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Legionnaires, Train Jumps, and V-J Day | Spokane News
In 1976, a priest in a D.C. hospital baffled doctors with symptoms eerily matching Legionnaire’s disease—a mystery that had already claimed 24 lives and was tied to a Philly hotel stay. Meanwhile, in 1926, a man named Maurice Ahlquist tried to shave time off his train ride by jumping off a trestle over the Spokane River, only to crash hard into an embankment. His dad, a doctor at St. Luke’s Hospital, tended to him while he recovered. And then there’s 1945—V-J Day, when Japan surrendered and World War II ended, a global milestone amid personal struggles and historical turning points. These…
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