The New London School Explosion - March 18, 1937

On March 18, 1937, nearly 300 people died when the New London Consolidated School exploded in East Texas a school so wealthy from oil money that it had marble floors, yet they tapped into an unregulated gas line to save $300 a month. The tragedy reveals the complex calculations we still make between economic efficiency and human safety and why the lessons we learned weren't quite the ones we needed.