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On July 6, 1944, the Big Top suddenly caught fire at a Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey circus performance in Hartford, Connecticut. This inferno killed 169 people, mostly women and children, and injured more than 550 others.Henry S. Cohn and David Bollier tell the story of this catastrophic circus fire and its remarkable legal aftermath.Cohn, Henry is the author of 'Great Hartford Circus Fire Creative Settlement of Mass Disasters' with ISBN 9780300050127 and ISBN 0300050127.
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