"On the 27th of October, 1948, a thick smog descended on the town of Donora in Pennsylvania, plunging the community into a state of semidarkness..."

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CHAPTERS:
00:00 Intro
00:46 Background
02:42 The Donora Death Smog
07:33 Aftermath

MUSIC:
► "Glass Pond" by Public Memory

SOURCES:
► "The Deadly Donora Smog of 1948 Spurred Environmental Protection—But Have We Forgotten the Lesson?" by Lorraine Boissoneault, published by Smithsonian Magazine, October 2018. Link: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/histor...
► Donora Historical Society and Smog Museum Website, published by the Donora Historical Society. Link: https://sites.google.com/site/donorah...
► "The Donora Smog Revisited: 70 Years After the Event That Inspired the Clean Air Act" by Elizabeth T Jacobs, Jefferey L Burgess and Mark B Abbott, published by the American Journal of Public Health, April 2018. Available via: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/arti...
► "Decades ago, this pollution disaster exposed the perils of dirty air" by Cynthia Gorney, published by National Geographic, October 2020. Link: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/hi...

CORRECTIONS:
► In this video, I state that 26 people died during the smog. In fact, the number of people who died during the smog was most likely 21. The higher number was included in some reports after the smog, and has been reported incorrectly ever since.

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