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Port Chicago: The Night 320 Men Vanished and Were Blamed
Port Chicago: The Night 320 Men Vanished and Were Blamed
The blast at Port Chicago was visible thirty miles away and registered on Berkeley seismographs, yet the official report omitted training as a cause - and fifty men were later tried under a death-penalty statute. Who decided that untrained men would load 4,600 tons of explosives on a single Liberty ship, and why did it take eighty years for the full truth to reach a verdict?
In this episode, we lay out the sequence of events on the single pier at Port Chicago, the personnel and decisions that shaped operations there, and the immediate…
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