The Great Boston Molasses Flood
How a bizarre industrial disaster reshaped U.S. safety laws forever.
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Show Notes
January 15, 1919. Boston PD receives a call: “Send all available rescue personnel...there's a wave of molasses coming down Commercial Street." The bizarre flood decimated Boston's North End. How did it happen? And why does it still affect us all today?
Special thanks to our guest, Stephen Puleo, author of Dark Tide: The Great Boston Molasses Flood of 1919.
** This episode originally aired Jan 13, 2020.
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