Another marriage of note is that of Jane McAlester and William Louis Pfau.

The narrative begins just after Tom Joad is paroled from McAlester prison for homicide.

Its county seat is McAlester.

The city is located approximately east of McAlester, Oklahoma.

McAlester is a city in Pittsburg County, Oklahoma, United States.

McAlester is the home of the Oklahoma State Penitentiary, site of an " inside the walls " prison rodeo from which ESPN's SportsCenter once broadcast.

Sometimes Oklahomans refer to the state prison simply as " Big Mac " or " McAlester ," and the town is referenced in that manner in the opening pages of The Grapes of Wrath when Tom Joad is released from there.

McAlester is also the home of many of the employees of the nearby McAlester Army Ammunition Plant.

McAlester is known in political circles for having been the home base of several noted American politicians-U. S. Speaker of the House Carl Albert, who was once a heartbeat from the presidency, and longtime Oklahoma State Senator Gene Stipe, whose career ended in a series of legal problems.

Back on land, Dr. Susan McAlester ( Saffron Burrows ) has been called to meet with the President and a corporate executive of Chimera Pharmaceuticals ( the movie's fictitious medical company and the reason why McAlester is doing her research ) to discuss the escaped shark's attack.

Franklin and Janice soon see Dr. Jim Whitlock who, along with McAlester is heading the experiment.

Night comes and Dr. McAlester is called to the surface level for an emergency by the tower's secretary, Brenda.

It unravels and Jim is plunged back into the water, then grabbed by one of the test sharks who begins to pull the stretcher, and the helicopter towards the research structure, unbeknownst to McAlester and the rest who have ran back down to the laboratory in order to see what was happening.

McAlester, having found her data, is preparing to leave when she is attacked by the other smaller shark.

She and Carter see that the biggest shark is ramming the fences, attempting to get free and into the unconfined spaces of the ocean to which McAlester states that they have to kill her before she escapes.

McAlester slits open her hand and dives in to get the shark to move closer, which is does.

The opening scene for Dirty White Boys sets the tone for the rest of the novel with main antagonist Lamar Pye using brutal violence to avoid being raped by a giant black inmate in the showers at McAlester State Penitentiary where he is a " Prince " ( a ranking prisoner ) among the Dirty White Boys, the white gang element of the prisoner population.

Garrard Ardeneum ( sometimes called the McAlester Arboretum in confusion with another arboretum of this name in Missouri ), established 1990, is a combination of an arboretum and a museum with landscaped gardens and historical artifacts.

It is located at 501 North 5th Street, McAlester, Oklahoma.

The McAlester Arboretum ( 4 acres ) is an arboretum located in McAlester Park ( Peace Park ) at the University of Missouri in Columbia, Missouri.

He then appears at the same spot where McAlester and the survivors are still stuck on the ladder and saves them.

Born on October 21, 1911, in McAlester, Oklahoma, Mary Browne Robinson moved to Texas while still a small child, and later to California around the age of seven.

The original town location became known familiarly as North McAlester or North Town although early U. S. Census records simply identified it as McAlester.

* Mac ( or Big Mac ), nickname for the Oklahoma State Penitentiary located in McAlester, Oklahoma

* Perryville ( McAlester, Oklahoma ) on the list of NRHPs in Oklahoma

* J. J. McAlester ( 1842 – 1920 ), U. S. Marshal for Indian Territory ( 1893 – 1897 ), Confederate Army captain, merchant in and founder of McAlester, Oklahoma as well as the developer of the coal mining industry in eastern Oklahoma, one of three members of the first Oklahoma Corporation Commission ( 1907 – 1911 ) and the second Lieutenant Governor of Oklahoma ( 1911 – 1915 ).

Neill was executed by lethal injection at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary in McAlester in November, 2002 while Johnson continues to be incarcerated at the same correctional facility.

The town gets its name from J. J. McAlester, who later became Lieutenant Governor of Oklahoma and was immortalized as a character in the novel True Grit, which was then made into feature films in 1969 and 2010.

Former Oklahoma Governor George Nigh and Oklahoma Supreme Court Chief Justice Steven W. Taylor also hail from McAlester.

On August 22, 1872, J. J. McAlester married Rebecca Burney ( born 1841 in Mississippi-died May 4, 1919, in Oklahoma ).

McAlester was the site of the 2004 trial of Terry Nichols on Oklahoma state charges related to the Oklahoma City bombing ( 1995 ).

Albert was born in McAlester, Oklahoma.

Hearing of the railroad plans to extend through Indian Territory and knowing that rich deposits of coal were in an area north of the town of Perryville, McAlester convinced Reynolds and Hannaford that Bucklucksy would be a more suitable and profitable location for the trading post.

Rebecca was a member of the Chickasaw Nation and this made it possible for McAlester to gain citizenship and the right to own property in both the Choctaw and Chickasaw nations.

Durant named its Carl Albert Park for him, and a monument to Albert resides at his birthplace in McAlester.

The MCF-OPH facility, together with the H Unit of Oklahoma State Penitentiary in McAlester, Oklahoma, was featured in a one hour TV documentary titled " Maximum Security Prisons ", produced by Alan Hall ( Beyond Productions ) for the " On the Inside " series of the Discovery Channel.

Russell Franklin ( Samuel L. Jackson ) at first has no need for her project anymore, but after giving it some thought decides to return with McAlester to Aquatica, a remote former submarine refueling facility that, thanks to Franklin's company was turned into a research facility to study sharks and a cure for Alzheimer's disease, to survey the experiment for himself.

The team manages to remove brain tissue from the largest shark and Dr. McAlester sees for herself that the tissue can reactivate the dead brain cells of an Alzheimer's patient.

The new facility was named Camp Tom Hale, for a McAlester resident and Boy Scout supporter.

* A nickname for the Oklahoma State Penitentiary located in McAlester, Oklahoma, USA

Although no battles were recorded as occurring within the present-day confines of Pushmataha County, the Battle of Perryville occurred just outside modern-day McAlester and the Battle of Middle Boggy Depot took place outside present-day Atoka.

Durant ranks as the second largest city within the Choctaw Nation, following McAlester, and ahead of Poteau.

Settling in western Tobucksy County, some west of a pioneer general store owned by J. J. McAlester, Atwood in 1882 married a young woman named Patsy Ann, of the Choctaw Nation, giving him settlement rights by marriage.