Episode 40: The World Series earthquake

Videos:

• ABC coverage of the start of Game Three at the moment the earthquake occurred.


• 1989 San Francisco Earthquake – First Minutes


• The entire Game Three of the World Series which was delayed for ten days following the earthquake.


• San Francisco Shaken: 25 Years Since the Quake (2014)


• San Francisco Quake

The two television movies mentioned in the podcast, “After the Shock” and “Miracle on I-880,” can be found on YouTube and Amazon respectively, although they were not used as sources.

Articles and books:

• Out of the Rubble


• A Loving Father Eases the Recovery of Julio Berumen, the Quake’s Littlest Survivor


• Man Who Lived 90 Hours In Quake Rubble Is Dead


• ‘Miracle’ quake survivor Buck Helm dies


• 1989 SAN FRANCISCO EARTHQUAKE (History.com)


• 1 Dead as 5.1 Quake Jolts Bay Area : Man, 19, Leaps to Death in Panic; Damage Minor


• Sherra Nell Cox


• THE CALIFORNIA QUAKE: GLIMPSES; In a Collapsed Building, Heroism and the Promise of a Cup of Coffee


• THE FREEWAY DEAD: Portraits From Oakland – A special report.; 11 WHOSE LIVES ENDED AS QUAKE CRUSHED I-880

Episode 39: The San Ysidro McDonald’s massacre

Video:

• San Ysidro McDonald’s shooting | Minute by Minute


• MASSACRE at MCDONALD’S – James Huberty | ANATOMY OF MURDER #5: By the way, if you’re into true crime and creepy stories, Rob Dyke’s YouTube channel is a fantastic timesuck.


• McDonald’s Massacre 1984


• 1984 San Diego McDonald’s Massacre: 77 Minutes

Books and articles:

• The Murderpedia page for the killer: Murderpedia collects new stories from multiple sources, usually reputable news media, regarding different murders.

Episode 38: The 1918 Hammond circus train crash

Video:

• The Great Circus Train Wreck of 1918, a song by Artese N Toad


• Memorial reading at Showmen’s Rest during Clown Week.

Articles and books:

• SHOWMEN’S REST: THE DEADLY HAMMOND CIRCUS TRAIN WRECK OF 1918


• Flashback: Circus graveyard: Showmen’s Rest and the Hagenbeck-Wallace tragedy of 1918


• The Great Circus Train Wreck of 1918: Tragedy on the Indiana Lakeshore, by Richard Lytle


• The Great Wallace Brothers Circus Train Disaster

Episode 37: Air Florida Flight 90 and the Washington Metro Train Collision

Video:

• Cockpit voice recording of the crash of Flight 90


• WLS Channel 7 – The 3:00 Movie – “Air Florida Flight 90 Bulletins” (1982)


• Seconds From Disaster: Plane Crash in the Potomac


• The Air Florida Flight 90 crash as performed on Microsoft Flight Simulator (Note: If you’re not already following Allec’s YouTube channel and have an interest in plane crashes, you should. He goes through many of the flights featured on Air Crash Investigation and other crashes as well.)

Articles and books:

• Survivors Remember Flight 90


• 35-years-ago: Air Florida Flight 90 crash & Metro train derailment in Washington, DC


• Afterward


• Fatal Air Florida crash remains a painful memory after 10 years Ice-laden plane crashed into the Potomac


• The 30 year anniversary of the crash of Air Florida Flight 90


• NTSB report on the crash on Air Florida Flight 90

Episode 36: Ethiopian Airlines Flight 961

Video:

• The Air Crash Investigation episode on the crash.


• I Survived …: Franklin Huddle is one of three survival stories in this episode.


• Captain Abate and First Officer Mekuria speak about the crash

Books and articles:

• The Ethiopian Civil Aviation Authority report


• Government Names Ethiopian Airlines Hijackers


• Captain Leul Abate’s 1997 award win for flight safety following the crash


• The Life and Times of Mohamed Amin: Some photos of and by Mohamed Amin.

Episode 35: The Up Stairs Lounge fire

Videos:

• 32 people killed in New Orleans UPSTAIRS LOUNGE: Skylar Fein’s LECTURE +Slide show


• Contemporary news coverage of the fire


• Arson at the Up Stairs Lounge


• A video from 2013 showing the interior of the stairwell as it was at the time. Fire damage can still be seen even forty-four years later.


• Up Stairs Lounge Fire: Ferris LeBlanc


• United We Stand, by Brotherhood of Man: This is the song being played on the piano by David Gary and sung along with by the patrons shortly before the fire started.

Articles and books:

• Let the F*****s Burn, by Johnny Townsend


• The UpStairs Lounge Arson,
  by Clayton Delery-Edwards


• A brief history of the fire as listed on the website for the documentary, Up Stairs Inferno


• A Horrific Arson at Upstairs Lounge Literally Haunts the Gay Community in New Orleans (I include this page only because a few of the graphics on the page, including the layout of the bar halfway down the page and the photo at the top of the page of the crowded bar with Mike Scaraborough in the bottom left corner. The article is in regards to reported ghost sightings and hauntings at the scene.)


• The memorial page for the Up Stairs Lounge on the website for the Jimani, currently occupying the first floor of the building.

Episode 34: Centralia

Video:

• The Town That Was


• The Dollop‘s episode of Centralia (not so much a real source as another podcast you should definitely be listening to)


• Centralia, Pennsylvania by Drone [DJI Phantom 3]

Articles and books:

• State police to enforce ‘No Trespassing’ at Centralia


• As fire burns on, Centralia residents reunite to remember hometown


• Centralia, Pennsylvania: How an underground mine fire turned a thriving community into an eerie ghost town


• State works to extinguish longtime underground mine fire in Plum


• Documentarian takes on the tale of Centralia


• Fire Underground: The Ongoing Tragedy of the Centralia Mine Fire, by David DeKok


• Centralia (Images of America), by Deryl B. Johnson