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Newly Discovered Footage Shows Sinking Of SS Eastland

Published February 10, 2015 at 5:23 PM EST

Robert Siegel speaks with grad student Jeff Nichols about his recent find of footage from the SS Eastland disaster in July 1915. Nichols, who is a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Illinois at Chicago, found the clip while researching for his dissertation on Chicago and World War I propaganda.

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