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The Screening Room / Shipwrecks, Heists & Unsolved Cases

Eastland: The Shipwreck That Shook America

54 minutes · Colour

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In 1915 a passenger ship rolled over while still tied to a Chicago dock, and more than 800 people died. Why is it so little remembered?

Streaming from YouTube, from the producer’s or official distributor’s own account. Watch it there ↗

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