The Eruption of Mt St HelensHarry Truman David Johnston ORIGINAL MOVIE 39 Years later

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@msmoe8687 2 ай бұрын

I got to meet him and roll across the lake in a canoe when I was a teenager, a couple of years before it erupted. I will never forget it.

@oddsman01 2 ай бұрын

Harry said he hates to drink, but people drive him to it 😂

@johnsmith7676 Күн бұрын

I know the feeling, all too well.

@chadsmith66 2 ай бұрын

R.I.P. Harry Truman and David Johnston and all the others who lost their lives in this

@dpcnreactions7062 2 ай бұрын

David Johnston talking about what could happen and then it does happen and it kills him and Harry. Gives me shivers.

@sneezabonk Ай бұрын

I'd say the worst was one of the other geologist monitoring the eruption. (He literally said "It just got Dave and now it's about to get us". (Radio went silent).

@KathrynsWorldWildfireTracking 27 күн бұрын

"Vancouver, this is it." I wonder if David might have been referring to his own death.

@raeraewells7053 2 ай бұрын

My heart broke for Harry’s sister. 😢

@fluttergirl75 2 ай бұрын

I remember the KOMO News guy who took camera footage under the ash even though he thought he wasn't going to make it. Mr. Truman was as grumpy as I remember! A man of his word.

@tenbroeck1958 2 ай бұрын

Kind of guy who you think doesn't like you at first, but over time you probably grew love the stubborn old man. I feel that way just watching film of him! RIP sir

@ricknicosia2015 2 ай бұрын

RIP Harry......a real patriot I would have been glad to know.

@gerstmanndavid 2 ай бұрын

I was 7 years old when Mount St. Helens erupted. The very day that the mountain erupted, our family was moving from Snohomish Washington to Springfield Oregon. I remember the ash cloud passing over us and blocking out the sun. I remember my mom telling our dad to stop the car so she could go collect some of the ash from the ground. My dad told me years later that he had met Mr. Truman.

@JCrashB 2 ай бұрын

Props to the many camera men who captured the amazing footage for our viewing pleasure.

@williamrainville5794 2 ай бұрын

I remember seeing him on the news a week or two before the eruption. 44 years ago. we live in a completely different world now. nothing is the same as it was then.

@jeanmichaels8686 2 ай бұрын

This is the best filming of an eruption. My God, it was devastating

@marlisamorgan2 2 ай бұрын

That's actually not filmed. That was someone who was there that day taking pictures of the mountain. He had just got done and was leaving when it started to erupt so he grabbed his camera and snapped several pics of it. He did a great job capturing it, that's for sure. They also did a great job splicing it together to look like a film. What can you say...technology 🤔.

@binkybabe6452 2 ай бұрын

We had a fine dusting of ash in Northern Illinois from this event.

@Yooyangs 2 ай бұрын

I remember seeing him on the news. I was 15 at the time. I liked him then. Tough bugger. Yeah the mountain took him but he went on his own terms. I remember we heard the mountain firing off in Anacortes

@LHLH78 2 ай бұрын

Incredible footage. Priceless interview reels shown with Dr. David Johnston. Thank you for sharing.

@alcastillo4901 2 ай бұрын

Remembered this when that happened. Was a kid back in the 80s. Seeing it all over the news. Pretty wild to see. Everything in its path gone in seconds.. it's all growing back now. Just a different landscape.

@DonaldRichards-mr3lz 2 ай бұрын

I lived at 2373 Cottage Way Pine Grove Area. May 18 1980 today it's Cottage Avenue saw eruption on KRCR 7R channel 7. I was 18 years old .

@jr7392 2 ай бұрын

I was a kid and we were living near Anacortes when the mountain popped. I remember goofing around in my room then all of a sudden the whole house shook with one big BANG. Woke the old man up who thought I was jumping off the bed or something, lol. I feel bad for Harry's kitties. :(

@rflatley8029 2 ай бұрын

Great little movie, I stood in the doorway in Portland, Or as the house shook. Of course we were all following the story of the man on the mountain. Day turned to night as the ash came down for days. I wore a mask and goggles to stay safe as I road my bicycle to the Portland Museum Art School. I will never forget that day and the days that followed.

