Talk:New London School explosion

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[edit] rationale of removal of an external link

A link to http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0_zm7AWKYrE was removed recently from this article. Was this an appropriate action? - Bevo 04:33, 1 December 2007 (UTC)

The comment on the removal was "Remove links -(C) status unclear". Copyright status of the video is the only reason I can see to remove this particular link. While I wouldn't want to quote it as a source, the images have a lot of impact, while the newsreader provides an interesting comparison to modern TV newsreaders.

To be completely clear, the issue here is not avoiding links to copyrighted works, it is avoiding links to copyrighted works posted on other sites without permission. There's a good chance this old newsreel is PD due to renewal requirements prior to 1964. But 'a good chance' is not the same as 'it is' -- Cyrius|✎ 23:50, 1 December 2007 (UTC)

This video is one of a collection hosted by YouTube that was explicited created for these old Universal Newsreels at http://www.youtube.com/user/UniversalNewsreels . It is not a one-off upload from an unknown source, but one of many preservations of these newsreels collected there. Also I find at http://www.archive.org/details/universal_newsreels the text "Universal City Studios gifted Universal Newsreel to the American people, put the newsreels into the public domain, and gave film materials to the National Archives in 1976. Surviving materials from the entire collection are available at the National Archives and Records Administration in College Park, Maryland." I think it is clear that a link to this particular newsreel is appropriate in this article and I will restore it after a few days if I'm still convinced this is so. - Bevo 15:01, 2 December 2007 (UTC)

Instead of the YouTube link (it seems all YouTube content is suspect with regards to license these days) I will instead use a link to http://www.archive.org/details/1937-03-20_Special_Release_Gas_Explosion_Shatters_School - Bevo 15:26, 2 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Uncertainty on exact time of explosion.

Based upon survivors' accounts of the event, there is a level of uncertainty of the exact moment in which the explosion occurred, with the earliest time appearing to be 3:05 and the latest appearing to be 3:20.

Lothar the Terrible 19:01, 4 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] As of 2008....

As of 2008, the New London School explosion is the third deadliest disaster in the history of Texas, after the Galveston Hurricane of 1900, and the 1947 Texas City Disaster.

Do we really need the words "As of 2008"? I feel that those words could easily be deleted and would make the section flow better. Jerry G. Sweeton Jr. (talk) 13:28, 23 January 2008 (UTC)