Upcoming
Jean Harper sends out a heads up to an upcoming release of an independent documentary film on the explosion of the Richmond downtown district:
The documentary film 1:47 tells the story of one such community – Richmond, Indiana – that would lose that calm and innocence in a single fateful day: Saturday, April 6, 1968. On that day, at 1:47 p.m., a huge double explosion rocked the downtown, leaving forty-one people dead, and hundreds more injured. The documentary film 1:47 tells the story of the explosion in Richmond – how it came to happen and how the city’s ordinary – and extraordinary – residents responded to this disaster.
Check the website here for the release details.
From the sound of it, this will be a nice project to keep this story with us. When I first came to Richmond, I heard about the explosion and dug up the book: Death in a sunny street by Esther Kellner. This work was released soon after the explosion and is long out of print.
UPDATE: Doug Masson pointed out in the comments that Morrison-Reeves Library has this book online as part of their digitized collection, available here. Thanks, Doug.
March 8th, 2007 21:09
I’ts out of print, but fortunately, you can actually get the full text of Death in a Sunny Street here:
http://gates.mrl.lib.in.us:8080/cdm4/document.php?CISOROOT=/fulltext&CISOPTR=1981&REC=1
(Not sure if that long URL will mess things up.)
March 8th, 2007 21:27
[...] Kemplog has a post about an upcoming documentary film 1:47 on the subject of the explosion in downtown Richmond at [...]
March 10th, 2007 11:56
[...] And thanks to Thomas Kemp for his post… LINK [...]
March 15th, 2007 14:43
Thanks for posting on this: I’d not heard of the movie, but am anxious to see it, having “been there, done that”. For my tale see:
http://www.haxton.org/weblog/Home/19680406.html
Be well,
Dave H.
May 17th, 2007 07:47
[...] her book, “Death in a Sunny Street” which is, unfortunately, out of print. (Thanks to E. Thomas Kemp at Kemplog for posting on this new film. One of his commenters, Doug, points to this link at Richmond’s [...]
July 8th, 2008 19:37
I am looking forward to the film, my mom however a survivor of the explosion is still trying to find a copy of the book. Does anyone know where I could find one for her ?