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"On the 15th of June, 1904, the General Slocum, a sidewheel passenger steamboat, set sail up the East River in New York..."
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CHAPTERS:
00:00 - Intro
00:42 - Background
03:42 - The Sinking of the General Slocum
08:41 - The Aftermath
MUSIC:
► "Glass Pond" by Public Memory
SOURCES:
► "The General Slocum Disaster of June 15, 1904" by Valerie Wingfield, published by the New York Public Library, June 2011. Link: www.nypl.org/blog/2011/06/13/...
► "Report Of The United States Commission Of Investigation Upon The Disaster To The Steamer General Slocum" published October 1904. Link: www.dco.uscg.mil/Portals/9/DCO Documents/5p/CG-5PC/INV/docs/documents/Slocum.pdf
► "Witness to Tragedy: The Sinking of the General Slocum" by Ted Houghtaling, published by the New York Historical Society, February 2016. Link: www.nyhistory.org/blogs/witne...
► "A Spectacle of Horror - The Burning of the General Slocum" by Gilbert King, published by Smithsonian Magazine, February 2012. Link: www.smithsonianmag.com/histor...
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