Episode 81: The People Hiding in the Truck

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Videos:

• Victoria para chino, a short film about the tragedy

Articles and books:

• Dying to Cross: The Worst Immigrant Tragedy in American History, by Jorge Ramos
• Trump administration picks Tornillo as tent city site for immigrant children
• Trucker Convicted in Deaths of 19 Illegal Immigrants
• San Antonio driver says he didn’t know immigrants were in truck
• Convictions In Human Smuggling Deaths
• 4 Dead in Texas Crash
• Smuggler gets 14 years in Victoria case

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Episode 80: The Graniteville train crash

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Videos and music:

• “Graniteville,” by Doug Burr
• Graniteville Chlorine Disaster – Short trailer
• Graniteville voices

Articles and books:

• NTSB report on the Graniteville train crash
• After a Town Suffered a Terrible Tragedy, These Entrepreneurs Brought It Back to Life
• Graniteville man’s death blamed on chlorine train wreck
• Federal Rail Adminstration report on the Graniteville train crash

Episode 79: The Austin tower shooting

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Videos:

• The documentary “Tower” is available on Netflix and other platforms, and I highly recommend watching it if you haven’t already.
• Charles Whitman documentary
• A Crime to Remember: The 28th Story

Articles and books:

• Did Stephen Paddock follow UT Tower shooter Charles Whitman’s playbook in Las Vegas?
• History.com: An ex-Marine goes on a killing spree at the University of Texas
• The Sniper In The Tower, by Gary Lavergne
• The Reckoning
• 364 – Statement by the President on the Need for Firearms Control Legislation
• 96 Minutes

Episode 78: The Moorgate Tube crash

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Videos:

• A Discovery Channel documentary on the crash
• MOORGATE ANNIVERSARY FEBRUARY 28 2015

Articles and books:

• End of the Line: The Moorgate Tube crash, by Richard Jones
• Report on the Accident at Moorgate Station
• 1975: Horror underground
• Moorgate…the unresolved tragedy

Episode 77: The Pioneer Hotel fire

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Videos:

• 60 Minutes report on the fire in 2013

Articles and books:

• Free after 42 years?
• Tucson, AZ Pioneer International Hotel Fire, Dec 1970
• The Worst Day in Tucson History
• Pioneer Hotel Fire, by Johanna Eubank
• 1970: Pioneer Hotel fire
• Tuscon Fire Department: Tucson’s Most Tragic Fire 
• Pioneer Hotel – The Fire That Destroyed Downtown Tucson

Episode 76: The Baby in the Well

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Videos:

• Live news footage of the removal of Baby Jessica from the well on October 16, 1987
• Everybody’s Baby: The Jessica McClure Story  The TV movie based on the story. I
• The Baby Jessica story

Articles and books:

• The Kathy Fiscus Story: Turning Point in TV News
• San Marino, CA Child Falls Into Abandoned Well, Apr 1949
• The American Magazine: Too Deep
• Baby Jessica 30 Years Later: ‘My Life Is a Miracle’
• Jessica Makes It to Safety–After 58 1/2 Hours
• DEATH ON THE CNN CURVE

Episode 75: Care Teams

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Articles and books:

• About the Delta Care Team
• Training warns crash teams of likely pitfalls
• Three Passengers Fall Off Carnival Cruise Ships In Three Weeks
• CLIA: Guest Care Practices
• Handbook for Human Services Response: A Practical Approach for Helping People, by Carolyn Coarsey