@shaynejenkins446 Ай бұрын

It was an earthquake that triggered the eruption. It was bound to have some kind of event. But that earthquake caused a massive landslide and the whole side of the mountain blew out. I was to far south and only 5 to remember the shaking. But I do remember the ash.

@zanpsimer7685 2 ай бұрын

Shoveling ash like snow in Yakima WA. Visited Mt St Helens in 2012 and the Mountain was coming back nicely.

@moulder44 5 ай бұрын

That Truman fella was quite the character.

@aaron___6014 2 ай бұрын

And a know it all.

@pl5624 2 ай бұрын

@@aaron___6014yup...just because he hadnt seen an eruption in the 50 years of being there he didn't believe it was ever going to.or he didn't think it was going to be as big as it was.in reality the side blew off and targeted him directly.i think mother nature saw a nut nearby and said don't mess with or doubt me.

@MarkMay-cr6bv 2 ай бұрын

@@aaron___6014 And an extremely crotchety, Ebenezer Scrooge-type fellow (talking from years of personal experience).

@thomthumbe 2 ай бұрын

I remember back then, some months after the volcano went off, we could go to McDonalds and if you bought a Big Mac, fries and a drink, plus $1.00 more, you got a small plastic container (about 1 cup in size) containing volcanic ash. I still have mine. For all I know they dug a pit to build a new McDonalds restaurant somewhere and used the dirt to fill these cups. But, it does look exactly like the small bottle of ash I grabbed from Clark Air Base when that volcano blew its lid many years ago. I was evacuated after that one.

@stevendaniel8126 2 ай бұрын

Harry loved his life.... Nothing wrong with that. 😊

@paulkavanagh8240 2 ай бұрын

Never doubt a volcanologist!

@coreym162 2 ай бұрын

It's not about "Gotchas". He slowly adjusted his tune if you even cared to listen to his interviews in depth. He went from uninformed. Just like the scientists were, he grew frustrated and saw the mountain he loved change with the bulge and many quakes. Then, he lost his wife and I heard another account that he lost his daughter in a car accident when she was 39. He buried her up there too. He also had 2 divorces too. The man was old and tired and decided to go with the one thing that was his in the world that he fought so hard to build on top of his love for the mountain and said he wouldn't live a week after seeing the devastation and losing his land and life. Sounded like he was on heart medication too. Lay off him with your "gotchas" and "hind sight". You don't know about this situation as much as you think.

@paulkavanagh8240 2 ай бұрын

@@coreym162 What makes you think I was referring to Harry Truman, Ears?

@Fragmented1436 2 ай бұрын

I see that mountain all of the time. It's just crazy how nature took the blow and is reconstructing itself. In many places you can still see the damage though.

@cloverfield911 2 ай бұрын

I feel sorry for the poor cats.

@user-jt6qd8ri4l 2 ай бұрын

Who gives a shit about a cat

@PheNom1466 2 ай бұрын

@@user-jt6qd8ri4l😂

@PheNom1466 2 ай бұрын

What about the cats at your local shelter? Go rescue them.

@cloverfield911 2 ай бұрын

@@PheNom1466 I've got 10!! LOL!

@PheNom1466 2 ай бұрын

@@cloverfield911 🤣

@rebeccahanson9864 2 ай бұрын

I remember the day this happened. It was all over the news.

@PheNom1466 2 ай бұрын

Truman never left. Ain't that the truth. R.I.P. Harry!

@aaron___6014 2 ай бұрын

The pyroclastic flows traveled at 450mph and Truman thought he could outrun the eruption in his boat.

