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A Matter of Degree: The Hartford Circus Fire and Mystery of Little Miss 1565. Willow Brook Press. ISBN 978-1-930-60124-6. O'Nan, Stuart (2008). The Circus Fire: A True Story of an American Tragedy. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group. ISBN 978-0-307-48298-3. Skidgell, Michael (2014). The Hartford Circus Fire: Tragedy Under the Big Top. The History ...
Emmett Leo Kelly was born in Sedan, Kansas on December 9, 1898. His father, Thomas, was a section foreman for the Missouri-Pacific Railroad.While he was still a child, the family moved to Southern Missouri where his father had purchased a farm in Texas County, near the community of Houston, Missouri. [1]
The Circus Fire: A True Story of an American Tragedy is a 2000 non-fiction book by Stewart O'Nan. It is about the deadly Hartford circus fire of 1944. [1] References
On July 6, 1944, in Hartford, Connecticut, during an afternoon performance attended by some 8,000 people, the Big Top tent caught fire. [25] At least 167 people were killed and many hundreds injured. [26] Circus management was found to be negligent and several Ringling executives served sentences in jail.
Hartford circus fire, July 6, 1944 in Connecticut; Niterói circus fire, December 17, 1961 in Brazil; ... The circus fire : a true story. New York: Doubleday.
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The tent of Venus Circus in Bangalore, India caught fire on February 8, 1981. [21] The cause remains unknown, but the fire quickly swept across the tent which then came crashing down onto the crowd of about 4,000. Those who didn't survive were either burned or trampled to death. [22] The disaster claimed 92 lives and injured 300. [23]
Charles Nelson Reilly (January 13, 1931 – May 25, 2007) was an American actor, comedian, director and drama teacher. He performed in the original Broadway casts of Bye Bye Birdie; Hello, Dolly!; and How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, for which he won the Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Musical.