Flashback: The Who Tragedy In Cincinatti
It was 43 years ago Saturday (December 3rd, 1979) that 11 fans died in a stampede while entering the Who's concert at Cincinnati's Riverfront Coliseum. The tragedy -- which all but eradicated festival concert seating for nearly two decades -- happened when thousands of fans who were lined up outside the venue to make a mad dash for the stage upon the arena opening, rushed through only a few doors opened by the venue, flooding the lobby area, leaving nearly a dozen fans dead in their wake. The fans killed in the stampede were Teva Ladd (27), Walter Adams, Jr. (22), James Warmoth (21),...
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