# General Slocum disaster on the History Channel

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**Created:** [June 16, 2004, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/general-slocum-disaster-on-the-history-channel/250707 "2004-06-16T18:23:44Z")\
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**Author:** ![DeVena](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/dec6dc/32.png) [@DeVena](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DeVena)\
**Post date:** [June 16, 2004, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/general-slocum-disaster-on-the-history-channel/250707/1 "2004-06-16T18:23:44Z")

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And may they not screw this one up.

[Tonight (6/16) on the History Channel](http://www.historychannel.com/global/listings/episode_detail_date.jsp?hp=THC&netwCode=THC&asof=06/16/2004+09:00PM)

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> Drawing on firsthand accounts, including the last known interviews with the longest living Slocum survivors, Catherine Connelly and Adella Wotherspoon

I hope it isn’t one of their _history’s-boring-so-let’s-just-fill-an-hour-with-lurid-suggestions_ shows again.

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**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\
**Post date:** [June 16, 2004, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/general-slocum-disaster-on-the-history-channel/250707/2 "2004-06-16T18:37:45Z")

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No, it’s pretty good, I saw it on PBS last week. It has interviews with the two last survivors (who have since died), and _no re-creations_ (I hate those things). It might have benefited from tighter editing, but all in all, it’s pretty good.

Since they’ere showing it on The History Channel, I’m sure they’ll insert a segment on what 15-year-old Adolph Hitler was doing that day in June 1904 . . .