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The Johnstown Flood is a 1989 American short documentary film directed by Charles Guggenheim about the Johnstown Flood. [4] David McCullough, author of the 1968 book, The Johnstown Flood, [5] hosted the film. An expanded version of the film aired on the television series American Experience in 1991.
The Johnstown Flood was the worst flood to hit the U.S. in the 19th century, and to date, the worst to strike Pennsylvania. [ 27 ] 1,600 homes were destroyed, $17 million in property damage levied (approx. $550 million in 2022), and 4 square miles (10 km 2 ) of downtown Johnstown were completely destroyed.
The Johnstown Flood (1926) by Irving Cummings The Johnstown Flood ad in The Film Daily, 1926. The Johnstown Flood is a 1926 American silent epic film directed by Irving Cummings, that addresses the Great Flood of 1889 in Johnstown, Pennsylvania. The film stars George O'Brien, Florence Gilbert, and Janet Gaynor. [1]
A modern view of the South Fork Dam. The large gap overlooked by the two wooden terraces pictured is the breach that caused the Johnstown Flood.. The South Fork Dam was an earthenwork dam forming Lake Conemaugh (formerly Western Reservoir, also known as the Old Reservoir and Three Mile Dam, a misnomer), [1] an artificial body of water near South Fork, Pennsylvania, United States.
On May 31, 1889, some 2,200 people in Johnstown, Pennsylvania, perished when the South Fork Dam collapsed, sending 20 million tons of water rushing through the town. In 1790, President George ...
Jun. 1—Rob Koenigsberg stood on a sidewalk, lined with luminarias, near the Johnstown Flood National Memorial visitors center and pointed to three white bags with the names Regina Costlow, Zita ...
The 1889 Johnstown flood was the greatest single-day civilian loss of life in the U.S. until the World Trade Center collapsed amid the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, according to the ...
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