Show Notes
After the horror they endured, Titanic's surviving crew and passengers are subjected to weeks of cross-examination on both sides of the Atlantic. The US Senate Inquiry is derided as a hapless clown show, and the British Wreck Inquiry, a shameless whitewash.
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