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On November 19, 1999, The Arizona Republic released a political cartoon by Steve Benson titled "Texas Bonfire Traditions" that compared the collapse to the Waco siege of 1993 and the 1998 murder of James Byrd Jr. [26] This prompted criticism and negative reactions from the Texas A&M community, and the Republic removed the cartoon. People sent ...
The Fort Worth Star-Telegram’s front page on Nov. 19, 1999, the day after the Texas A&M bonfire collapse, which eventually claimed 12 victims. The collapsed bonfire at Texas A&M in College ...
The Aggie Bonfire was a long-standing annual tradition at Texas A&M University as part of the college rivalry with the ... 1999 collapse Bonfire recovery, November 18 ...
The 1999 Texas football vs Texas A&M game became secondary to the tragedy that stuck when the Aggies' bonfire collapsed, killing more than 10.
Efforts to rekindle the bonfire tradition . The annual Aggie bonfire was discontinued as an official school event after the deadly collapse. The school considered reviving the tradition this year to coincide with the renewal of the Texas-Texas A&M football rivalry on Nov. 30. The rivalry split in 2012 when Texas A&M left the Big 12 Conference ...
Bonfire Recovery, November 19, 1999. At 2:42 a.m. on November 18, 1999, the partially completed Aggie Bonfire, standing 40 feet (12 m) tall and consisting of about 5000 logs, collapsed during construction. Of the 58 students and former students working on the stack, 12 were killed and 27 others were injured.
The Aggie Bonfire leadership was composed of Texas A&M University students who were in charge of the construction of Aggie Bonfire, also known as Bonfire. This large bonfire burned on the Texas A&M University campus annually from 1909 until 1999. Since 2003 a bonfire has been burned unofficially off campus, and is known as Student Bonfire.
The 1999 game at Kyle Field between the 5th-ranked Longhorns and the 17th-ranked Aggies took place just eight days after the annual Aggie Bonfire collapsed during its construction, killing 12 people – 11 current students and one former student – and injuring 27. Texas A&M players helped clear some of the fallen logs.