for mail at the Main Post office located in the Federal Building in downtown Oklahoma City when a man walked up beside him and shot him in the back of the head, killing him. The man, Joseph Donnelly, 69, blamed Inspector Harkins for the loss of two postal money orders for $20 each. After killing Harkins, Donnelly calmly walked a few feet and waited for police. His wife Grace and two daughters survived Harkins

Alexander S. Heronime, Officer

U.S. Department of Defense Police

On the afternoon of Friday, December 5, 1958, Officer Heronime, 55, was directing traffic at Southeast 29th Street and Industrial Boulevard near Gate Seven (now Hruskocy Gate) of Tinker Air Force Base in Oklahoma City. As he was directing a flatbed truck out of Gate Seven onto S.E. 29th Street Officer Heronime was struck by a car driven by 17-year-old Peggy Jack. Although Heronime was rushed to the Tinker Base hospital, he was dead on arrival. Officer Heronime was survived by his wife, a son and a daughter.

Paul Douglas Ice, Senior Special Agent

U.S. Customs Service

Agent Ice was one of the first U S Customs agents assigned to the Oklahoma City office in the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in 1988. At 9:02 A.M. on Wednesday, April 19, 1995, Agent Ice, 42, was standing at the desk of investigative assistant Patricia Salyers in the Customs office on the fifth floor when a truck bomb exploded in front of the building killing Agent Ice. Salyer’s desk fell three floors into the area that once had been the day care center. Although she sustained serious injuries, she survived. Agent Ice was survived by two daughters.

Donald Ray Leonard, Special Agent

U.S. Secret Service

Agent Leonard was serving his twenty-fifth year as a Secret Service agent when he was killed in the bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City on Wednesday, April 19, 1995. Agent Leonard had served three and one half years as an Oklahoma City Police officer prior to joining the Secret Service. His wife Diane and three sons survived agent Leonard.

Mickey Bryant Maroney, Special Agent

U.S. Secret Service

Agent Maroney was the youngest of eleven children. Maturing to six-feet five-inches in height, he was recruited to the University of Arkansas football team by Assistant Coach Berry Switzer. He was defense end with Arkansas when they won the National Championship in 1964. Maroney became an agent with the Secret Service in 1970. Agent Maroney was killed in the bombing of the Alfred P Murrah Federal Building at 9:02 A.M. Wednesday, April 19, 1995. His wife, son, daughter and stepson survived him

Bill Mayes, Federal Prohibition Agent

Sunday morning, May 4, 1919, Agent Mayes along with another Agent, William Miller went to the Kiamichi hills near Sherwood in the northern part of McCurtain County with the purpose of raiding a moonshine still operated by West Henry. Both agents were killed from ambush when they were each shot in the back twice with a 30-30 rifle and Miller was shot once in the face with a shotgun by Henry. Henry soon after surrendered himself to the sheriff and admitted the killings. Agent Mayes was survived by his wife and two children

Kenneth Glenn McCullough, Special Agent

U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency

Agent McCullough, 36, served in the U S Army for six years leaving at the rank of Captain. He then worked for the Defense Investigative Service and had been a DEA agent for five years when he was killed in the bombing of the Alfred P Murrah Federal Building at 9:02 A.M. Wednesday, April 19, 1995. His wife, son and daughter survived him.

Claude Arthur Medearis, Special Agent in Charge

U.S. Customs Service

Agent Medearis, 41, was transferred to the Oklahoma City field office in 1992, from Texas where he served as a Customs Agent along the Texas-Mexico border. Agent Medearis was promoted to Senior Special Agent in Charge of the Oklahoma City office shortly before his death in the bombing of the Alfred P Murrah Federal Building at 9:02 A.M. the morning of Wednesday, April 19, 1995. Agent Medearis was survived by his wife Sharon, son, daughter and four grandchildren

Will Miller, Federal Prohibition Agent

Sunday morning, May 4, 1919, Agent Miller along with another Agent, Will Mayes went to the Kiamichi hills near Sherwood in the northern part of McCurtain County with the purpose of raiding a moonshine still operated by a man named West Henry. Both agents were killed from ambush when they were each shot in the back twice with a 30-30 rifle and Miller was shot once in the face with a shotgun by Henry. Miller apparently was able to turn and fire one shot from his revolver before being shot in the face. Henry soon after surrendered himself to the sheriff and admitted the killings. Agent Miller was survived by his wife.

Henry W. Oats – Federal Prohibition Agent 

The afternoon of Thursday, February 5, 1925, Oats and two other prohibition agents noticed a man and two women washing a car in Salt Creek between DeNoya and Fairfax in Osage County. The officers walked down to the creek and questioned the trio and determined that the car was stolen. Agent Oats started to drive the car up out of the creek with the man with him in the front seat. The officers had not searched the man. As the car reached the road the man tried to push Oats out of the car but he resisted so the man pulled a .45, shot Oats in the stomach then fled on foot. Oats fired several shots at the man hitting him once in the right arm. Agent Oats died the next day of his wound.

