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DeminPennswoods

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4. One of the worst days of my life

Reply to Dennis Donovan (Original post)

Thu Dec 31, 2020, 10:58 AM

Dec 2020

as a western Pennsylvanian. Just shocking. I can still hear Curt Gowdy annoucing it on whatever bowl game he was calling.

David Mariness' bio of Clemente is terrific and spells out all the failures that lead to the plane crash.

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