On July 17, 1981, 114 people died and over 200 were injured at the Hyatt Regency Hotel in Kansas City. This would remain the deadliest non-deliberate structural collapse in US history until the events of September 11, 2001. Despite the horrifying tragedy, many people have never heard this story.

Full List of Victims of the Hyatt Regency Walkway Collapse

John Adler

Connie Alcala

Velma Allen

Carol Andrew

Bonnie Bartels

William Bartels

Robert Barton

Juanita Bedene

Robert Benteau

Calvin Berges

Florence Berges

John Bergman Jr.

Pearl Bergman

Julia Boggess

James Bolton

Julia Bolton

Henry Botnen

Louis Bottenberg

Jaqueline Brooks

Florence Burgess

Delores Carmona

Cathy Jean Carver

Theodore Cast

Gerland Coffey

Pamela Coffey

James Cottingham

James Daugherty

Barbara Daugherty

Judith Davis

Christina DePriest

Richard Dekroyff

Calvin Detrick Jr.

Clifton Dial

John Dixon

Lois Duncan

Jeff Durham

Louis Farris

Carol Fiene

Delores Galvin

E.O. Gerster

John Glaser

Laurette Glover

Ray Glover

Richard Goss

Roger Grigsby

Oscar Franklin Grim

Helen Jean Gruening

William Gruening

Joseph Gubar

Virginia Hackett

Paul Hansen

Mary Hazelback

Romelia Henson

Thomas Henson

Stephen Hershman

Doris Hill

Forest Hill

Richard Houltberg

Carl Huntsucker

Sondra Huntsucker

Eugene Jeter

Karen Jeter

Ima Jean Johnson

Robert Jonas

Elizabeth Kolega

Julia Lamar

Mary Lane

William Longmoore

Thomas Mahvi

Clara McClellan

Charlotte McDowell

Betty McLane

William McLane

Betty Miller

David Miller

Vernon Mitchell

Susan Moberg

Sheryl Morgan

Marjorie Morris

NIck Noble

Louise O’Connor

Neal O’Connor

Leona Omer

James Paolozzi

Jerold Rau

Paul Rinehart

John Rodman

Ruby Scanlon

Linda Scurlock

Floyd Sholts

Violet Sholts

Ruth Sigler

William Sigler

Helen Stark

Edmund Stein

Viola Stein

David STover

Kathryn Sullivan

Lucille Taylor

Ann Terry

Mary Torrey

Robert Torrey

John Tvedten

Lynn Vanderhayden

Karyn Walsh

Lawrence Watson

Suzannie Watson

Linda Wharton

Edward Whitney

Joyce Whitney

Ferna Wicker

Kathleen Wilber

James Williams

Paul Winett

Rudolph Zatezalo