@coreym162 2 ай бұрын

You realize he changed his mind quite a bit actually leading up to the event. He didn't know anymore than the experts at those times. Then, he changed his tune to staying and realizing the risk and didn't care and stayed. I wish they showed his quotes in chronological because, it's easy to rearrange his interviews to make him sound dumb til the end but, that's what happens when people that don't like you have control of your words when you can't even defend yourself because, you're dead. Disgusting.

@commonsenseprevails6663 2 ай бұрын

@coreym162 I don't think he was dumb or stubborn at all. My guessing is he'd lived there for most of his life and he was at peace to die and remain there for eternity if so be it. He went out with his head held high and I'd like think it was instant and any suffering only last a mere second or two. RIP HT, a legend in his own right.

@Stereostupid Ай бұрын

@coreym162 Many people know the true story of Harry R .Truman

@shaynejenkins446 Ай бұрын

@@coreym162 Its common knowledge he didn't care anymore. He wasn't gonna leave no matter what was gonna happen to him.

@KathrynsWorldWildfireTracking 27 күн бұрын

False. Find the Lars Larson interview. He's scared, subdued, wanting to leave. Giving away his cats. He's a broken man, a widower, and alcoholic. The real him. He tells Lars he'll be remembered as a coward if he goes now, but wants to. That's a rare interview with him sober! The press was filming him while he was roaring drunk. All of the prior eruptions in the 1800s were small. In that context - when he made a haughty proclamation, it was mere comedy. Free advertisement for his hotel. When things looked serious, the damned press continued to play earlier comments. They exploited a broken, alcoholic widower still in mourning - reluctant to leave the last thing he and his soulmate built. Other than Lars, they should feel like **** the rest of their lives. If they gave him an out - "we were just joshing, fun and games" smart to leave now...they could have saved him.

@Macarena22279 2 ай бұрын

First there is a mountain,then there is no mountain,then there is...

@TheStabbyMedic 2 ай бұрын

“Harry says he hates to drink, but people drive him to it..”

@daronledonledon3036 2 ай бұрын

I’m 59 years old and I remember as a child we used to go there pretty regularly I remember jumping into the icy cold lake, just wanted to feel how cold it really was ,knowing that the water from the lake came directly from the mountain I decided I wanted to jump in an my family laughed at me and I tell you as fast as I jumped in I was out just as fast that was the coldest I’ve ever felt

@user-or6th8fy9l 2 ай бұрын

Good ol Harry.🔥

@Phillip-up3ip 2 ай бұрын

12 years old and watched it in science class that morning 😢

@VPOL2112 2 ай бұрын

Hmmm we didn't have school on Sundays

@jam6930 2 ай бұрын

God bless Harry. Guys in his 80s and was clear he was willing to take risk by staying. Several people stayed in Centralia PA after being asked to leave, and they didnt all fall into the earth.

@jarmoluotonen Ай бұрын

Exactly - he was 83 and still had much of his strength. Had he left his home & life of 50 years (also worth to mention his second & most beloved wife was buried on the property) and seen afterwards what became of it, he most likely would have withered away within 1 year - propably even less...

@fastrat37 2 ай бұрын

I have a container of ash from the eruption that fell in Spokane WA.....my Aunt(God rest her soul) brushed it off their cars......I was in NW ND when this happened and I remember it to this day!

@letsgobrandon7297 3 ай бұрын

44 years later and people still talking about him from a couple news clips, imagine if we all knew him all his life.

@aaron___6014 2 ай бұрын

WW1 vet.

@charlesburgoyne-probyn6044 2 ай бұрын

@@aaron___6014ship sinking survivor aswell from that conflict

@Spiritlife01 2 ай бұрын

No thanks.

@letsgobrandon7297 2 ай бұрын

@Itsjustlife33: “no thanks” what?

@charlesmullins3238 2 ай бұрын

I love them ol cogers…grew up around so many I’m used to em and understand why they always seemed like an asshole….you would go if you’d lived through what that man had

@denniscrane9753 2 ай бұрын

You can only imagine his last thoughts!

@Spiritlife01 2 ай бұрын

He looked like the type of person who wouldn't care he had nothing to lose either way.

