Coat Worn By Will Rogers in Movie is Donated to Museum

CLAREMORE, Okla. (AP) -- A coat worn by Oklahoma native Will Rogers in the 1934 movie "Judge Priest" is being given to the Will Rogers Museum in Claremore.<br/><br/>The long gray coat is being donated

Thursday, July 7th 2005, 1:08 pm

By: News On 6

CLAREMORE, Okla. (AP) -- A coat worn by Oklahoma native Will Rogers in the 1934 movie "Judge Priest" is being given to the Will Rogers Museum in Claremore.

The long gray coat is being donated by former Tulsa resident Gordon Kuntz who collects Rogers memorabilia. It's to be displayed as part of the museum's collection of Rogers movie items that include Koontz's collection of movie posters.

Kuntz now lives in Woodbury, Wisconsin, and says he found the coat on the Internet auction site e-Bay.

Rogers was born in 1879 in Oologah and died in 1935 with Oklahoma pilot Wiley Post in a plane crash in Alaska.