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The Barn That Became a Bomb: Inside Benton's Deadly Fireworks Blast
The Barn That Became a Bomb: Inside Benton's Deadly Fireworks Blast
A mushroom cloud six hundred to eight hundred feet high rose over rural Tennessee and was seen and heard more than twenty miles away - eleven people dead, debris scattered two hundred yards, and a barn that “should not have existed” obliterated in less than a second. How did a bait farm become the site of the deadliest illegal fireworks explosion in United States history, and who turned a struggling mason’s finances into a lethal enterprise?
In this episode, we follow the chain of events from a December meeting that launched…
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