Well done, KWTX!!!! I remember - growing up in the suburbs of Chicago - the Belvidere and Oak Lawn tornadoes of 4/21/1967, and the coverage we had of the storms. This is one of the best documentaries I have seen, about a tornado disaster, by far!!!!

That's my aunt Alta talking at 22:22. She and my grandmother and my aunt Libby were lucky to survive!

An excellent documentary! The survivor interviews were especially poignant and fascinating. I can't imagine their experience. Very special to hear them speak about an event that happened sixty some years ago. Thank you!

Thank you so much! This is one of the best weather related documentaries I've ever seen. I loved the personal stories by the survivors.

Such a good report. We forget it wasn’t all that long ago we didn’t have the communication systems and weather info that we have now!

Wow!Born & raised in Waco(1968;left in’87).Love our history,especially the tornado.

An amazing, powerful documentary. Inspiring testimonials to make the viewer thank God for survival instict. Amen

My grandmother madin name was Barbara Ann winingham....later a bates....,👍👍👍👍 thanks to all in the Making of this video 👍👍👍👍👍👍 like really thank you

My grandmother showed me where the man was trapped in the basement an lived off drinking the beer ...👍👍👍👍

A special thanks to Brady Taylor & KWTX, for the time spent on making this possible!

On the same day, San Angelo was hit by an F4 tornado at exactly 2:30 pm.

That was downtown Waco!? Wow! It looked like New York City back then.

This was a professional and well put together documentary and memorial to that 1953 Tornado. Better than most these days. Thank you for giving the witnesses and survivors a voice, and remembering those who were lost. Thank you❤.

Really, a tornado can happen anywhere... we had one right down the road in Middletown, DE a few years back, earth quakes too. Anything Anytime Anywhere. Never say never.

All man this is great 👍👍👍👍 stuff my grand mother was in this ....i was born in 80 but i got to out there with her a my grandfather....an even got to go to cups thr little drive-in place where they hand made the brugers an hand cut fries.....

Trains still aren't always safe in a tornado, but running to the locomotive to ride out the storm likely saved his life

I understand after watching the news clip why my grandmother was the way she was.........when it would rain ..now i wish i could just tell her ...am sorry....

After hearing these people tell their stories, the phrase Ignorance is Bliss comes to mind.

What got me was my grandmother showed me the same spot where she ripped her skert up the back an ran out of her high heels to try to get away from..... once she showed me this an told me what she wanted me to know .....she never spoke of it again plum up tell the day she died in 2008...

While it is truly heartwarming to see communties coming together in the face of disaster, it is sad that it seems this is what it takes. 😢❤

I wonder if they got it yet. In April 1953, nobody thought Waco could have a tornado. In May, they changed their minds. Cleveland, and some other places in the Great Lakes states, Waco, Texas, and God knows how many other places, should have been a beacon to the nation and especially the Midwest for better knowledge of the weather and and its surprise attacks, and hopefully people learned something. Every place in Texas from Louisiana to New Mexico, and Mexico to Oklahoma, is vulnerable to the big wind. There have been tornadoes in Alabama, too. A lot of the stormy weather in the Midwest is generated by conflict between the Gulf of Mexico and the Great Lakes because two different kinds of weather play like a hockey game between two different teams. They start hitting each other and the towns and cities suffer in the melee.

A lot of wisdom said in this. Disasters bring out the best in people which is ironically sad.

Thank you for sharing this.

I am also a survivor of this tornado.

I was in awe of all of looters 😮 Shocking

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My grandmother's sister.. Dorothy was married to a man that come in after it was done with.... he come with a Ford tractor an a Dodge dump truck....an become a multi millionaire....his name was C.P.DOWNING... he had a stroke by the time i met him....but heven told me about the big building that fell in the basement....

Hey, I know that Carolyn lady... 😊😊😊

May 11,1916, a grand jury was assembled and quickly returned an indictment against a 17 year old Jesse Washington in the murder of Lucy Fryer, sealing his fate. The actions of the people afterward were horrendous! May 11, 1953 (37 years to the day) an F5 ripped through downtown Waco,Tx and showed little to no mercy! 37 years prior(May 1916) Children were let out of school early just to be a part of, or a witness to the mayhem! If the stories are true about Washington's body being dragged through town, mutilated, etc, then the events of the 1953 tragedy should have been a wake-up call for the citizens of Waco,Tx! The same famous photographer Fred Gildersleeve that was perched high up and photographing the lynching is the exact photographer (37 years later) capturing the aftermath of the tornado! Make it make sense! Nobody wants to have THAT conversation, tho!😮 #TheCoxFamily #newspapers #incitingriots #MYcity

Why the hell would anyone take as fact a legend from a tribe?

Imagine believing that a tornado couldn't hit your town because someone told you they heard that the Native Americans said so 😂 I'm SHOCKED that turned out not to be true

Practice

Good to see a documentary of Waco. Could have done without all the God nonsense but considering the generation and location i'm not surprised. I personally don't think a deity had any hand in survival, partially because i don't believe in God but mostly because it feels like a slap in the face to the dead (but again this is personal. I'm not an atheist. I just don't believe deities work like that and i have a distaste for Christianity). Luck and physics. I can appreciate the history though.

as a man whom God has chosen to keep alive, this is a reminder to get busy doing his work. To me that means serving others and loving others and making sure they are ok.