Robert Reynolds: 560 books

A United Airlines DC4 airliner crashed soon after attempting to abort a takeoff at LaGuardia Airport the day before Memorial Day in 1947. On the plane included a former lieutenant on his way to wed his fiancee in Cleveland. There was also a young woman destined to visit her parents who had an important...

A United Airlines turboprop commercial airliner crashed in clear weather near Parrottsville, Tennessee on July 9, 1964. Observers noticed a trail of smoke coming from beneath the plane as it flew low over the rural Tennessee mountains. The Viscount 745D smashed directly into a hillside before it exploded...

The Standard Airliner that crashed on approach to Burbank, California on July 11, 1949 was an unscheduled New York to California flight. The Curtiss Wright C-46 crashed after beginning its descent into a cloud bank. A subsequent hearing held by the Civil Aeronautics Board considered pilot error as...

A midair collision occurred near National Airport in Washington, DC on November 1, 1949. A P38 World War II plane and a commercial airliner came together when a Bolivian pilot in the P38 either did not hear air traffic controllers, or failed to respond to their commands. The crash left 53 persons...

A Piedmont Airlines Fairchild-Hiller 227B crashed on its approach to Kanawha Airport in Charlestown, West Virginia on August 10, 1968. In what became Piedmont's final plane crash, 35 people were killed including the flight crew and all but two passengers. The airliner was flying into a dense...

A United Airlines DC-3 plunged into San Francisco Bay on February 9, 1937. For more than a month the cause of the tragedy that killed 11 people remained a mystery. Then an American Airlines DC-3 experienced a problem that aviation experts linked to the DC-3 mystery in the Bay area. This finding was...

A Flying Tiger turboprop flying east missed a runway near Burbank, California on the night of December 15, 1962. The aircraft was carrying four crew members, one passenger and toys it had obtained on a trip to Boston. Visibility was severely impeded by fog. Crashing into a neighborhood of residences...

The crash of a Lockheed Electra L-188C near Tell City, Indiana was the third major disaster involving the Electras to occur within a year's time. The Electra was a propeller plane that possessed the speed of a jet and had considerable power. The Tell City crash was pivotal for after this the...

The Potomac River, near where Virginia, West Virginia and Maryland come together, was where the bodies of two young women, ages 16 and 18, were recovered in mid June 1956. The girls disappeared in early June.. They were last seen getting into a blue Ford while waiting for a bus in Beltsville, Maryland....

Waxey Gordon's beer empire extended throughout upstate New York, into Pennsylvania and to several New Jersey counties. It even reached as far as St. Louis and Chicago in the midwest. Gordon was raised in a tenement on Manhattan's East Side. He grew up thudding and became a pickpocket. He...

Designed by German and Danish architects the Crystal Palace was perhaps the most admired American building of the 19th century. It was the only U.S. edifice to gain the respect of European designers. Built in 1852 and 1853 the Crystal Palace was dedicated by Franklin Pierce, the 14th U.S. President....

Edna May Pettie was born in Syracuse and appeared in various youth productions before going to New York. It was while she was in New York City that she entered the office of Oscar Hammerstein and requested to be in his chorus. He accepted her in this role which eventually led to additional parts that...

Shocking Blue was joined by Tee Set and George Baker Selection as successful acts that producer Jerry Ross brought to the U.S. Ross, a lyricist traveled to Hamburg and Zurich in 1969. He discovered that tracks by the Dutch bands were available. Shocking Blue's Venus became a mega hit in the United...

Carol Doda electrified San Francisco, beginning in the summer of 1964, when she descended from the roof of the Condor Club doing her trademark Swim dance. She also knew the watusi and others so that her topless performances had variety. Doda was the first topless dancer to be publicized widely in...