Episode 164: The sinking of the Wilhelm Gustloff

Episode 164: The sinking of the Wilhelm Gustloff

Videos:

• The Last Voyage of the Wilhelm Gustloff

• Sea Hunters: Season 2 – Ep 2 “The Sinking of the Wilhelm Gustloff”

Articles and books:

• Death in the Baltic: The World War II Sinking of the Wilhelm Gustloff by Cathryn Prince
• The Deadliest Disaster at Sea Killed Thousands, Yet Its Story Is Little-Known. Why?
• The Forgotten Maritime Tragedy That Was 6 Times Deadlier Than the Titanic
• The Wilhelm Gustloff Museum
• A Memorial to the Wilhelm Gustloff
• Alexander Marinesko memorial
• I Kill a Nazi Gauleiter:Memoir of a Jewish Assassin

New promo!

I just put together an actual promo for the podcast, so if anyone out there who has a podcast of their own would be willing to put it on their own show I’d be very grateful. Credit for the music in the promo goes to Purple Planet Music.

Disaster Area – Promo

Episode 199: Apollo 1

Episode 199: Apollo 1

Videos:

• Apollo 1 Audio – January 27th, 1967

Articles and books:

• The Astronaut Wives Club, by Lily Koppel
• Apollo 13, by Jim Lovell and Jeffrey Kluger
• Deke, by Deke Slayton and Michael Cassutt
• Chasing the Moon, by Robert Stone and Alan Andres
• A Man on the Moon, by Andrew Chaikin
• Apollo 1: The Tragedy That Put Us On the Moon, by Ryan S. Walters
• Moonport: A History of Apollo Launch Facilities and Operations, by Charles D. Benson and William Faherty
• Chariots for Apollo: The NASA History of Manned Lunar Spacecraft to 1969, by Courtney Brooks, James Grimwood, and Loyd Swenson
• Apollo 1 report
• Apollo 1: The Fire
• Space Safety Magazine: The Apollo 1 Fire
• ‘We have a fire in the cockpit!’ The Apollo 1 disaster 50 years later
• American Institute of Physics: Trial by Fire: The Legacy of Apollo 1

Episode 198: The Christchurch mosque shootings

Episode 198: The Christchurch mosque shootings

Videos:

• Christchurch shootings: gunman live-streamed footage of his rampage to Facebook – BBC News
• Christchurch CCTV shows late father and son making narrow escape from NZ gunman | ITV News

Articles and books:

• The New Zealand Attack Exposed How White Supremacy Has Long Flourished Online
• Mosque attacks timeline: 18 minutes from first call to arrest
• Sentencing remarks in the case of R v. Tarrant
• Christchurch shooting: mosque gunman sentenced to life without parole
• ‘Let’s get this party started’: New Zealand shooting suspect narrated his chilling rampage
• ‘Garry’s getting shot’: This 1990 massacre was New Zealand’s worst before mosque attacks
• With strobe lights and guns bearing neo-Nazi slogans, New Zealand gunman plotted a massacre

Episode 197: Operation Yellow Ribbon

Episode 197: Operation Yellow Ribbon

Videos:

• 9/11: Operation Yellow Ribbon
• Houston couple finds love after flight grounded in Newfoundland on 9/11
• Arrow Air Flight 1285 disaster

Articles and books:

• The Day the World Came to Town: 9/11 in Gander, Newfoundland, by Jim DeFede
• Four Days in September

Episode 196: The 1967 Oak Lawn tornado outbreak

Episode 196: The 1967 Oak Lawn tornado outbreak

Videos:

• Funnels of Destruction (WGN-TV)

Articles and books:

• Oak Lawn Tornado: 50 Years Later Survivors Recall ‘Black Friday’
• Oak Lawn Tornado of 1967 (Images of America)
• GenDisasters.org: Belvidere, Oak Lawn, IL Powerful Tornado Devastation, Apr 1967
• Oak Lawn Public Library collection of 1967 tornado records, photos, and documents

Episode 194: The 1989 San Bernardino train disaster

Episode 194: The 1989 San Bernardino train disaster

Videos:

• Horrifying Runaway Train: San Bernardino train disaster SP 7551 East | Mayday | Wonder
• 1989 Cajon Pass runaway 29 years later
• TS2019 Rail Disasters – Runaway Train (1989 San Bernardino train wreck)

