The Who Concert Crush | A Short Documentary | Fascinating Horror
"On the 3rd of December, 1979, English rock band The Who were scheduled to play a concert at the Riverfront Coliseum in Cincinnati, Ohio..."
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00:11On the 3rd of December, 1979, English rock band
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00:36When the go-ahead was finally given to let the
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undefined:undefineddemand. 18,348 tickets were put on sale for
01:11the concert at the Riverfront Coliseum, and every
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undefined:undefinedthe festival seating system,
01:34general admission ticket holders could pick
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undefined:undefinedblocking them. Minor crushes were also common,
01:59as fans would often gather outside
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undefined:undefinedgranted admission from 3:00pm, and so arrived a
02:24few hours before that at 1:00pm. They gathered
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undefined:undefinedthere were several thousand people present at
02:54this time, with more arriving every hour. The
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undefined:undefinedsome fans were losing patience.
03:23Small crushes developed around several
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undefined:undefinedfinal sound check before the concert began.
03:51This sound check, according to some witness
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undefined:undefinedside of the main entrance were opened. The result
04:15was an intense crush around these doors. Staff
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undefined:undefinedcarried by the sheer pressure of the crowd.
04:44Survivors report feeling that they were trampling
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undefined:undefinedupwards, mouths open, just trying to breathe.
05:10The heat of bodies created a visible vapor
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undefined:undefinedthe police to beg them to take action...
05:35only to be reprimanded and told to refrain
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undefined:undefinedpeople died within minutes of the crush beginning,
06:01their bodies were held in a standing
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undefined:undefinedalong with thousands of bloody footprints.
06:25Indeed, some patrons would only
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undefined:undefinedof the venue. While The Who took to the stage,
06:52the dead were removed from the scene and the
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undefined:undefined15-year-old Karen Morrison, 19-year-old Stephan
07:29Preston, 20-year-old Philip Snyder, 17-year-old
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undefined:undefinedso they would never play again.
07:57Instead they dedicated their next
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undefined:undefinedwider world was at times unsympathetic.
08:24Some commentators blamed the victims. The crowd,
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undefined:undefinedthat the use of festival seating had played a key
08:51role in events... and moreover that there had
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undefined:undefinedemergency situations. Many of these accusations
09:18were disputed by Coliseum management, who
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undefined:undefinedfestival seating specifically,
09:39noting that the problem was getting worse over
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undefined:undefinedcrush some action was finally taken.
10:04Cincinnati, along with several other
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undefined:undefinednever permitted. The Riverfront Coliseum has
10:28greatly improved its safety record, and rebranded.
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undefined:undefined"11 concertgoers, trapped in a crush of people,
10:59died at the southwest plaza entrance to the
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