RICHMOND, Va. — Sitting silently in our WTVR-TV archives for 24 years, there are two video tapes which are speaking volumes today. On the tapes are recordings of a man from Williamsburg, Virginia, who lived through one of the worst disasters in U.S. Military history.
Richard Paroubek survived the sinking of the U.S.S. Indianapolis 80 years ago this month.
“Strangely enough, I did not hear or feel the explosion,” Mr. Paroubek said. “But I found myself unconscious on the deck.”…