SYMHC Classics: General Slocum Disaster
Stuff You Missed in History Class
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🗓️ 24 September 2022
⏱️ 39 minutes
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This 2019 episode covers the burning of the P.S. General Slocum in the East River in New York on June 15, 1904. It had been chartered for a group outing that suddenly became a deadly maritime disaster.
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