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Stuff You Missed in History Class

Hartford Circus Fire

Stuff You Missed in History Class

iHeartPodcasts

History, Society & Culture

4.224.1K Ratings

🗓️ 11 March 2015

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

In 1944, one of the most disastrous fires in U.S. history broke out during a Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus performance. Dozens of lives were lost and hundreds of people were injured as the largest big top in the country was consumed by flames.

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Welcome to Stuff You Missed in History Class from HowStuffWorks.com.

0:41.7

Hello and welcome to the podcasters raising the theme of spring and I am Holly Frond.

0:45.7

And today we have another frequent listener request,

0:48.7

which is the Hartford Circus Fire.

0:50.7

We've gotten a lot of requests for it before,

0:53.7

and then every time we talk about a fire,

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people ask for more fires.

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So we've gotten lots of requests for this one.

1:00.7

And there are actually lots of books about the Hartford Circus Fire,

1:04.7

and they don't agree with each other in some pretty fundamental ways.

1:08.7

They draw a really vastly different conclusions about everything from who started the fire,

1:13.7

if anyone deliberately started it, and the identity of the most famous unidentified victim.

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