Editing Tulsa race massacre (section)

===Newspaper coverage===
The ''[[Tulsa Tribune]]'', owned, published, and edited by [[Richard Lloyd Jones]], and one of two white-owned papers that were published in Tulsa, broke the story in that afternoon's edition with the headline: "Nab Negro for Attacking Girl In an Elevator", describing the alleged incident. According to some witnesses, the same edition of the ''Tribune'' included an editorial warning of a potential lynching of Rowland, titled "To Lynch Negro Tonight".<ref>{{cite book |first=Paul |last=Hendrickson |title=Plagued by Fire: The Dreams and Furies of Frank Lloyd Wright |publisher=Knopf |date=2019 |isbn=978-0-3853-5365-6 |page=253}}"[A] ''second'' article is said to have appeared in the early edition, possibly on the editorial page, which far more blatantly race-baited the citizenry to come to the courthouse for an evening lynching. It was supposedly headlined: TO LYNCH NEGRO TONIGHT. But that alleged article too got ripped out and disposed of."</ref> The paper was known at the time to have a "[[Tabloid journalism|sensationalist]]" style of news writing. Allegedly, all original copies of that issue of the paper have apparently been destroyed, and the relevant page is missing from the [[Microform|microfilm]] copy.<ref name=Editorial>{{cite web |url=https://www.tulsaworld.com/archive/race-riot-tribune-mystery-unsolved/article_81f8ac0b-01bd-56a8-97ba-851961c400be.html |title=1921 Race Riot:Tribune mystery unsolved |date=May 31, 2002 |publisher=Randy Krehbiel, Tulsa World, May 31, 2002 |access-date=February 29, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200229192215/https://www.tulsaworld.com/archive/race-riot-tribune-mystery-unsolved/article_81f8ac0b-01bd-56a8-97ba-851961c400be.html |archive-date=February 29, 2020 |url-status=live }}</ref> The Tulsa Race Riot Commission in 1997 offered a reward for a copy of the editorial, which went unclaimed.<ref name="Editorial" /> A copy of the ''Tulsa Tribune'' of June 1, 1921, was found: on the front page was an article headlined "Nab Negro for attacking girl in an Elevator" [right].<ref name="Tulsa Tribune - the massacre">{{Cite web |url=https://tulsaraceriot.wordpress.com/tag/tulsa-tribune/ |title=Tulsa Tribune |website=The Tulsa Race Massacre |date=April 19, 2016 }}</ref> The editorial page was also found: it did not have an article headlined "To Lynch A Negro Tonight".<ref name="Tulsa Tribune - the massacre" /> Other newspapers of the time like ''[[The Black Dispatch]]'' and the ''[[Tulsa World]]'' did not call attention to any such editorial after the event.<ref name="Editorial" /> So, the exact content of the column—and whether or not it existed at all—remains in dispute.<ref name="Editorial" />{{sfn|Ellsworth|1992|pp=[https://books.google.com/books?id=u9SlbjZHeHgC&pg=PA47 47–48]}}<ref>{{cite book |first=Alfred L. |last=Brophy |chapter=Tulsa (Oklahoma) Riot of 1921 |editor-first1=Walter C. |editor-last1=Rucker |editor-first2=James N. |editor-last2=Upton |title=Encyclopedia of American Race Riots |publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group |date=2007 |isbn=978-0-313-33302-6 |page=654 |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=S-mKwbU0XlEC&pg=PA654 }}</ref>{{sfn|Oklahoma Commission|2001|pp=58–59}} However, Chief of Detectives James Patton attributed the cause of the riots entirely to the newspaper account and stated, "If the facts in the story as told the police had only been printed I do not think there would have been any riot whatsoever."<ref name="Story of Attack on Woman Denied" />