The Texas City Disaster: The Gathering Storm (part 1)

The story of how a ship on a mission of peace, carrying a cargo meant to heal the scars of war, became the instrument of the deadliest industrial disaster in American history...this is part one of our special three part series on the Texas City Disaster of 1947.

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