My boys and girls are in there : the 1937 New London school explosion / Ron Rozelle.

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Rozelle, Ron, 1952-

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computer

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9781603447805
1603447806

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: My boys and girls are in there.DDC classification:

372.9764/185 23

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LD7501.N4662

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Contents:

Prologue -- "My boys and girls" -- Like somebody had lifted the lid off a kettle -- Photographs -- The long silence -- Speaking their names -- Epilogue -- Author's notes and acknowledgments -- Their names.

Summary: On March 18, 1937, a spark ignited a vast pool of natural gas that had collected beneath the school building in New London, a tiny community in East Texas. The resulting explosion leveled the four-year-old structure and resulted in a death toll of more than three hundred-most of the children. To this day, it is the worst school disaster in the history of the United States. The tragedy and its aftermath were the first big stories covered by Walter Cronkite, then a young wire service reporter stationed in Dallas. He would later say that no war story he ever covered--during World War II or Vietnam--was as heart-wrenching.

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On March 18, 1937, a spark ignited a vast pool of natural gas that had collected beneath the school building in New London, a tiny community in East Texas. The resulting explosion leveled the four-year-old structure and resulted in a death toll of more than three hundred-most of the children. To this day, it is the worst school disaster in the history of the United States. The tragedy and its aftermath were the first big stories covered by Walter Cronkite, then a young wire service reporter stationed in Dallas. He would later say that no war story he ever covered--during World War II or Vietnam--was as heart-wrenching.

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