@ung427 2 ай бұрын

If Harry saw it coming his last thought was probably, "better than dying in a hospital bed and more exciting than dying in my sleep!"

@DouglasRichardson-er4ky Ай бұрын

😮 oh sh!t

@karenfyhr2363 2 ай бұрын

I still remember Harry Truman and how stubborn he was before the massive eruption

@dempseyarmy7524 2 ай бұрын

Stubborn is one word, stupid is another...

@shaynejenkins446 Ай бұрын

@@dempseyarmy7524 He didn't care either way. He had lost a lot already.

@djsdownhill2010 2 ай бұрын

Harry is my new hero!❤🏔️

@scottmiller2421 10 күн бұрын

my aunt lived with her two kids and husband in washington a week before it she had feeling of doom so she strated packing the rv and left 24 hours before she blew they went down and south across texas in their rv and ended up in albany ny at my grandparents 5 days later

@KB-mk9lv 2 ай бұрын

Your compilation is good. Thank you.

@jonathonshell 2 ай бұрын

Harry was a Character "Rip buddy"

@zztop4996 2 ай бұрын

Just stumbled across this looking for vids about con men religious revivalists. Go figure. Hahaha! One guy on YT has a MSH's playlist with 188 videos on it. This should be one of them! Didn't find this when I was searching back when I was watching them all. It may be easier for the search function to locate this vid if you edited the title by adding a space between "Helens" and "Harry" >> (The Eruption of Mt St HelensHarry Truman David Johnston ORIGINAL MOVIE 39 Years later). Thanks for posting!

@joelopresti7087 3 ай бұрын

Excellent video

@eljefe62 2 ай бұрын

The eruption occurred the same day I graduated HS. The summer that followed was extremely hot.

@shaynejenkins446 Ай бұрын

You graduated on a Sunday? 1980 had 2 days over 90 degrees that summer. Justsayin

@zuckfacegobbels4527 2 ай бұрын

The Helicopter flying inside & around the Volcano's puckerhole was Crazy!

@bvillafuerte765 2 ай бұрын

Excellent video.

@jackiedaytona7681 2 ай бұрын

I've always like Harry and how he lived on his own terms. That said, he and some of these others interviewed are a prime example of the dangers of "doing your own research " and deciding you know better than experts. Social media is absolutely filled with the sort of unearned confidence on display here. Luckily Harry didn't have the ability to convince others to stay in harms way due to the lack of up to the second media coverage in 1980.

@anthonywilson4181 2 ай бұрын

I have always preferred to let natural selection take its course, it's nature's way of shaking the fleas off its back, we spend too much time trying to protect stupid people, if we remove warning labels the gene pool will eventually clean itself.

@Heliosphan33 3 ай бұрын

I’m sure Harry was thrilled to see that landslide heading for him.

@letsgobrandon7297 3 ай бұрын

You think? I think he rather would died in his sleep and be buried on his land with others carrying on his land. But he might been happy since everything was going to be taken with him.

@vinetacirule8094 2 ай бұрын

More possible he didn't see it coming at 8.32 am, possibly sleeping and died at sleep

@letsgobrandon7297 2 ай бұрын

@vinetacirule8094: My opinion he was definitely up cause old people wake up early. Idk if that’s with every country but in the US old people go to bed around 9pm and wake up around 5am.

@charlesburgoyne-probyn6044 2 ай бұрын

@@vinetacirule8094the volcano erupting would have woken him up for sure

@JustTuningIn 2 ай бұрын

I'm sure he was sipping on a coke and rum and was working or Chilling when it all happened. He probably stood in shock, dropping his mug... in awww as it all headed his way

@daveminion6209 Ай бұрын

this volcano was really a story of Harry Truman vs God. we know who won. RIP Harry, you lived a long, full life. semper fi.

@ChrisJohnson-hk6es 4 ай бұрын

This is awesome!

@billveek9518 2 ай бұрын

Never put the Lord to a foolish test

@deerslayer9point Ай бұрын

Awesome video!

