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From: "James/Lee McKenna" <>
Subject: Re: [CIRCUS-FOLK] Circus History
Date: Fri, 12 Aug 2005 18:40:37 -0400
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Thank you very much!
Lee
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From: "Elmer Boggs" <>
To: <>
Sent: Friday, August 12, 2005 1:53 PM
Subject: [CIRCUS-FOLK] Circus History


> Don,
> Thought you would find this interesting.
> "The 1944 Ringling Brothers Barnum & Bailey Circus fire disaster".
> Here you will find pictures, stories and the confession of an Ohio man.
> Elmer
> Jr.
>
> <mailto:>
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> <mailto:>
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> 1944 Hartford Circus Fire Eyewitness Account
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> Pauline Slopek has submitted her account of the 1944 Ringling
> Brothers Barnum & Bailey Circus fire disaster. She was seven years old at
> the time and went to the circus with her familly. Read her eyewitness
> account at http://www.historybuff.com/
> library/circusfire.html<http://www.historybuff.com/library/circusfire.html>;.
> Mrs Slopek also provided an original edition of their local newspaper with
> the coverage of the disaster. One of the articles includes information
> about her family at the circus. Read the front page of this edition at
> http://www.historybuff.com/archives/magnify.cgi?ID=07-14-1944-1-f-te
> hnjpg&thumb=1&link_id=1180<http://www.historybuff.com/archives/magnify.cgi?ID=07-14-1944-1-f-tehnjpg&thumb=1&link_id=1180>;.
> Read the article about her family at
> http://www.historybuff.com/archives/magnify.cgi?ID=07-14-1944-8-f-te
> hnjpg&thumb=1&link_id=1182<http://www.historybuff.com/archives/magnify.cgi?ID=07-14-1944-8-f-tehnjpg&thumb=1&link_id=1182>;.
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