As a student at the University of Oklahoma, Carla Wade won an Associated Press Broadcaster’s Award for her radio news coverage of the first anniversary of the Murrah Building bombing, in which her father, Johnny Wade, an engineer with the Federal Highway Administration, was killed. She continued to document the bombing from her family’s point of view in television reports, an article for Ladies Home Journal, and a live report from the execution of Timothy McVeigh. After graduating with honors from OU, Wade worked as a television reporter at KSWO in Lawton, Oklahoma, before moving to Lexington, Kentucky, where she was weekend anchor at the ABC affiliate. She has returned to Oklahoma and is now part of the news team at KOCO Eyewitness News 5.
