Skywalks: Robert Gordon's Untold Story of Hallmark's Kansas City Disaster - Hardcover
by R. Eli Paul
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Language:EnglishPublisher:Bison BooksISBN-13:9781496233134ISBN-10:1496233131UPC:9781496233134Book Category:History, Law, Social ScienceBook Subcategory:United States, Legal History, Disasters & Disaster ReliefBook Topic:State & LocalSize:8.90 x 5.83 x 1.18 inchesWeight:1.6006Product ID:SC9RV5S5FR
Skywalks: Robert Gordon's Untold Story of Hallmark's Kansas City Disaster
In 1981 the suspended walkways--or "skywalks"--in Kansas City's Hyatt Regency hotel fell and killed 114 people. It was the deadliest building collapse in the United States until the fall of New York's Twin Towers on 9/11. In Skywalks R. Eli Paul follows the actions of attorney Robert Gordon, an insider to the bitter litigation that followed. Representing the plaintiffs in a class action lawsuit...
Language:EnglishPublisher:Bison BooksISBN-13:9781496233134ISBN-10:1496233131UPC:9781496233134Book Category:History, Law, Social ScienceBook Subcategory:United States, Legal History, Disasters & Disaster ReliefBook Topic:State & LocalSize:8.90 x 5.83 x 1.18 inchesWeight:1.6006Product ID:SC9RV5S5FR
R. Eli Paul is the former director of the Missouri Valley Special Collections at the Kansas City Public Library. His public history career has spanned four decades, including previous tenures at the Nebraska State Historical Society, Heinz History Center in Pittsburgh, and the National World War I Museum. Paul is the author or editor of several books, including Eyewitness at Wounded Knee...
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