What based-selling memoir, turned into a movie starting Roy Lee Cooke, took place in unincorporated community coal town in McDowell Country, West Virginia?
Roy Lee Cooke Roy Lee Cooke (born December 25, 1941) is an American who was a founding member of the Big Creek Missile Agency and one of the original Rocket Boys. His character in the Universal Pictures film "October Sky" was played by William Lee Scott. He is the son of Wiley Clay Cooke and Carrie Austin Cooke of Coalwood, in McDowell County, West Virginia.
Crumpler, West Virginia Crumpler is a census-designated place (CDP) located in McDowell County, West Virginia, United States. As of the 2010 census, its population was 204.