
Bonus: Disaster Area road trip!
Jennifer went on a five-day-long pilgrimage to as many disaster sites as she could manage and now she's going to talk about it for two whole hours.
9 Loka 20212h 9min

Episode 181: The Sandy Hook school shooting
On December 14th, 2012, a young man carrying a Bushmaster rifle walked over the shattered glass from the front doors of Sandy Hook Elementary School and into the building. He was already a murderer. I...
2 Loka 20211h 9min

Episode 180: American Airlines Flight 587
September 11th was still fresh in everyone's minds when, two months later, an Airbus 300 crashed in a Queens neighborhood after takeoff from JFK International Airport. Was it terrorism, or something e...
29 Syys 202147min

Episode 179: The 1993 World Trade Center bombing
It has been twenty years this month since the September 11th attacks on the World Trade Center, but they weren't the first time the trade center found itself the target of a deadly terrorist attack.
26 Syys 20211h 26min

Episode 178: The 1990 Plainfield tornado
We are so used to receiving all sorts of warning on our phones - Amber alerts, COVID exposures, weather watches. One weather app on our phone is all it takes to be warned of flood conditions or upcomi...
9 Syys 20211h 5min

Episode 177: American Eagle Flight 4184
Waiting is just a part of flying anywhere, whether it's hanging out waiting to board the plane, twiddling your thumbs while your plane waits for permission to take off, sighing in frustration as the c...
4 Syys 20211h 2min

Episode 176: The Italian hall disaster
After six months of striking against the copper companies of the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, the families of the striking miners -especially their children - looked forward to a union Christmas party...
1 Syys 20211h 37min

Episode 175: The Hotel Roosevelt fire
A month after the death of President John F. Kennedy, plenty of Americans could use whatever pick-me-up they could get. The Gator Bowl in Jacksonville, FL, was just such an event. But after a night of...
11 Elo 20211h 36min



















