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The Hammond circus train wreck occurred on June 22, 1918, and was one of the worst train wrecks in U.S. history. Eighty-six people were reported to have died and another 127 were injured when a locomotive engineer fell asleep and ran his troop train into the rear of a circus train near Hammond, Indiana.
The film examines the worst plane crash in Louisiana history, occurring on July 9, 1982, in the city of Kenner. [ 7 ] [ 8 ] At 76 minutes, it is his longest film to date. An edited-for-TV version of the documentary (58 mins.) was aired on Cox 4 in three Louisiana regions: New Orleans , Baton Rouge , and Acadiana .
Copies of Pie Dufour's A La Mode column are available through the historical archives maintained by the New Orleans Times-Picayune newspaper.; An extensive collection of research papers, notes, and publications by Charles L. Dufour is maintained by the Louisiana Research Collection of the Howard-Tilton Memorial Library of Tulane University.
Both the identity mixup [3] and the book's release received worldwide media attention. [4] [5] It was the subject of a two-hour episode of Dateline NBC, a program of The Oprah Winfrey Show, and a segment featured on The Today Show. [3] [6] The book was ranked 1st place for two weeks on the adult non-fiction New York Times Best Seller list in 2008.
Multiple books and documentaries have been created about Head, including a book co-authored by Angelo J. Guglielmo, who worked closely with her during their time together at the Survivor's Network.
Founded in 1973, the Center for Louisiana Studies grew around the University's copies of the Louisiana Colonial Records Collection. Begun in 1967, the Collection attempts to draw together available microfilmed copies of any and all primary source records focused on the discovery, exploration, settlement, and development of the Mississippi Valley between 1682 and 1803.
Willie Francis (January 12, 1929 – May 9, 1947) was an American teenager known for surviving a failed execution by electrocution in the United States. [2] He was a convicted juvenile sentenced to death at age 16 by the state of Louisiana in 1945 for the murder of Andrew Thomas, a pharmacy owner in St. Martinville who had once employed him.