Five-time Academy Award winner Francis Ford Coppola, championship coach Barry Switzer and former U.S. Senator Tom Coburn will be among the presenters at the 2019 Oklahoma Hall of Fame induction ceremony.
As previously reported, this year's Oklahoma Hall of Fame class is Gray Frederickson, of Oklahoma City, who won an Oscar for producing Coppola's "The Godfather: Part II"; James Day, of Pond Creek, an oilman who was chairman of the board, chief executive officer and president of the Noble Corporation; Tricia Everest, of Oklahoma City, a philanthropist and former state assistant attorney general; John Herrington, of Wetumka, an astronaut who was the 143rd person and first Native American to walk in space; John Nickel, of Muskogee, who established Greenleaf Nursery Company Wholesale, now one the nation’s largest wholesale producers of shrubs and trees; J.