The front page of the Los Angeles Times on March 14, 1928 Los Angeles Times It was three minutes before the stroke of midnight on a windy March 12, 1928, when the St. Francis Dam broke. Many of the ...
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Mulholland : a man and an aqueduct -- The dam : site selection and design -- The dam : construction, operation, failure -- Disaster unleashed -- Responsibility and reparations -- The politics of ...
On March 12, 1928, the St. Francis Dam collapsed without warning. A 180-foot wall of water tore through the valley, killing over 400 people — many while they slept. Few remember it. Even fewer were ...
Nathan learns the heroic efforts of Officers Edwards and Baker during the St. Francis Dam Disaster. Lost LA host Nathan Masters joins writer Geoff Manaugh and CSU Professor José Alamillo to explore ...
"This publication is the Southern California quarterly, LXXVII, Nos. 1-2 (Spring/Summer 1995) and the Ventura County Historical Society Quarterly, 40, Nos. 3-4 (Spring/Summer 1995)"--T.p. verso. siris ...
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