On the night of March 12, 1928, the St. Francis Dam suffered a catastrophic failure that unleashed billions of gallons of ...

Trace the devastation of the 1928 St. Francis Dam collapse and its deadly flood. Author Geoff Manaugh joins Nathan to understand the 1928 St. Francis Dam collapse, which unleashed a deadly flood that ...

The Hollywood Dam was meant to be celebrated. After the St. Francis Dam disaster, it was hidden. The Hollywood Reservoir Dam was originally envisioned as a civic monument to celebrate Los Angeles' ...

Phillip Cesena transferred to San Franciscquito Canyon in February 1928 to work as a ranch hand, mucking out stalls and exercising ranch animals. Phillip Cesena, 15, showing off his trick riding he ...

Late in the night on March 12, 1928, the St. Francis Dam catastrophically collapsed, unleashing billions of gallons of water that killed more than 400 people across California’s Santa Clara River ...

Mulholland : a man and an aqueduct -- The dam : site selection and design -- The dam : construction, operation, failure -- Disaster unleashed -- Responsibility and reparations -- The politics of ...

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Ninety years ago this week, the worst civil engineering failure in California history claimed more than 450 lives and left a path of staggering destruction. The St. Francis Dam in San Francisquito ...

It was around midnight, 75 years ago tonight, that Southern California suffered one of the worst disasters in the state's history -- second only to the earthquake and fire that devastated San ...