he was newly-hired on the eastland. he came by the army corps of engineers and was a very skillful, adept, chief engineer. sensing the danger on the eastland, he turned the engines and propellers off. it would have been awful if the propellers had still been turning in the water and people were spilling into it. it was one of basic was of things he did. he only worked eight weeks on the eastland. he was a skillful mariner. he knew what he was doing and knew his way around and engineering. he did the best he could to control this. he had never encountered one in his 10-plus years where he was certified as a specialist as a top officer in an engine room that requires federal licensing. i mean, these guys are tested hard for more than one week. the eastland was not responding to what he needed it to do. here is an important thing to know about him. when the ship capsized, a lot of the crew jumped up, ran up ladders, and got out as quickly as they could. they left the passengers behind. it is really rotten behavior. erickson

the eastland people are swimming in this. it is bad. he was one of two owners in the final ownership. it was owned by three companies and it came back to lake michigan. they only owned it about a year and a half. what is intriguing about that is, you talk about the thing where it almost tipped over and it almost tipped over again in late erie. this is a world where information could disappear like that. the checkered past was not followed up. questioner: did you uncover any records of seesaw action or find things that were not reported before? host: yes. the 1903 episode was written up. there were passengers terrified. the man said, "turn the ship around." they squirted them with water hoses. when they arrived at the dock in chicago, they were wearing them. when the reporters asked, they had a great story. there was a picnic and they had a ship like this. one of the witnesses of this was on the eastland and came in michigan. this is where darrow is operating, and so forth. he tells the court that he was so frightened that he got off and

the eastland leaned further. in the engine room, a chute used to discharge ashes dipped under water. the river began to gush in. some of the smokers and oilers hightailed it up ladders and fled. on the tugboat, mcdonald was alarmed to see water starting to gush into open gangways. the square doorways used to load cargo and passengers. before he could even shout a warning, one of the bow lines, pulling and pulling on a massive stake, lifted the piling out of the dock. then the second dock line snapped. "get off! "get off! the boat is turning over!" shouted a vegetable cart owner. struck now by the danger captain peterson yelled to a crew member, "open the doors. take people off." a refrigerator tipped over on a lower deck and bottles crashed. dishes slipped from their shelves and smashed. people sitting in chairs on the top deck do not have time to rise and began flying into the air, still seated. a dozen passengers try to lead toward the dock but hit the steel hull and careened into the river. children tumbled wit

i will say the eastland was not a she. the moment the machinery of went in, it was a wreck. >> what happened to the eastland when they got the wreckage out? >> is a great question. the aftermath is, as soon as they raise it, the navy takes over. they inspect the ship. they decide that it seems like a good ship. what we cut the deck, fix the ballast, do all the things that walter steel talked about doing? the navy doesn't and the ship operates fine. -- does it and the ship operates fine. he used it to train soldiers in world war i. they wanted to use it in world war ii, but the war ended. importantly, they made the changes to the ballast system that made the ship safe. it sailed without incident. this is a detail that you love as a writer. i looking over the inspection report in the national archives in washington dc -- washington d.c. the naval inspector's report a year or two after the incident shows that they were concerned. this killed 800 people. are the sailors concerned? in dry speak, he says that they determined that

. >> a crowd of shoppers rushing through the entrance at eastland mall. ♪ >> reporter: nike, reebok converses are now also the subject of an exhibition at the brooklyn museum in new york. it's called the rise of sneaker culture. the first pairs date back to the 1800s, and the development of rubber souls for sports shoes. but it was 1984 when michael jordan teamed up with nike to produce the first air jordans that sneakers became synonymous with fashion. >> it's origin really were urban. basketball itself is a very important urban game. >> reporter: run dmc further solidified the sneaker's place in urban style. >> run dmc was the first band to usher in twhaef of sneaker culture. they were the first ones to make people recognize that we as young people had a voiz and power. >> reporter: this show also chronicles technological innovations from reebok's insta pump, to the latest adidas model which is made from reclaimed plastics. still it's the snazzy designs that catch your eye. dee remembers the first pair of sneakers he fell in love with. >> they were so colorful and i just had to have them.

. >> on december 3rd, the two have their first meeting in the parking lot of charlotte's eastland mall. while the support team positions itself nearby. >> the first meeting was hey, see what she has to say, see if she's serious about this or if this thing has been blown out of proportion. >> initially, agents restrict eavesdropping to audio surveillance. >> cj wore a wire, old style wire, has tons of wiring in it, it has batteries in it, the batteries will die, the reception is poor at times. you may or may not be able to record. you may or may not hear it clearly. >> okay, guys, i'm pulling in the mall now. >> i was trying to get those verbal queues over the radio to people that were in surveillance could tell where i was, what i was doing. all right. i see what i think is the van over there, i'm going to go on over there. >> she said the only thing i'm concerned about is being here in this parking lot. she just was scared she might run into somebody she knew there. >> how much you thought about this thing? >> off and on for a year. i have been trying to find someone to do it without

. >> a crowd of shoppers rushing through the entrance at eastland mall. >> nikes reebok, converse and adidas are now also the subject of an exhibition at the brooklyn museum, called the rise of sneaker culture. the first pairs date back to the 1800s and the development of rubber soles for sports shoes. in 1984 when basketball legend michael jordan teamed up to mike key to produce the first air jordans to sneakers became synonymous with status. >> it has become global, but its origin were urban. basketball itself is a very important urban game. the shoe remains some of the central form of footwear for sneaker culture. >> run d.m.c. immortalized their song and favorite shoe, further slid filing the sneaker's place in urban style. >> run d.m.c., the first to usher in the sneaker culture. they made people recognize that we as young people had a voice and had power. >> forget the fashion statement. this show chronicles techological innovations giving a snug if it to the latest model made from reclaimed plastics. >> still it's the snazzy designs that catch your eye. he remembers the first s

the poor. and i was supposed to testify on head start because senators stennis and eastland, very powerful senators, had threatened to hold up the entire poverty program's appropriations if they didn't defund this community race program where parents and children were having the time of their lives. but then, for whatever reason, peter came down to... my husband now, came down to advance this hearing. but i had an image. i was very busy, i had a brief to write. and he called up to see if he could see me, and i said, "no, i'm too busy." and i had this image of peter being like pierre salinger. i had not been a great bobby kennedy fan in the early days because when the president... his brother was president, they had appointed a lot of segregationist jobs, judges, in the south, and secondly, they had wiretapped dr. king. and i had remembered him as well from the mccarthy hearings. >> hinojosa: you were kind of angry. >> i was kind of angry, and i thought this was a nice, arrogant, cigar-chomping man who was coming down, so i didn't have time for him, and he turned out to be this really nice man, just

tv, author michael mccarthy discusses the july 1915 capsizing of the ss eastland in the chicago river. over 800 factory workers died in the tragedy, including 22 entire families. mccarthy examines the faulty ballast system that caused the ship to capsize and he talks about the forgotten legacy of the ss eastland. hosted by the new york public library, this program is about 90 minutes. michael: thank you very much. i really appreciate this turnout. i know it is beautiful outside and the tulips are fantastic. thank you for taking the time to come to this presentation. it is correct.