Articles and books:

• 3 Die as Runaway Train Tumbles Onto Homes : Freight Hits 90 M.P.H. Before Leaving Tracks in San Bernardino; Man Pulled Alive From Rubble
• ‘89 Rail, Pipe Disaster Has a Bitter Echo
• Remembering a tragedy: Train derailment 20th anniversary
• One Month After Derailment, Neighbors Fear Physical, Financial Ruin
• NTSB report on the disaster

Episode 195: The San Bernardino massacre

Episode 195: The San Bernardino massacre

Videos:

• Active Shooter: San Bernardino, California (episode 2)
• CBSN: Inside San Bernardino shooters’ home
• Washington Post: Live coverage of the attacks

Articles and books:

• Bringing Calm to Chaos: A critical incident review of the San Bernardino public safety response to the December 2, 2015, terrorist shooting incident at the Inland Regional Center
• Ethics went out the window when media mobbed the San Bernardino shooters’ apartment
• F.B.I. Treating San Bernardino Attack as Terrorism Case
• Authorities identify couple who they believe killed 14 at San Bernardino holiday party
• ‘Where’s Syed?’: How the San Bernardino shooting unfolded

Episode 193: TWA Flight 3

Episode 193: TWA Flight 3

Videos:

• 2nd (Successful) Attempt to Reach Carole Lombard Plane Crash Site Outside Vegas
• Touring a DC-3 with Robert Matzen, author of “Fireball: Carole Lombard and the Mystery of Flight 3”
• CAROLE LOMBARD DEATH (1944) LIBERTY SHIP

Articles and books:

• Fireball: Carole Lombard and the Mystery of Flight 3, by Robert Matzen
• Time Magazine: End of a Mission
• Crash that killed actress Carole Lombard, 21 others near Las Vegas still echoes after 75 years

Episode 192: The Erfurt latrine disaster

Episode 192: The Erfurt latrine disaster

Videos:

• The Erfurt Latrine Disaster – A Meeting From Hell – Extra History

Articles and books:

• Sewage, the trace of our history
• Curio #1: The Erfurter Latrinensturz
• Erfurt latrine fall
• Inside The Erfurt Latrine Disaster Of 1184, When 60 Nobles Drowned In Excrement
• The Deadliest Toilet Accident In History- The Erfurt Latrine Disaster

Episode 191: The 2020 Calabasas helicopter crash

Episode 191: The 2020 Calabasas helicopter crash

Videos:

• New video shows Kobe Bryant’s helicopter before crash
• Basketball Tragedy | Here’s What Really Happened to Kobe Bryant’s Helicopter [New Audio]
• RAW: Scene of helicopter crash that killed nine including NBA star Kobe Bryant
• NBA Players & Teams Pays Tribute to Kobe Bryant | 2019-20 NBA Season
• Vanessa Bryant Details Heartbreaking Way She Learned Of Kobe & Gianna Bryant’s Deaths
• Vanessa Bryant Accepts Hall of Fame Honor on Behalf of Kobe Bryant: ‘I Wish My Husband Was Here’
• Dear Basketball

Articles and books:

• Kobe Bryant helicopter crash: Trial nears on second anniversary of deadly tragedy
• What we know about the Kobe Bryant helicopter crash, one year later
• Kobe and Gianna Bryant Statue Placed at Site of 2020 Helicopter Crash
• Remembering the nine victims in the Kobe Bryant helicopter crash
• Kobe Bryant’s helicopter was like a limousine and had a strong safety record, NBA star’s former pilot says
• The last flight of Kobe Bryant
• NTSB investigation update
• NBA.com: Kobe Bryant
• Kobe Bryant and the Sexual Assault Case That Was Dropped but Not Forgotten

Episode 190: The GMAC massacre

Episode 190: The GMAC massacre

Articles and books:

• Florida Gunman Kills 8 and Wounds 6 in Office
• Police Release Dramatic 911 Tapes from Florida Office Massacre
• Hazy Records Helped Florida Gunman Buy Arms
• GMAC shooting still resonates
• Panicked workers call 911 as gunman fires in office (also surrounding articles)