The Falls Field Tragedy!
Author | : Sarah E. Littles |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 30 |
Release | : 1858 |
Genre | : Murder |
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Author | : Sarah E. Littles |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 30 |
Release | : 1858 |
Genre | : Murder |
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Author | : Sarah E. Littles |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 24 |
Release | : 1858 |
Genre | : Murder |
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Author | : Robert M. Gorman |
Publisher | : McFarland |
Total Pages | : 344 |
Release | : 2015-10-27 |
Genre | : Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | : 0786479329 |
When we think of baseball, we think of sunny days and leisurely outings at the ballpark--rarely do thoughts of death come to mind. Yet during the game's history, hundreds of players, coaches and spectators have died while playing or watching the National Pastime. In its second edition, this ground-breaking study provides the known details for 150 years of game-related deaths, identifies contributing factors and discusses resulting changes to game rules, protective equipment, crowd control and stadium structures and grounds. Topics covered include pitched and batted-ball fatalities, weather and field condition accidents, structural failures, fatalities from violent or risky behavior and deaths from natural causes.
Author | : William Deverell |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 208 |
Release | : 2021-03 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9781626400870 |
In Kathy Fiscus: A Tragedy that Transfixed the Nation historian William Deverell tells the heartbreaking story of a young girl trapped in a well--a story that transfixed the nation in what would become the first live, breaking-news TV spectacle in history. Kathy Fiscus tells the story of the first live, breaking-news TV spectacle in American history. At dusk on a spring evening in 1949, a three-year old girl fell down an abandoned well shaft in the backyard of her family's home in Southern California. Across more than two full days of a fevered rescue attempt, the fate of Kathy Fiscus remained unknown. Thousands of concerned Southern Californians rushed to the scene. Jockeys hurried over from the nearby racetracks, offering to be sent down the well after Kathy. 20th Century Fox sent over the studio's klieg lights to illuminate the scene. Rescue workers-ditch diggers, miners, cesspool laborers, World War II veterans-dug and bored holes deep into the aquifer below, hoping to tunnel across to the old well shaft that the little girl had somehow tumbled down. The region, the nation, and the world watched and listened to every moment of the rescue attempt by way of radio, newsreel footage, and wire service reporting. They also watched live television. Because of the well's proximity to the radio towers on nearby Mount Wilson, the rescue attempt because the first breaking-news event to be broadcast live on television. The Kathy Fiscus event invented reality television and proved that real-time television news broadcasting could work and could transfix the public. William Deverell is professor of history and director of the Huntington-USC Institute on California and the West at the University of Southern California. He is the author of numerous studies of the nineteenth- and twentieth-century American West, including Whitewashed Adobe: The Rise of Los Angeles and the Remaking of Its Mexican Past.
Author | : Richard Lalor Sheil |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 90 |
Release | : 1818 |
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Author | : Thomas Maurice |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 40 |
Release | : 1806 |
Genre | : India |
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Total Pages | : 140 |
Release | : 1806 |
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Author | : Lee H. Whittlesey |
Publisher | : Roberts Rinehart |
Total Pages | : 441 |
Release | : 2014-01-07 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 1570984514 |
The chilling tome that launched an entire genre of books about the often gruesome but always tragic ways people have died in our national parks, this updated edition of the classic includes calamities in Yellowstone from the past sixteen years, including the infamous grizzly bear attacks in the summer of 2011 as well as a fatal hot springs accident in 2000. In these accounts, written with sensitivity as cautionary tales about what to do and what not to do in one of our wildest national parks, Whittlesey recounts deaths ranging from tragedy to folly—from being caught in a freak avalanche to the goring of a photographer who just got a little too close to a bison. Armchair travelers and park visitors alike will be fascinated by this important book detailing the dangers awaiting in our first national park.
Author | : Muriel Rukeyser |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2018 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781946684219 |
Written in response to the Hawk's Nest Tunnel disaster of 1931 in Gauley Bridge, West Virginia, The Book of the Dead is an important part of West Virginia's cultural heritage and a powerful account of one of the worst industrial catastrophes in American history. The poems collected here investigate the roots of a tragedy that killed hundreds of workers, most of them African American. They are a rare engagement with the overlap between race and environment in Appalachia. Published for the first time alongside photographs by Nancy Naumburg, who accompanied Rukeyser to Gauley Bridge in 1936, this edition of The Book of the Dead includes an introduction by Catherine Venable Moore, whose writing on the topic has been anthologized in Best American Essays.
Author | : James Anthony Froude |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 592 |
Release | : 1866 |
Genre | : Great Britain |
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