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The Savannah Tribune • Wednesday, March 29, 2023 5
Panel On Tripwire Podcast, Thiokol Explosion
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Remembering Woodbine -1971 Thiokol Chemical Plant Explosion documentary.
Courtesy of Anne and Pat Longstreth
Join the Savannah
Morning News and Savannah
State University on Wednes
day, March 29, at 6 p.m. for
an event detailing the Tripwire
podcast and its investigation
into the 1971 Thiokol plant ex
plosion that killed 29 people in
Woodbine, Georgia.
The podcast, which
is available online at Savan-
nahNow.com and on podcast
platforms, looks at the circum
stances leading up to February
3,1971, a day that has become
lost in the Georgia history
books.
On Feb. 3, 29 people,
predominately Black women,
lost their lives when a fire start
ed on the assembly line of the
Thiokol plant where workers
were building trip flares for the
Vietnam War effort. The fire
ran the gambit of the line and
ignited a room filled with mu
nitions, sending an explosive
shock that could be felt as far
as Jacksonville, Florida. In the
decades since, the tragedy has
faded from memory until the
efforts of the Thiokol Memo
rial Project brought the story
and the sacrifice of the women
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Savannah Tribune
&The NNPA in
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involved back to the forefront.
RSVP: For the Trip
wire event visit http://bit.
ly/40wc2Ul
More on the pod
cast: Tripwire — A narra
tive podcast investigating the
1971 Thiokol plant explosion
in Georgia visit http://bit.
ly/42BQIPj
Join the Tripwire
team, Nancy Guan and Zach
Dennis, along with Savannah
documentarians Anne and Pat
rick Longstreth, and Thiokol
Memorial Project executive
director Jannie Everette for
a panel discussion about the
making of the podcast and doc
umentary, the story of Thiokol
and Woodbine, and what the
Thiokol Memorial Project is
doing today to commemorate
the sacrifice made by these
women.
The panel will be held
at the Asa H. Gordon Library
on the Savannah State campus
at 6 p.m. It is free and open to
the public. If you plan to at
tend, RSVP at the Eventbrite
page ar http://bit.ly/40wc2Ul.
The Tripwire podcast
can be found on Apple Pod
casts, Spotify, Google Podcasts
and on SavannahNow.com.
Thank You For Reading
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