C.S. Lewis and Aldous Huxley died on the same day as JFK.
A nitpick but Levy was interning at the Federal Bureau of Prisons, which is part of the Justice Department.
I agree Condit had some ethical problems. He was cheating on his wife (and Levy was not the only woman he was cheating with) and he hounded Clinton for adultery, which makes Condit a massive hypocrite. But it’s a big leap from being an adulterer to being a murder suspect.
As for Guandique, he was apparently a suspect in 2001. But he wasn’t officially charged until 2009 and convicted until 2010. (Guandique was in prison all this time on a conviction for a different crime.)
Little Nemo’s post got completely overshadowed by robert_columbia’s post. The tragedy? They both posted what I came in to post! You bastards!
As I recall, summer of 2001 was pretty dead, news-wise. It was the “Summer of the Shark” as per TIME magazine, due to a largely imaginary up-tick in shark-related fatalities, but beyond that the Chandra Levy story was the biggest thing going.
What I came in to mention. I go to Padre Island about once a year, and every time I drive over the new part of the bridge, I think of the cars rusting in the ocean below, their drivers nothing but skeletons in the front seat. shudder
*900+ suicides and murders
Slightly precis-ing Donnerwetter’s post: “Worst mining disaster in German history on Feb. 20th 1946 at Bergkamen. 405 miners lost their lives; however, the tragedy largely forgotten – probably because WW2 had jsut ended 9 minths before / few German media outlets then / people had other htings on their minds / this was an unusually harsh winter.”
And in that time-window: as well as the abovementioned factors, the likely reaction of many people on the Allied side – if they heard of the events concerned – would have been have been to comment, “Serves them right for being German – pity the death-tolls weren’t a hundred times the actual number”; and then to dismiss the matters from their minds. Am not suggesting that such reactions were praiseworthy; it’s just that many at that time, held sentiments of acute hatred and bitterness.
The (Bergen County NJ) Record newspaper had the story of Brown’s death on the front page, and an ad for his New Year Eve’s appearance at the Performing Arts Center on page 2!
They apologized in next day’s edition.
By all measures, the Pestigo Fire was the worst in US history (most people killed, most damage). Chicago overshadowed it because it was a big city and news of Peshtigo didn’t get out until a few days after the fire, by which time Chicago had the headlines.
Not a tragedy (unless you were on the Axis side) but another example of a major news story being overshadowed was the capture of Rome during World War II. Normally, the capture of one of the Axis capitals would have been a huge news story. But Rome was captured just a few hours before the troops began landing in Normandy for the D-Day invasion and that was the lead story.
It was not overshadowed at the time, but today more Americans consider April 15th Tax Day than the day Abraham Lincoln died.
Funnily enough, this in of itself is another example, at least when considering a certain subsection of the populace, because of the person who is NOT mentioned. 
Lyndon Johnson’s death and funeral in January 1973 were completely overshadowed by the announcement and signing of the Paris peace accords for Vietnam the same week.
And this coincidence has me thinking (this is, after all, the “Pointless Stuff” sub-forum): suppose Lewis’s take on life and the world in general, were right: he and Huxley would presumably be going after death, in diametrically-opposite directions. And JFK re the same matter – seemingly a case of “the jury is out / who knows?”.
Pretty sure they recovered the bodies, and may have even got the cars out as well. The water’s not that deep there, unless they landed smack dab in the middle of the main channel, and even that’s not really that deep.
But the Chandra Levy murder was the thing that instantly came to mind when I read the OP.
Two pairs of sports tragedies:
On April 30, 1994, Roland Ratzenberger was killed in qualifying for the San Marino Grand Prix. It was the first time in 8 years that a Formula One driver was killed in a racing accident. The following day, Ayrton Senna crashes and is killed during the race itself.
Ratzenberger was a rookie driving in just his third Grand Prix; Senna was arguably the greatest Formula One driver ever - his death totally overshadowed Ratzenberger’s.
On March 16, 2007, Bangladeshi cricketer Majural Islam Rana died in a motorcycle accident. At just 22 years old, his death was the youngest of any test cricketer in history. Two days later, Pakistan’s coach Bob Woolmer was allegedly murdered in his hotel room at the Cricket World Cup that was taking place in the Caribbean - Manjural had been forgotten.
I’d agree with this. Until the movie Milk came out a few years ago, I think most people had completely forgotten he was killed with Moscone in the murders that inspired the phrase “Twinkie defense”.
Johnny Unitas died on the 1st anniversary of 9/11.
All school shootings are forgotten once a terrorist bomb goes off.
I don’t get exposed to much news other than on her or, like, Facebook. Today I saw tv news out of the corner of my eye and it turns out there’s a hell of a flood happening in the midwest, along the Mississippi River.
Well, in Nov 2001 a commercial jet crashed into a New York City neighborhood in Queens, killing more than 250 people and destroying several homes. It happened after Sept 11, but when it was pretty soon found to be mechanical failure and not terrorism the story just kinda went away. No one really remembers that anymore since it was right on the heels of 9/11.