@OscarVaughn 4 ай бұрын

Then they make the movie about this called st Helen's and the sad part about the movie is the actor that played David Johnston was killed not all to long after the movie came out. So sad

@mel.3687 9 күн бұрын

The original film lasted 92 minutes. So they have removed over half of it

@ammer8566 2 ай бұрын

We got a light dusting in Maine when this happened. It was all over my mother's car.

@radleysmith7528 21 күн бұрын

Harrys sister sure loved her brother💔

@sheilathailand1903 2 ай бұрын

I remember that day, Turning on the TV and wondering why it had no color (ash over everything). Also being pitch black in Yakima at noon.

@nathanduckeorth806 Ай бұрын

So they knew it was gonna go, just not when,i didnt remember that!!

@aaronpeterson835 3 ай бұрын

this is great stuff because its our states history (a huge event) caught on film so that we get to re-live a liitle bit of what we lived through in the 80's when it happened if you where alive when the mountain erupted and something that can not ever be forgoten in our memories especialy if we love stuff like this and because of the types of people who lived and died on the mountain like truman and the scientist and every one else who got to experience such a historical event

@user-by2lz1iq6w 2 ай бұрын

I was just 10 years old living in Kennewick Washington when this happened, sky got dark about 9 or 10.

@williammorris584 Ай бұрын

I forgot how many dead expert amateur geologists there were from this.

@mattk7yeg682 Ай бұрын

It’s funny the geologist kept predicting the ash might reach as far as Eastern Washington. I remember ash coming down for a week or more in San Diego.

@hildeschmid8400 2 ай бұрын

I would like to know if the house of the woman who believed her house was safe was on the north side, and if it was, what she had to say after the eruption.

@coreym162 2 ай бұрын

She was likely financially screwed if her home was up there. People have the right to complain and be concerned about their property they work hard for. It's so easy to judge behind your keyboard behind anonymity. Try working hard for something sometime and then, sing the same tune.

@shaynejenkins446 Ай бұрын

@@coreym162 Your a massive Karen in all your bitchy little comments.

@rebeccahanson9864 2 ай бұрын

His whole livelihood ended up being a fossil that somebody will dig out years from now.

@andyburk4825 2 ай бұрын

That old guy was kinda full of himself. Couple days later you could see the ash high in the atmosphere above the East Coast USA.

@Spiritlife01 2 ай бұрын

Yeah came across as ignorant but he went the way he wanted.

@coreym162 2 ай бұрын

You are just looking at a disorganized chronology without full context or reason he said what he said without considering the media starving for ratings. He had some very sensitive and heart felt interviews. He was more down to Earth than this limited assortment of interviews show him to be. The YMCA, Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts loved him near the end. That tells me all I need to know about him. He might have been a drunk and he was a mild mannered but, he knew what he was doing and would rather die to be with his wife and daughter (allegedly) and the life he built than live long enough to die heart broken and robbed of his great memories in the post-eruption toxic soup of Spirit Lake and die of a heart attack in some old people home. He was 83 and died the best way you can go at that age.

@shaynejenkins446 Ай бұрын

@@coreym162 Getem Karen

@guitarjeff55 Ай бұрын

Day of I flew from las Angeles to SeaTac on this day united airlines I think it was dc9. Half or less on board the pilot gosh the OK for us to fly around each side of the plane that was tipped so we could look straight down onto the slow motion is below of clouds rising I wish that I would’ve had my camera. And there was only a few of us that ventured everybody went to the windows so when the pilot turned, we could look down onto Saint Helens actually irrupt Ing. That was pretty cool. Someday I will never forget.

@artysanmobile 2 ай бұрын

I’d have no trouble at all with Harry Truman.

@macfearsome 2 ай бұрын

I'd hope not, what with him being dead these last 43ish years...

@benjohnson1190 2 ай бұрын

All those people were Trump supporters before they existed. They act just like his brainless goons do. The next "eruption" will be when he causes WWIII. But his idiot supporters don't see that coming either.

