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Feb 26, 1972: Dam Collapses in West Virginia

Posted on February 25, 2011 by Action for Freedom — Leave a comment

A dam collapses in West Virginia on this day in 1972, flooding a valley and killing 118 people. Another 4,000 people were left homeless. Coal mining was the chief industry in Logan County, West Virginia, in the 1970s. Such mining…

Feb 13, 1982: Serial Killer Strikes in Colorado

Posted on February 13, 2011 by Action for Freedom — Leave a comment

↑ Grab this Headline Animator A 21-year-old woman named Mary accepts a ride from a man in the ski town of Breckenridge, Colorado, and is raped and severely beaten with a claw hammer. The attacker, Tom Luther, was traced through…

Jan 5, 1970: The United Mine Workers Killings

Posted on January 5, 2011 by Action for Freedom — Leave a comment

The bodies of dissident union leader Jock Yablonski, his wife, and daughter are discovered in their Clarksville, Pennsylvania, farmhouse by Yablonski’s son Kenneth. The family had been dead for nearly a week, killed on New Year’s Eve by killers hired by the United Mine…