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Frank McManus

This person was a patrolman in the Boston Police Department in 1919. This person was about to make a phone call about the anarchists he was investigating when he looked out the window and saw "the top of the molasses tank" as it "blew straight into the air, then fell with a roar to the ground" (17). This person watched in amazement as "an enormous wave of molasses began flowing toward the elevated railroad" (17) in Boston, beginning the event that would come to be known as the Great Molasses Flood. This person went on to save many lives that day.

Hugh Ogden

This person was appointed by the Massachusetts Superior Court "to serve as the auditor who would read the investigators' reports, hear evidence from witnesses, and issue a final verdict as to whether USIA" was to be held criminally or civilly liable for the Great Molasses Flood. While...

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