Halloween’s Deadliest Disaster: The 1963 Coliseum Explosion

On Halloween night 1963, Janie White went to the Holiday on Ice show in Indianapolis. What followed would be the worst disaster in Indiana's history and a night she and many others would never forget.

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• https://www.courier-journal.com/story/news/local/indiana/2013/10/27/surviving-indianapolis-greatest-tragedy-1963-coliseum-explosion/3254947/
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1963_Indiana_State_Fairgrounds_Coliseum_gas_explosion#cite_ref-7
• https://www.indystar.com/story/news/history/retroindy/2014/01/15/coliseum-explosion/4495037/
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_defense#:~:text=In%20the%20United%20States%2C%20the%20various%20civil%20defense%20agencies%20were,the%20Department%20of%20Homeland%20Security
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