Douglas Perry

3 weeks ago | oregonlive.com | Douglas Perry

Thirty years after it ended, Gene Klare reluctantly agreed to talk about the traumatic period that upended his life. The occasion was an academic conference, held at Portland State in the 1990s. It didn’t go well. “He nearly came to blows with an audience member,” recalled Marcus Widenor, a retired University of Oregon professor.

1 month ago | oregonlive.com | Douglas Perry

Conservative icon William F. Buckley Jr. will be featured on a stamp, the United States Postal Service announced. The USPS called Buckley “one of the most influential public intellectuals in modern U.S. history” and the man who “defined the conservative movement of the mid-20th century.”The honor comes in the year that would have been Buckley’s 100th birthday. He died in 2008. Is this stamp happening because Donald Trump is back in the White House? Not likely.

1 month ago | adn.com | Tatum Todd |Beth Nakamura |Douglas Perry

PORTLAND Ore. – Deputies blocked the road leading into the Cascade Locks Marine Park on Thursday morning as the Hood River County Sheriff’s Office and a team of salvage divers prepared to retrieve possible evidence in a long ago – but not forgotten – mystery. In December 1958, Portlanders Ken and Barbara Martin and their three young daughters headed east in the family’s cream-colored Ford station wagon to find a Christmas tree. They never returned.

1 month ago | oregonlive.com | Tatum Todd |Beth Nakamura |Douglas Perry

Deputies blocked the road leading into the Cascade Locks Marine Park on Thursday morning as the Hood River County Sheriff’s Office and a team of salvage divers prepared to retrieve possible evidence in a long ago – but not forgotten – mystery. In December 1958, Portlanders Ken and Barbara Martin and their three young daughters headed east in the family’s cream-colored Ford station wagon to find a Christmas tree. They never returned. An intensive search of the region followed, turning up nothing.

Nov 22, 2024 | oregonlive.com | Douglas Perry

Three weeks after Carl Cletus Bowles disappeared, Gov. Tom McCall made an unusual and unexpected appeal to the convicted killer. “Carl, your escape from the custody of the Oregon State Penitentiary has placed in jeopardy the finest prison superintendent and the most progressive correctional program in the United States,” McCall said on June 7, 1974, in a radio broadcast.