Early Life
Born Leon Jerry Guthrie in Olive, Oklahoma, he was the son of the younger brother of Woody Guthrie's father. He grew up around horses and musical instruments before the family moved to California in the mid-1930s, where he took on the nicknames "Jack", "Oklahoma", and "Oke". He competed in rodeo as a bucking-horse rider and in 1937 traveled with Woody to Los Angeles where they landed on the Oke & Woody Show on KFVD radio in Hollywood.
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