
Episode 174: Bhopal
It's late at night, and you're sleeping soundly until you're awakened by a stench that makes your stomach roll. You hack and cough as your eyes burn. You can barely breathe. So you grab your spouse an...
4 Aug 20211h 27min

Episode 173: The Oklahoma City bombing
At 9:02 AM on April 19th, 1995, an explosion rocked the downtown area of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. When people saw the devastated Alfred P. Murrah federal building, many thought at first it was a natur...
28 Jul 20212h 30min

Episode 172: Comair Flight 5191
Being the only survivor of a plane crash is difficult enough. Being the only survivor when you were the one in the cockpit is another level of tragic.
1 Jul 20211h 19min

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 Jun 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 Jun 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 Jun 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 Mai 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 Mai 20212h 9min



















