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  • Remembrance ceremony to mark 50th anniversary of Silver Bridge collapse

    12/14/2017 6:20:37 AM PST · by buckalfa · 14 replies
    WVMetroNews ^ | December 13, 2017 | MetroNewsStaff
    POINT PLEASANT, W.Va. — Point Pleasant Mayor Brian Billings was 10 years old when the Silver Bridge collapsed on Dec. 15, 1967. He will be on hand Friday at a ceremony marking the 50th anniversary of the tragedy. Billings tells MetroNews his message will be clear. “We can’t let this ever go by without remembering, whether it’s 10, 25, 50 years from today, what took place in our city and what was enacted to work towards preventing things like this from happening across our country,” he said. Forty-six people died when the bridge between Point Pleasant and Gallipolis, Ohio fell...
  • Point Pleasant remembers those lost in the 1967 Silver Bridge Collapse. (WV)

    12/15/2015 7:25:43 PM PST · by Morgana · 10 replies
    WCHSTV8 ^ | December 15, 2015 | Dave Benton
    POINT PLEASANT, W.Va. -- Tuesday marks the 48th anniversary of the Silver Bridge collapse that killed 46 people and changed a small West Virginia town forever. It happened Dec., 15, 1967, during rush hour traffic in Point Pleasant. The investigation of the collapse pointed to a single eyebar in a suspension chain due to a defect. All but two victims were found in the debris. The bridge was replaced by the Silver Memorial Bridge two years later in 1969. *Photo from WV Archives at the Culture Center VIDEO ON LINK