MoNo Encore: Chicago's SS Eastland Disaster w/ Michael McCarthy

Most Notorious! A True Crime History Podcast

Erik Rivenes

True Crime, History, Education

4.7 • 2.8K Ratings

🗓️ 26 May 2024

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Today we revisit another one of my favorite episodes, the sinking of the Eastland. On July 15th, 1915, a steamship with a checkered past called the SS Eastland docked at a wharf on the Chicago River in downtown Chicago, ready to transport 2500 Western Electric employees and their families across Lake Michigan to a company picnic. Once boarding completed, however, terrible tragedy struck when the ship tilted over and into the river, killing over 800 people -mostly women and children- in a horrific, chaotic scene. My guest is Michael McCarthy, author of the New York Times Bestseller "Ashes Under Water: The SS Eastland and the Shipwreck That Shook America". He offers a fascinating glimpse into the history of the ill-fated SS Eastland and recounts the story of the tragic sinking and its aftermath, including famed attorney Clarence Darrow's involvement in the trial that followed. The author's website: https://ashesunderwater.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to From Beneath the Hollywood Sign.
0:02.3	If you love old movies, Hollywood history, or the golden age of filmmaking,
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0:10.4	from another era and fascinating conversations with writer
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0:37.0	Pirates rank among the most mythologized and romanticized of all historical figures. It can become easy to forget that pirates were real people
0:46.4	that had real world concerns. If you like tales of High Seas Adventure, daring do, and also want to learn more about who Blackbeard supported to be King.
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1:01.0	Hello all, Eric here. So I am enjoying revisiting some of my favorite most
1:08.0	notorious interviews this spring and summer. I have so many favorites for so many different reasons and I knew going into this that I wanted to circle back around to at least one disaster themed interview.
1:21.0	These kinds of stories of course can be extremely difficult to read
1:24.5	about and listen to heartbreaking in the senseless death. They're almost always
1:32.1	about people who find themselves in the most chaotic and
1:35.1	frightening of situations in exactly the wrong place at the wrong time and
1:40.6	they become victims because inevitably it's determined that some greedy
1:49.6	jerk or company was trying to save a couple of bucks and the people who are
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