June 2, 2020

I Don't Know Why, I Had to Look: The Arkansas B-47 Crash

I Don't Know Why, I Had to Look: The Arkansas B-47 Crash

This week, we have a delightful guest speaker, Melanie does math, Marked Safe is a hostile work environment, we make Melanie's aunts join our Patreon to find out who's the favorite aunt, Melanie invents morbid optimism, a plane crashes into a residential area, a dictator throws a tantrum about Disneyland, and we learn a lot about g forces.

SHOW NOTES

Content warnings:
Explosions, plane crash, school bomb drills, dead body, wartime threat of child loss, Cold War, death in a fire, loss of home

Links:
B-47 Bomber Crash of 1960
B-47 Stratojet crash
Boeing B-47 Stratojet
Casey Munck, "Jimmye Lee Holeman: A Special Patient Fell from Sky into Her Care," Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, April 18, 2003.
Celebrating 200 years: 1960
Cold War Roadshow
In The Arms Of God: The Tom Smoak Story
Little Rock, AR Bomber Explodes Over City, Mar 1960
Little Rock Look Back: B47 Bomber explodes over Little Rock
The B-47’s Deadly Dominance