William Nathan Oatis was an American journalist who gained international attention when he was charged with espionage by the communist Czechoslovakia in 1951. He was subsequently jailed until 1953.
Oatis in 1953
Marion is a city in and the county seat of Grant County, Indiana, United States, along the Mississinewa River. The population was 28,310 as of the 2020 census. It is named for Francis Marion, a brigadier general from South Carolina in the American Revolutionary War.
Grant County Courthouse
Streetcars in Marion, 1891
VA hospital campus (left) south of Marion's downtown
Thomas Shipp and Abram Smith, lynched in Marion on August 7, 1930