@marlisamorgan2 2 ай бұрын

Yeah, what do you mean by that? That's really strange to say 🤔🙄

@michaelmckinney401 2 ай бұрын

Well hed be better than Trump. A dead squirrel would be

@Raydensheraj 2 ай бұрын

@@michaelmckinney401A pile of Skunk poop is better than Trump.

@kennethmorrison7689 2 ай бұрын

The wind carried the ash up to Edmonton & the city had one inch of ash covering everything -- it was really wierd...

@user-wv7ts1wo5b 2 ай бұрын

I lived in lakeside California and the cloud covered and the Ash fell

@chadsmith66 2 ай бұрын

Yea i was 8 i remember watching the news on this

@thomascamara8398 2 ай бұрын

Real charmer.

@robertwinfree3197 2 ай бұрын

I learned from another video that the site of Harry Truman’s lodge is buried 200 feet deep.

@catlifewithkitty 2 ай бұрын

So his cats didn’t make it.

@cloverfield911 2 ай бұрын

@@catlifewithkitty Unfortunately not. I feel really sorry for them especially.

@leroyhildenbrand780 2 ай бұрын

I was there in 1986 at age 13. From what I heard, Harry's lodge was under 800 feet of ash .

@robertwinfree3197 2 ай бұрын

@@leroyhildenbrand780 That close to the mountain I wouldn’t doubt it. I want to go see Mt. St. Helens and the surrounding area but last year’s landslide has delayed my trip. I read the Johnston Ridge Observatory will be closed until at least 2026. I’m in Tennessee and was just finishing first grade when the eruption happened. I don’t remember if we had any ash fall but I do remember a kid bringing in a jar of ash when school resumed in September. I don’t know from where he got the ash.

@leroyhildenbrand780 2 ай бұрын

I'm hoping to be able to go back either sometime this year or next year. I'm also playing on hiking to the top of it

@xisotopex 2 ай бұрын

hopefully the earth is about to move into a new, more geologically active period soon.

@castlebravocrypto1615 2 ай бұрын

Not a dammed one of you criticizing Harry actually listened to a word he said

@coreym162 2 ай бұрын

Thank you! I used to think he was stupid for years until last night. His words follow the inconsistent beaurocracy going back and forth between the USGS and the state. Everyone looks back and thinks it's all an organized scripted event when if you know what I know after watching years of footage that it was anything but. David Johnston was the only one to never change his expert tune but, no one took him as seriously as they should have. Harry changed his tune once the quakes kept waking him up and throwing him off the bed. His wanting to stay put and thinking the mountain wouldn't get him turned into he didn't care and wanted to go with it. He doesn't seem as much of a rebel as history tried to make him out to be which after the event just makes him look foolish as much as he was just tired from the stress from the event and he just wanted to go without living long enough to see the devastation and die of a heart attack anyway. It's a shame how little people get it. No thanks to media spin making him out as this "unwavering legend".

@frankmisaege3520 2 ай бұрын

The buck truly stopped at his desk. Perfect man to take over after FDR passed.

@jameshoyt75 2 ай бұрын

@10:41. I could be mistaken but there's another video entitled "The Mountain Erupts" that shows a guy who almost looks like this being wheeled out on a stretcher

@mikewatt8706 Ай бұрын

i am part of the lake and mountain and they are part of me. no shit.

@kgurlzmom 16 күн бұрын

Does anyone know what happened to the lady that said she wasn't afraid?

@mikerochburns4104 2 ай бұрын

Mountain Dew.

@chun3720 2 ай бұрын

"Than the mountain...Axeplodn" 🥒 *crunchh*

@pl5624 2 ай бұрын

It was reported that truman didnt get out of bed until 9am.so he died in bed.not looking out a window or canoeing on spirit lake like the movie showed.

@gerstmanndavid 2 ай бұрын

Please tell us who was there to witness this and actually survived to report it?

