The following excerpt is from the February 8, 2015 edition of the Chicago Tribune:
For years, Ted Wachholz had all the evidence he needed to believe that film footage of the 1915 SS Eastland disaster on the Chicago River existed, except maybe for the film itself.
The chief historian of a group dedicated to the capsizing that killed 844 people could cite newspaper clippings that refer to recording equipment and archived photos that show movie cameras on tripods.
That changed Saturday morning, when the founder of the Eastland Disaster Historical Society woke up to links on the group’s Facebook page to footage posted by a doctoral candidate at the University of Illinois at Chicago.
Thanks to my friend, Linda Petrasek, for the heads-up.
