The fires in Los Angeles have destroyed the Will Rogers ... plane crash in 1935. The city’s Will Rogers Memorial Center, home of the annual Stock Show, was built in 1936 in his memory. A ...

Rogers, an Oklahoma native who was the highest paid actor and performer of his era, was a frequent visitor to Fort Worth from the 1920s until his death in a plane crash in 1935. The city’s Will ...

He recalled he was on one of his trips to Birmingham on Aug. 15, 1935, when Will Rogers and aviator Wiley Post died in a plane crash in the Alaska Territory. But those Depression-era train trips ...

Death in a transport plane is canceling the preview. The actress was the first film notable to die in an air crash since Will Rogers and Wiley Post were killed Aug. 15, 1935, near Point Barrow ...

The historic home of late actor Will Rogers was lost in the Los Angeles ... And the Hollywood icon—who died in a plane crash in 1935 at age 55—had come to build a ranch that spanned 359 ...

Globe-trotting pilot Wiley Post said he “found better airports ... increasing the frequency of car vs. plane incidents. The two merged in 1930, which fixed nothing. For more than a decade ...

Rogers moved to California in 1919 and became Hollywood’s most popular and highest-paid actor in the 1930s. He died at the age of 55 in 1935 in a plane crash ... for story updates and new articles we ...

VINITA, Okla. — The eastbound exit ramp at Big Cabin on I-44 and Will Rogers Turnpike is temporarily shut down due to an overturned semi. Oklahoma Highway Patrol (OHP) said the road closed just ...