The front page of the Los Angeles Times on March 14, 1928 Los Angeles Times It was three minutes before the stroke of midnight on a windy March 12, 1928, when the St. Francis Dam broke. Many of the ...
With our free press under threat and federal funding for public media gone, your support matters more than ever. Help keep the LAist newsroom strong, become a monthly member or increase your support ...
Sidetrack Adventures on MSN
3 minutes to midnight - then 12 billion gallons were unleashed
On March 12, 1928, the St. Francis Dam collapsed without warning. A 180-foot wall of water tore through the valley, killing over 400 people — many while they slept. Few remember it. Even fewer were ...
Mulholland : a man and an aqueduct -- The dam : site selection and design -- The dam : construction, operation, failure -- Disaster unleashed -- Responsibility and reparations -- The politics of ...
Nathan learns the heroic efforts of Officers Edwards and Baker during the St. Francis Dam Disaster. Lost LA host Nathan Masters joins writer Geoff Manaugh and CSU Professor José Alamillo to explore ...
"This publication is the Southern California quarterly, LXXVII, Nos. 1-2 (Spring/Summer 1995) and the Ventura County Historical Society Quarterly, 40, Nos. 3-4 (Spring/Summer 1995)"--T.p. verso. siris ...
Ever since the building of the 233-mile Los Angeles Aqueduct, begun in 1905, diversion of water by unscrupulous conglomerates ...
Some results have been hidden because they may be inaccessible to you
Show inaccessible results
Feedback