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"Honey, The Town Has Just Blown Away"

"Honey, The Town Has Just Blown Away"

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On May 11, 1953, an F5 tornado destroyed much of downtown Waco, killing 114 people. This episode looks back at the disaster through oral histories in a 1980s documentary recorded by survivors decades later—stories about collapsing buildings, cars buried under rubble—as they still try to make sense of it all.

It’s a reminder that good history isn’t just names and dates but ordinary people describing a day when the worst happened to them through no fault of their own.

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