The Edmund Fitzgerald sank 50 year ago, Nov. 10, 1975, and the legend lives on. Th e author of a new book, The Gales of November, joins us to discuss what we know about the freighter that went down, taking 29 men to their graves, and what is still unclear.
Listen to the radio transmission from the ship that fateful night.
Great Lakes Shipwreck Historical Society The Edmund Fitzgerald sits on the bottom of Lake Superior 530 feet below the surface.
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* We visit with a former students in Urbana whose friendship was forged during the desegregation of schools in the community.
* Sean Crawford talks with Steven Herman, the former White House Bureau Chief and Chief National Correspondent for Voice of America. The news service, aimed at a foreign audience, closed this year under orde

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