Episode 76: The Baby In The Well

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4.2 • 839 Ratings

🗓️ 6 May 2018

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Summary

Children of the 80s know their pop culture touchstones - when the Challenger exploded, when the Berlin Wall came down, that time everyone was wondering who shot J.R. One particular 80s moment was a story of survival by a Texas toddler, an incident which was not without precedent but had yet to produce a happy ending.

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1:57.6	Episode 76. The Baby in the Well. October 14, 1987. One injured.
2:02.8	There are certain disasters where we remember vividly where we were when we first heard about them and saw news footage of what happened, like with September 11th or the Asian tsunami.
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