@pl5624 2 ай бұрын

@@gerstmanndavid it was a friend of his from the government that frequently stopped and spent time with him and knew him rather well.do an internet search of truman 9 o'clock....eventually you'll find it.

@boydwalker161 2 ай бұрын

I’m wondering how strong the sound was from the eruption 10 miles away? Since some eruptions cause lightning I’m wondering if the lightning was strong enough to disrupt area communications? Next I’m wondering if when Yellowstone blows the next time if the lightning from the cloud could be strong enough to effect communications? Though when it blows, likely not in our lifetime anyone within 100 miles of it is likely dead.

@larrydiaz4418 2 ай бұрын

I wonder what happened to that lady who said that she was not afraid and she paid taxes I wonder if she was inside her home when the volcano exploded if she was I wonder what her attitude was then people are responsible for their own actions when authorities tell you to get out and stay out there's a reason I do not feel sorry for her I think she had a poor attitude when all they were trying to do was save her life

@anthonylilly6862 2 ай бұрын

Who is the woman who interviewed him there's nothing in the transcript

@mandyluparell8293 2 ай бұрын

I have a jar of ash that fell here in Montana

@theisnoplanet 2 ай бұрын

In italy there is a joke on naples, if the mount goes off we have a less camorra problem, but unfortunally not everybody in naples is a bad ppl.

@Johns_Stained_Sheets 2 ай бұрын

No need to add all the fake Smithsonian clips the actual footage is enough, adding the other cheapens it.

@jamesleyda365 2 ай бұрын

I absolutely agree with you!

@santiagoecheverri5743 2 ай бұрын

Valientes, los geólogos y personal que trabajaba en servicio de la ciencia y la seguridad ciudadana. Tercos e ignorantes, quienes de manera arrogante, desconocían las señales y advertencias.

@cmphighpower 2 ай бұрын

Guy was a fool

@vladimirvladimir3298 2 ай бұрын

Pride, ignorance and hopism is evident in most of the interviews. Human nature is often a sad thing.

@elizabethroberts6215 2 ай бұрын

……Truman was an ornery old critter, & that obstinacy killed him. Johnston was doing his USGS job, but way too close to eruption site. RIP

@coreym162 2 ай бұрын

Watch all of the interviews of his. He started off against authorities and in the end he became more humble and was thanking and waving at them the day before the eruption. The man knew he was a goner and didn't care. He lost his with (15 years his junior) and (allegedly) his daughter too (39 in a car accident). People can come to terms with a situation with time. Oh, no! People like you look back after the dust is settled like you know what really happened. Harry R. Truman knew the mountain would kill him and against his wishes everyone endangered themselves and others to try to save someone who didn't want to be saved. He was no dummy. He was 83 and fought in WW1 in the 100th Aero Squadron, 7th Squad, and trained as an Aeromechanic and he'd lived there for 52 years. Know the whole context before going out judging a man who isn't even here anymore to set his disorganized documentation of his words straight.

@shaynejenkins446 Ай бұрын

@@coreym162 BLAH BLAH BLAH

@catecalvertarriola3986 2 ай бұрын

Old crusty Harry got what he wanted, St. Helen rolling right over him 😂

@bbourrel 2 ай бұрын

I wonder how long Harry lasted after the eruption?

@charlesburgoyne-probyn6044 2 ай бұрын

A few seconds

@Spiritlife01 2 ай бұрын

Long enough to probably admit he was wrong for the first time in his life.

@104thDIVTimberwolf 2 ай бұрын

Unless he saw it coming, I doubt he knew what hit him.

@mwhitelaw8569 2 ай бұрын

After the eruption The whole state knew that fella was gone, and gone quick. That wave was 300 feet high

@oscarkoop2548 3 ай бұрын

Those residents and others were completely selfish, putting law enforcement and their families in danger like that. they had plenty of time to gather things and relocate prior to eruption. Were officials off on the eruption yes, but we have never seen a volcano erupt before so how could experts predict what would happen or the strength. The mayor warn them and warned them and people atill went up there, then they blamed her and took her to court when people died. Ridiculous