Howard D. Oursler, Federal Prohibition Agent 

H.D. Oursler was a special agent assigned to the Muskogee office.  He had gone to Stilwell and made purchases of liquor from several sources, one of them Ed Dudley. On Wednesday, October 12, 1932, Oursler and a driver, Elmer Philpott, went back to Stilwell to make arrests when they saw Dudley standing on a street corner. Oliver approached Dudley announcing he was a federal agent and that he was arresting him. Dudley protested at which time the officer grabbed him and attempted to subdue him. During the fight which followed Dudley was able to get Oursler’s gun and fire into the agent’s abdomen, then turned the gun on Philpott hitting him in the leg. Dudley then walked away. 

Both Oursler and Philpott were transported to a local hospital but the efforts of the doctor were in vain and Oursler died four hours after being shot.

 A huge posse was formed and a search of the hills gave no results.  Four days after the shooting, on Saturday Dudley called the sheriff’s office to surrender. He was arraigned on first degree murder charges in the killing of Special Agent H.D. Oursler.

William Louis Pappan, Investigator
Alcohol Tax Unit
Internal Revenue Service, U.S. Treasury Department 

Just before midnight on Wednesday, December 4, 1935, Agent Pappan and private investigator George Stewart went to the Sheridan Club at 51^st and Sheridan Road in Tulsa.  Agent Pappan was talking to J.L. Birkhead, a former county highway patrolman who was operating the spotlight for a floor show in progress, when George L. “Hickory” McCullough and Tyree Parks approached him from the club’s kitchen area.  A fight broke out between the three men and Stewart. The struggle continued outside the club and shots were heard. Witnesses found both Agent Pappan and Stewart dead.  Both men had been beaten severely about the head. Stewart had been shot twice in the left side with bullets that penetrated his body from side to side, and once in the head.  Pappan had been shot five times in the back of the head in addition to a fractured skull from the blows to his head. Four guns were found lying around the bodies.  McCullough and Parks were both arrested and charged with the murders, both having long histories with Tulsa county law enforcement. Pappan’s obituary noted that he was a first cousin of Charles Curtis, the former Vice-President of the United States under President Herbert Hoover. Agent Louis Pappan was survived by his wife and six children from two marriages.

Donald F. Reis, Correctional Officer

El Reno Federal Reformatory

Donald F. Reis was born in Chillicothe, Ohio on August 22, 1916. He served in the U.S. Army during World War II. In 1960 he joined the U.S. Bureau of Prisons as a correctional officer at the Ohio Federal Reformatory in Chillicothe. In 1966 he transferred to the El Reno Federal Reformatory. In August of 1974 he was promoted to Senior Officer Specialist. About 8:30 P.M. the evening of Friday, February 28, 1975, Officer Reis was found dead in the reformatory’s chapel with numerous stab wounds to his neck. A Black Muslim service had been conducted in the chapel earlier. Three inmates, reported to be Black Muslims, were convicted of Correctional Officer Reis’ murder. Officer Reis was survived by his wife and daughter . On January 28, 1986, the Staff Fitness Center at the El Reno reformatory was dedicated in the name of Officer Reis.

Stanton Weiss, Federal Prohibition Agent

On Saturday, August 28, 1920, Stanton Weiss and Reed Miller, Federal Prohibition Agents, along with Oklahoma County Deputy Sheriffs Claude Tyler and Homer Adrean, went to the home of Charles Chandler, who reportedly was the connection to all the illegal liquor in the area. The lawmen found a still some distance from the house. Agent Miller stayed to guard the still while the other three officers approached the Chandler house. Tyler went to the back door as Weiss and Adrean knocked on the front door. After entering the house, Tyler was sent upstairs to conduct a search. Finding several containers of illegal liquor Tyler leaned his rifle against the wall to take a closer look at his findings.  Charles Chandler grabbed the rifle and shot Deputy Tyler in the neck. Hearing the gunshots upstairs, Claude Chandler, the 18 year old son of Charles, pulled a handgun and shot Agent Weiss in the face.  The two Chandler men ran out the backdoor, but first Claude fired once more into the prone Agent Weiss killing him. As Charles Chandler rounded the corner of the house he was shot and killed by Deputy Adrean.  Claude Chandler, who was following his father, then shot Deputy Adrean, killing him. Agent Miller, hearing the gunfire, ran toward the house and was met by Claude Chandler running away from the house. Miller arrested Claude Chandler and recovered a .32 caliber revolver that Chandler had thrown into the bushes. Deputy Tyler was taken to St. Anthony Hospital in Oklahoma City where he made a full recovery.  Claude Chandler was taken to the Oklahoma County Jail in Oklahoma City. Shortly after 10 p.m. the next evening, a mob of about 30 men broke into the jail, removed Chandler and he was found hanging from a tree on Reno Avenue the following morning. Agent Stanton Weiss was survived by his wife.
 

Alan Gerald Whicher, Assistant Special Agent In Charge

U. S. Secret Service