DC's Worst Disaster

The Kevin Sheehan Show

Kevin Sheehan, Blue Wire

Sports, Football

4.8 • 4.6K Ratings

🗓️ 27 January 2022

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

Kevin today with some sports to start but followed by a fascinating interview with Washington Post contributor Kevin Ambrose who has written extensively over the years about the deadliest disaster in Washington DC history. Tomorrow marks the 100-year anniversary of the Knickerbocker Theatre collapse during the city's worst snowstorm ever. 98 died. 133 were injured. It was a night of chaos that brought out two war heroes, one past, one future, to assist in the rescue and recovery. Just an incredible story. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	You don't want it. You don't need it, but you're going to get it anyway. The Kevin Sheehan Show is Kevin.
0:10.6	All right. This is going to be a different show today. I'm going to do some sports here in the first
0:14.1	segment. And then I'm going to have a guest. His name is Kevin Ambrose. Kevin wrote a story today
0:19.4	in the Washington Post about the city's greatest
0:23.1	disaster, which was the Knickerbocker Snowstorm Theater disaster, which happened 100 years ago
0:30.4	tomorrow. Seems like we're doing a lot of looking back this week. If you missed the show
0:36.8	yesterday on the 30-year anniversary of the
0:40.1	Super Bowl 26 win over Buffalo, really enjoyed the conversations with Brad Edwards and then with
0:46.5	Jake, and by the way, with Aaron Schatz from football outsiders. Just go listen to the show yesterday.
0:54.8	I know it was long.
0:55.9	Hopefully it was worth it.
0:56.8	Many of you seemed to enjoy it.
0:58.5	And also on the radio show yesterday, I had Mark Rippin on the show.
1:03.4	I had Jeff Bostic on the show.
1:06.5	And this morning I had Charlie Casserly on the show.
1:10.2	So lots of 30-year memory lane stuff as it relates to the Super Bowl 26 win over Buffalo.
1:18.1	But today we're going to do it a little bit more.
1:20.3	It's just not going to be sports-related.
1:22.8	But I am convinced that many of you will really be fascinated with this story. So that's coming up next
1:31.0	segment, Kevin Ambrose. He's an author. He's a contributor to the Washington Post in the Capitol
1:37.1	Weather Gang. He's a storm chaser, but he's written extensively in the past about the
1:43.4	Knickerbocker theater disaster
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