Last Night on the Titanic: The Life Savers

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History Unplugged

Society & Culture, History

4.2 • 3.7K Ratings

🗓️ 18 April 2019

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

Mr. Rogers once said, “When there is a disaster, always look for the helpers; there will always be helpers.

Many died on the night of the Titanic's sinking, but many more would have died if not for the heroic efforts of such helpers as the “unsinkable” Molly Brown and Benjamin Guggenheim, a millionaire who acted with utter calm as he gently assisted women and children to lifeboats, knowing he would die within the hour. Other helpers personally swam infants to lifeboats, using every last breath to help others before they themselves perished.

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1:25.6	Hi everyone, welcome to the last night on the Titanic podcast series, looking at the lives and
1:31.8	the actions of the people who are there in that fateful night. I'm really interested in this
1:36.2	episode because we're going to see a side of the Titanic story that people think they don't know a
1:41.3	lot about, but they may or may not be right in that. I'm joined as always with our Titanic expert,
1:47.0	Veronica Hinky. Veronica, how are you? I'm well-scattered. I've been looking really forward to talking
1:52.0	with you about the helpers who really stood up that night to that last night aboard the Titanic.
1:58.8	Yeah, I mean, this is something that although I don't know a lot about the Titanic, when I'm thinking
2:05.5	of historical analogies of people in absolutely desperate situations, push the brink of death,
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