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  • One Minute After Sunrise

  • The Story of the Standard Oil Refinery Fire of 1955
  • By: John Hmurovic
  • Narrated by: Alan Blazek
  • Length: 7 hrs and 14 mins

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One Minute After Sunrise

By: John Hmurovic
Narrated by: Alan Blazek
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Summary

Whiting, Indiana Saturday, August 27, 1955 Sunrise, 6:11 a.m. Its 80 degrees in the shade, and most of the city's residents are still trying to sleep off an airless, oppressive night. But inside the plant at Whiting's biggest employer (and one of the worlds largest oil refineries), something has gone horribly wrong, something that threatens to destroy the entire community.

The clock changes. 6:12 a.m.

This is the story of what happened at one minute after sunrise on that cataclysmic day in 1955, spoken in the words of the people who lived through it. Its the story of how, in the passing of a single instant, their lives and their community were changed forever.

©2017 John Hmurovic (P)2020 John Hmurovic

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