Forrest Carlisle Pogue, Jr., of Crittenden County, graduated from Dycusburg High in 1927, earned an AB from Murray State in 1931, an MA from the University of Kentucky in 1932, and a PhD from Clark University in 1939. He was a war journalist, professor, military biographer, researcher, and pioneer of oral history techniques. He founded and served as president of the Oral History Association, and the library at Murray State bears his name.