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Primary Source Adventures: Texas City Disaster

I guess it wasn't my destiny to die that day. All of the people I had been sitting with at the docks were killed.

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› Preparatory Resources
• Introduction
• Texas City Disaster PSA home
• The Explosion 50 Years Later, Texas City Remembers
• Texas City Disaster, April 17, 1947
• Handbook of Texas Online Articles
» Texas City Disaster
» Texas City, Texas

› Learn More!
• See more pictures of the Texas City Disaster from the Moore Memorial Public Library.

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