DENVER (KDVR) — On display now at History Colorado in downtown Denver is an exhibit highlighting the bombing of United Flight 629, and the stories of the 44 who died that night 70 years ago.
“The victims of United Flight 629; they weren’t just names on a list, as they often appear. They were human beings with complex lives and dreams and struggles,” said Jeremy Morton, exhibition developer and historian at History Colorado.
Morton has gathered mementos and artifacts that show the ripples of devastation after the plane exploded moments after takeoff from Stapleton Airport in Denver on Nov. 1, 1955.
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“The artifact that sticks with me the most is a jacket that was sewn together by one of the victim’s wives, Marion Hobgood. His wife actually took his wedding suit jacket and sewed that into a smaller jacket for his two daughters. I think it just speaks so poignantly to the extreme grief that someone goes through when there’s a tragedy like this, that in order to deal with it, she was taking something that he wore that belonged to her and then transferring it to give her daughter something of their father, even though he was gone,” Morton told FOX31…