New Orleans Disasters
Firsthand Accounts of Crescent City Tragedy
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Publisher Description
With more than one thousand books on Hurricane Katrina, somehow not one work examines a collection of Crescent City calamity--until now. Here seven tragedies and their fallout are explored through gripping firsthand interviews, planting readers amid the chaos. Revisit the agony of the Luling ferry disaster, the horror of Pan Am Flight 759 slamming into a Kenner neighborhood and the Mother's Day bus crash on 610 that claimed twenty-two lives. Sift for answers in the unsolved fires of the Rault Center and the UpStairs Lounge. Investigate the Continental Grain elevator explosion and experience the terror of the Howard Johnson's sniper. Join author Royd Anderson on this harrowing journey through New Orleans tragedy.
Customer Reviews
Excellent work
I remember these tragedies quite clearly. The most impressionable one for me was the Rault Center because I came home from a day of shopping with my great grandparents and turned on the television to witness those poor ladies falling out of that 15th floor beauty salon window. The most frightening to me was seeing that man hanging out of the Upstairs Lounge window on the front page of the newspaper paper. The Pan Am tragedy happened less than a mile from my dad’s home. I was so worried about him. I remember the streets being blocked off around that section. Mr Anderson did an outstanding job of not only providing us the stories and theories of why these things happened but providing us with an empathetic view of the victims of these horrible events in our beloved city.