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The Dam That Killed 400 People In Their Sleep

Just before midnight on March 12th, 1928, a hundred-and-forty-foot wall of water explodes out of a canyon north of Los Angeles. Twelve hours earlier, the man who built the dam stood at its base and called it safe. The St.

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