marshall plane crash 1970
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HUNTINGTON - Red Dawson slips quietly behind the cameras and soaks in the actors wearing gaudy clothes and outdated hair styles during production for a movie about the worst disaster in U.S. sports history - the 1970 Marshall plane crash.
Strange," said Dawson, an assistant coach on the team who is being portrayed by Matthew Fox in "We Are Marshall.
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If you go What: "We Are Marshall" exhibit Where: Marshall Hall of Fame Cafe, 857 Third Ave., across from Pullman Square, Huntington When: The restaurant is open from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. Sunday, 11 a.m. to 11 p.m. Monday-Thurday and from 11 a.m. to 1 a.m. Friday and Saturday. Cost: Free Info: www.halloffamecafes.com
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HUNTINGTON - Today is a football game day, and it's Nov. 14. For Marshall fans, there isn't much need to elaborate.
For only the fourth time, the Thundering Herd will play on the anniversary of the 1970 plane crash. Whether by fate or design, the Herd has not played another road game on Nov. 14 since that dreary night after a game at East Carolina.
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HUNTINGTON - Memorial Fountain on the Marshall University student center plaza is silenced each November.
The water stops flowing after a wreath is laid at the fountain during a memorial service to honor victims of the 1970 Marshall plane crash.
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A movie detailing the aftermath of the 1970 Marshall University plane crash will start filming March 20 in Huntington with Matthew McConaughey starring, according to the producer of the project.
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For anyone who has ever wanted to make it onto the silver screen, now may be the time.
Marshall University has set up a hotline for people interested in playing an extra in the movie to be made by Warner Brothers studios about the devastating 1970 plane crash that left 75 from the Marshall community dead, including the football team and several coaches.
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BROOKFIELD, Ohio -- Inside Carl Kokor's home, a plethora of memories, mostly tributes to Marshall's football players and coaches who died in a fiery plane crash on Nov. 14, 1970, are scattered about an antique table.
Kokor, hired as an assistant shortly before spring practice, survived only because of a twist of fate. If the scouting rotation had differed, he and assistant Mickey Jackson probably would have traveled with the team to Greensville, N.C.
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INSIDE: Marshall notebook 5B
Virginia Tech has a considerable emotional connection to the 1970 Marshall plane crash, and the Hokies will acknowledge that when they come to Huntington this weekend.
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NOV. 14 IS A date that brings back painful memories for many of us in West Virginia. On that date in 1970 was the Marshall plane crash.
It's hard to believe it's been 41 years since the worst sports air tragedy in U.S. history brought our state to its collective knees.
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HUNTINGTON - Longtime Huntington newspaper reporter and columnist Jack Hardin has died. He was 84.
Hardin covered the 1970 Marshall University plane crash and was a consultant for the movie "We Are Marshall.