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On the evening of January 28, 1922, several hundred people fought their way through a record-breaking snowstorm to see a show at the Knickerbocker Theatre. Sadly, the theater's roof crashed to the ground when the film started, killing 98 and injuring 133. This book contains a collection of short stories about people impacted by the roof crash. These are their stories of life and death and what happened in the years that followed the terrible d...

On the evening of January 28, 1922, several hundred people fought their way through the greatest snowstorm in Washington's history to see a show at the Knickerbocker Theater, the city's largest and most modern moving picture theater of the time. Unbeknownst to the theater patrons, the Knickerbocker Theater's flat roof was tremendously burdened by the weight of the snow. During the show's intermission, the snow-covered roof crashed down upon th...

On the evening of January 28, 1922, several hundred people fought their way through the greatest snowstorm in Washington's history to see a show at the Knickerbocker Theater, the city's largest and most modern moving picture theater of the time. Unbeknownst to the theater patrons, the Knickerbocker Theater's flat roof was tremendously burdened by the weight of the snow. During the show's intermission, the snow-covered roof crashed down upon th...