Episode 171: The battle of Blair Mountain
In the early 1900s, the coal fields of West Virginia were a tough place to work. With the mine owners keeping a tight grip on their wallets, miners got cheated out of their rightful earnings left, rig...
24 Kesä 20211h 44min
Episode 170: United Airlines Flight 93
Imagine you get up at the crack of dawn for a work trip, drag your tired body to the airport, and get onto a plane that sits in a line to take off for another forty minutes. You may think things can't...
17 Kesä 20211h 35min
Episode 169: The Wilmer bus fire
As Hurricane Rita approached Texas in September of 2005, three million people evacuated the Houston area, among them a busload of thirty-seven residents from the Brighton Gardens of Bellaire assisted ...
2 Kesä 20211h 17min
Episode 168: The Prestonsburg bus crash
It was a clear winter's day, and there was no reason to think the trip to school on bus #27 would be any different than any other day. But as driver John DeRossett steered the bus around the curve aft...
26 Touko 20211h 18min
Episode 167: The attack on Black Wall Street
One hundred years ago this month, the Greenwood district of Tulsa - arguably the most prosperous Black community in America - faced one of the darkest, most shameful days in American history.
21 Touko 20212h 9min
Episode 166: The Lac-Mégantic train disaster
On a warm Friday night in July, 2013, over a hundred people were enjoying the comfortable atmosphere and enjoyable music at the Musi-Cafe, a popular local bar in Lac-Megantic, Quebec. Then at quarter ...
13 Touko 20211h 40min
Episode 165: The Kaprun funicular disaster
It was the start of the winter ski season on November 11th, 2000, and the skiers and snowboarders heading up to the Kitzsteinhorn glacier on the funicular train were excited for the day to begin. But ...
5 Touko 20211h 8min
Episode 164: The sinking of the Wilhelm Gustloff
The deadliest shipwreck of all time took place on a cold January night in 1945, when a recommissioned German cruise ship carrying thousands of East Prussian refugees to safety in the west didn't notic...
28 Huhti 20211h 41min
