Friday, November 19, 2010

DOOM AND GLOOM! #7


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1941 RBBB elephant poisoning in Atlanta, Georgia.

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

What were the details regarding this?

Roger Smith said...

One good source, Anon, is Doc Henderson's book, CIRCUS DOCTOR. The Atlanta poisoning happened in his first year on the show.

Hal Guyon said...

Richard Reynolds knows everything about this. While visiting him in Atlanta several weeks ago he was telling me all about this. Believe it or not there`s a funny story about this tragedy that happened over 50 years later. Richard if you read this, please relay some of the details about this, you always intrigue me with your knowledge.

Ole Whitey said...

Years ago Kenny Feld was on Larry King and Bob Brisendine called in and asked if he were aware of the Atlanta elephant deaths and he was not.

Adaline said...

During a water stop they grazed on grass along the tracks that had been sprayed with herbicide.