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The second part chronicles the bursting of the dam on may 31 1889 and its release of 14. Mccullough gives a fascinating detailed history of the johnstown flood. Report video issue javascript must be enabled in order to access cspan videos. As weve seen, if ever an event was hard to put into words, the johnstown flood was.
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