Episode 236: The Uvalde school shooting - Part One
In the first in this five-part series, we look at the town of Uvalde, and the first moments before a normal school day goes from calm to terrifying. Videos: Frontline: Inside the Uvalde Response Fr...
20 Touko 202444min
Episode 235: The Eschede train disaster
A year ago this week, I covered the Amagasaki train derailment in 2005 in Japan. Why not cover a second one seven years earlier near a small town in Germany? Videos: Seconds from Disaster: The Esche...
1 Touko 20241h 22min
Episode 234: The 1906 San Francisco earthquake - Part Three
It's early in the morning on a Tuesday when you're awakened by the shaking of your bed, of your entire home. You think for a moment it's the end of the world. You and your family make it out of your h...
14 Huhti 20241h 1min
Episode 233: The 1906 San Francisco earthquake - Part Two
It's early in the morning on a Tuesday when you're awakened by the shaking of your bed, of your entire home. You think for a moment it's the end of the world. You and your family make it out of your h...
7 Huhti 20241h 1min
Episode 232: The 1906 San Francisco earthquake - Part One
It's early in the morning on a Tuesday when you're awakened by the shaking of your bed, of your entire home. You think for a moment it's the end of the world. You and your family make it out of your h...
31 Maalis 202447min
Episode 231: The Peshtigo fire
The deadliest fire in American history happened not in Chicago, but in a small Wisconsin town to the north of Chicago on the exact same day - October 8th, 1871. Videos: Watch now: The story of the t...
6 Maalis 20241h 14min
Episode 230: The sinking of the USS Thresher
On April 9th, 1963, the nuclear-powered submarine USS Thresher departed Portsmouth Naval Shipyard for depth tests in the Atlantic. It would never return. Videos: Second Saturday: The Loss of the USS...
28 Helmi 20241h 32min
Episode 229: The Collinwood school fire
The deadliest school fire in American history took place on - of all days - Ash Wednesday, March 8th, 1908, in the Cleveland suburb of Collinwood just after first period ended. Within a half hour, 172...
31 Tammi 20241h 46min
