On January 15, 1919 a giant storage tank holding more than two million gallons of molasses collapsed, sending a deadly wave crashing into the streets of Boston’s busy North End. The flood was over in minutes, but it left death and destruction in its wake. Victims and their families demanded justice, initiating a long, and contentious court case that raised q ... Show More
May 2023
United Farm Workers | Birth of a Movement | 1
<p>In the 1940s and ‘50s, farm laborers in California, many of them Mexican and Filipino, faced low wages and brutal working conditions. Their demands for change were often met with harsh tactics from the powerful growers. Soon, a plainspoken but magnetic labor organizer named Ce ... Show More
41m 9s
May 2023
United Farm Workers | The Grape Strike | 2
<p>In 1964, the United States finally ended the controversial Bracero Program, which had flooded American farms with millions of low-paid guest workers from Mexico who competed for jobs with resident laborers. Soon after, the two largest farm worker unions in California united an ... Show More
41m 49s
Sep 2023
Hurricane Katrina | We Were Here | 4
<p>At long last, the government’s rescue effort kicks into high gear and buses arrive to evacuate people from New Orleans. But it’s too late for many residents, who died in their homes waiting to be rescued. Thousands of people’s lives are shattered, and the damage to the city is ... Show More
43m 31s
Oct 2022
Wildfire in Paradise | Containment | 4
<p>By mid-afternoon of November 8, 2018, the Camp Fire has largely moved through Paradise. Families separated by the fire are desperate to find each other and know who survived — and if they’ll be able to return to their homes. The town of 27,000 people has largely been destroyed ... Show More
41m 6s
Aug 2023
Hurricane Katrina | Beyond Critical | 3
<p>Days after Hurricane Katrina floods their city, residents of New Orleans become increasingly desperate, as the government bungles the rescue effort. Using doors and other items to make improvised rafts, people make their way from their flooded homes to the Superdome and the Co ... Show More
42m 41s
Feb 2022
The Coughing Major | From Riches To Rags | 3
<p>Charles and Diana celebrate winning a million. But their lives are about to be broken apart when the police come knocking at their door.</p><p>Listen early and ad free with Wondery+. Join Wondery+ for exclusives, binges, early access, and ad free listening. Available in the Wo ... Show More
41m 42s
Jan 2022
USS Indianapolis: Disaster at Sea | Abandon Ship | 1
<p>In the final weeks of World War II, the Navy cruiser U.S.S. Indianapolis was attacked and sunk by a Japanese submarine in the middle of the Philippine Sea. The nine hundred survivors found themselves stranded in the middle of the open ocean, many without rafts or life vests, w ... Show More
42m 28s
May 2021
The Litvinenko Affair | The Polonium Trail | 3
<p>Police at Scotland Yard realise they’re not only dealing with the murder of one man…London is facing a full scale nuclear incident.</p><p>Listen ad free with Wondery+. Join Wondery+ for exclusives, binges, early access, and ad free listening. Available in the Wondery App. <a h ... Show More
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