 It's the first night of winter on a windy night in Scotland when a loud noise broke the quiet over a small village. What followed was a fiery nightmare caused by the cruel intentions of others.   Videos:   Air Crash Investigations: Pan Am Flight 103  Lockerbie Bombing: Smithsonian special on Paramount+   Articles and videos:    AAIB report on Pan Am Flight 103   Skygods, by Robert Gandt  Colonel Gaddafi 'ordered Lockerbie bombing'  Anger at Lockerbie bomber welcome   Pan Am Jet Crashes in Scotland, Killing 270   Libya Admits Culpability In Crash of Pan Am Plane   Lockerbie and the worst Christmas imaginable   New Charges in Pan Am Flight 103 Bombing   Lockerbie bombing suspect is now in US custody   Pan Am Flight 103 Terrorist Suspect in Custody for 1988 Bombing over Lockerbie, Scotland  Syracuse University Remembrance Week Schedule 2023  

Episode 222: Pan Am Flight 103 - Part One

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A year ago this week, I covered the Amagasaki train derailment in 2005 in Japan. Why not cover a second one seven years earlier near a small town in Germany? Videos:   Seconds from Disaster: The Eschede derailment  TS2018 Rail Disasters - Derailment at High Speed (1998 Eschede train disaster)   What Went Wrong: Countdown to Catastrophe: The Eschede Disaster   Articles and books:    Page about the Eschede train disaster memorial   Germany recalls the Eschede train disaster   The Cost of Comfort: The 1998 Eschede Train Derailment  

Episode 235: The Eschede train disaster

It's early in the morning on a Tuesday when you're awakened by the shaking of your bed, of your entire home. You think for a moment it's the end of the world. You and your family make it out of your home, even though so many others do not. For a moment, you think you are safe. Then, you smell smoke. Videos:   A Trip Down Market Street, San Francisco - April 14th, 1906   Disaster by the Bay: The Great San Francisco Earthquake and Fire of 1906    The Great 1906 San Francisco Earthquake Documentary   Footage of San Francisco's 1906 quake as it occurred   San Francisco after the devastating earthquake in 1906 like you've never seen before in color! [HD]   Articles and books:    The San Francisco Earthquake: A Minute-by-Minute Account of the 1906 Disaster, by Gordon Thomas and Max Morgan-Witts   The Museum of the City of San Francisco: Timeline of the San Francisco Earthquake, April 18 - 23, 1906, along with a timeline of the graft investigation  

Episode 234: The 1906 San Francisco earthquake - Part Three

Episode 233: The 1906 San Francisco earthquake - Part Two

It's early in the morning on a Tuesday when you're awakened by the shaking of your bed, of your entire home. You think for a moment it's the end of the world. You and your family make it out of your home, even though so many others do not. For a moment, you think you are safe. Then, you smell smoke. Videos:   A Trip Down Market Street, San Francisco - April 14th, 1906  Disaster by the Bay: The Great San Francisco Earthquake and Fire of 1906   The Great 1906 San Francisco Earthquake Documentary  Footage of San Francisco's 1906 quake as it occurred  San Francisco after the devastating earthquake in 1906 like you've never seen before in color! [HD]   Articles and books:    The San Francisco Earthquake: A Minute-by-Minute Account of the 1906 Disaster, by Gordon Thomas and Max Morgan-Witts  The Museum of the City of San Francisco: Timeline of the San Francisco Earthquake, April 18 - 23, 1906, along with a timeline of the graft investigation  

Episode 232: The 1906 San Francisco earthquake - Part One

The deadliest fire in American history happened not in Chicago, but in a small Wisconsin town to the north of Chicago on the exact same day - October 8th, 1871. Videos:   Watch now: The story of the tabernacle in the Peshtigo Fire   Lake Michigan shipwreck; sank during 1871 Peshtigo Fire   Articles and books:    Firestorm at Peshtigo, by Denise Gess and William Lotz   The Great Midwest Wildfires of 1871   Wisconsin Shipwrecks: The George L. Newman    

Episode 222: Pan Am Flight 103 - Part One

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