The cenotaph to the victims of the 1937 Texas School Explosion.

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The75^th Anniversary of the opening of the Mother Frances Hospital. It opened a day earlier than planned to take care of many hurt children from the March 18 1937 New London school explosion.  David Brown, author, and Jimmie Robinson, survivor interviewed.

Jimmie Robinson, Survivor

Author, David Brown

Jimmie Robinson, Survivor, interview on Pittsburgh radio KDKA Sept 4, 2010

On Saturday, September 4, 2010 at 7am EST David M. Brown, co-author of Gone at 3:17, will be on the Rob Pratte Show on Pittsburgh's KDKA Radio 1020AM (www.kdkaradio.com) interviewing (by phone) a New London explosion survivor, Jimmie Jordon Robinson.     

Jimmie Jordon was an 8-year-old third-grader attending classes at the grammar school adjacent to the Jr./Sr. high school.  She always went to meet her sister Elsie, 11, at the high school so they could go home together.  They were inseparable.  Jimmie was standing at the doorway to Elsie's classroom when the building exploded. 

 

This is one of the most heartwarming survival stories that took place in the midst of the worst school disaster in history, and Jimmie , now 81, retells it as if it happened yesterday.   

More: Survivor Story: Jimmie Robinson

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David M. Brown david@schooldisaster.com, 

Michael Wereschagin (co-author) michael@schooldisaster.com.