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Picher, Oklahoma Was POISONED & Left to ROT

1.3K views · May 30, 2026 · Education

Comments · 4

  • @forcedaccount5949 · 1 month ago

    This channel is fascinating!

  • @yoursmiles5202 · 1 month ago

    Area towns used chat to cover residential earthen streets up till paving in early 70s.  Our streetside hedge was so heavily coated with mining dust it was beige not green.  Doctor told my mother she was allergic to "dust".

  • @yoursmiles5202 · 1 month ago

    With mega money abounding health consideration was not to be found.  Today missouri and oklahoma favors polluting companys over streams.  Oklahoma state instrument state it is against the law to pursue companys polluting.

  • @cumulus1234 · 3 months ago

    What about the trajic fall of Georgia, Tennessee, ALabama, Florida, North Carolina, South Carolina, etc.  Great Lake states , Ohio, etc still better than

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