Tag: April 1947
Garrett Billetter, Fatal Highway Crash, Pikeville KY, 1947
In a devastating turn of events, two young men from Pike County, Kentucky, lost their lives in a tragic highway crash on Monday, April 14, 1947. The accident occurred at approximately 8 o’clock on US Highway 23, five miles south of Pikeville, Kentucky. A 1947 Hudson car, driven by Garrett Billetter, 30, of Chloe Creek,…
Washington Tourist Camp Slum, East Potomac Park, 1947
In a shocking exposé, the Senate Civil Service Committee has revealed that the Washington Tourist Camp in East Potomac Park has descended into squalor, despite its prime location in one of Washington’s finest parks. The US Public Health Service had issued a stark warning last June to the Office of National Capital Parks, which oversees…
