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One Strobe Over The LineSeason3x04Episode No.35Episode InformationOriginal Broadcast DateOctober 19, 1990NetworkNBC-TVIMDbOne Strobe Over The LineWritten byChris RuppenthalDirected byMichael ZinbergLeap InformationLeap DateJune 15, 1965PlaceNew York City, NY, U.S>LeapeeKarl GransonChronological InformationPreceded byFollowed by"Leap of Faith""The Boogieman"One Strobe Over the Line was the fourth episode of Season 3 of the TV series Quantum Leap, also the 35th overall series episode. The episode, which was written by Chris Ruppenthal and directed by Michael Zinberg, originally aired on NBC-TV on October 19, 1990.
Here is the first drug developed for social rather than medicinal purposes. At first, the Pill is only available to married women, but American culture rapidly adopts the new contraceptive choice. By 1965, over five million American women are on the Pill, even though many states still have laws prohibiting prescriptions for unmarried women and minors. The Pill does not cause the sexual revolution, but certainly enables it. The Pill also brings contraception out of the bedroom and into the living room. It becomes a common theme of magazine articles and books - and even co-stars with David Niven and Deborah Kerr in a 1968 movie: Prudence and the Pill.
An estimated audience of over 400,000 people gather for three days of music near Bethel, NY, swarming across the pastures of Max Yasgur's dairy farm. The festival is the brainchild of four men under age 26 (including one with a multimillion-dollar trust fund). Only 186,000 tickets are sold, so around 200,000 people are expected - but the amazing lineup of bands and musicians draws many more. Fences are pushed over and tickets become pointless. On opening night, sponsors declare free admission to all, and the word spreads like wildfire. Police estimate a million more people trying to reach Woodstock are stuck in traffic jams up to 50 miles away. In rain and mud, thousands listen to Janis Joplin, The Who, Canned Heat, the Grateful Dead, Crosby Stills Nash & Young, and Country Joe & The Fish. On the last morning, guitarist Jimi Hendrix wakes the crowd with a riveting solo version of the national anthem. The final cost is $2.4 million. A film of the concert is released the following year.
On June 9, 1965, neighbors in the 1800 block of Cody Street heard yelling at about 2 p.m. They went outside to discover Elie Boisvert had been cut, and he was yelling at a male to leave. Witnesses described the person as a black male, 35 to 40 years of ag...
Hundreds Homeless
Three hundred homeless were fed and sheltered in a Sanderson grade school and 200 others were taken 65 miles north to Fort Stockton. Highway travel in the Sanderson area was retsricted because of washouts. Rescue workers and supplies were being routed in from the east. Officials said they hope to have busy U.S. 90, a main east west coast-to-coast route, open shortly. Up to 11 inches of rain at Longfellow, 20 miles west of here, rolled down Sanderson Cayon. The gushing torrent swept away some houses with people clinging to them. The wall of water rose to the eaves of other houses and spread out 500 yards In places. Six members of the John Wesey Johnson family were counted among the dead. A family of five vanished in he sudden cloudburst and four members of another family all children also were missing. Tales of horror spread tnrough the town, about midway between San Antonio and E Paso and near the Mexican border. Charles Horsely, 22, a railroad brakeman, told of being stranded atop an apartment for three hours and watching helplessly as the raging waters engulfed to Negro Porters at another elevated point. I don't expect they had a t chance once they got Into the main current," he said. Mrs. Thomas Corbbett, 27 wife of a railroad worker, told of being warned of the approaching water, which struck about 7 a.m. and fleeing in a car with her five children to safety She said a family of four in a car nearby "got out of the car and started running and the water took them off." The grimmest account cam from Morris Nichols, 22, _ brakeman from Monahans Tex., who nearly drowned in futile attempt to aid the Johnson family. Later, clinging to a utllity pole for his life, he looked back' to see the Johnson children atop a motel. "It just started crumbling and went over and everybody was. would die and I couldn't help them. Nobody could help them. Nichols, who survived with cuts and bruises and an injure leg, said he also witnessed at other death scene. "When I was on that pole, saw a house come down the street I guess it was a street with three people on it. Source: News and Tribune, The Jefferson City, Missouri Sunday, June 13, 1965 - Submitted by Janice Rice
SANDERSON, Tex. (AP) 'I grabbed a tree, but there was a snake on it and I let go. "1 went under 5 times, maybe 10 times. "I thought I was going to die, This was the grim story of Michael Johnson, 12, as he told of his brush with death in the flash flood that temporarily isolated this southwest Texas community Friday. The slender blonde youth speaking from a hospital bed at Fort Stockton, 65 miles north of here said: We were on the roof of this Motel when it started cracking to pieces. "Mother said, Michael get hold of Paul. I tried to grab my brother but he was just to far away. It just seemed like a dream to me. Swept away by a 15ft wall of water were Mike's parents, Mr. and Mrs. John Wesley Johnson, and the couple's five other children, ranging in ages from 5 to 14. Search parties probing along a normally dry creek in Sanderson Canyon recovered the bodies of all but Johnson. He is among 11 persons listed as missing. "We can assume only that all are dead," 'said Terrell Count Sheriff Bill Cooksey. Officials have counted 15 dead and 35 injured from the storm which devastated the southern section of Sanderson, a railroad center of 2,350 about midway between San Antonio and El. Paso. Ten of the known victims were children. Cooksey said the search would continue "as long as there is any hope of recovering the bodies." Grief-torn families, aided by the Red Cross, Salvation Army and assorted military continued massive cleanup operations. The sheriff's office said 50 homes, mostly low-cost dwellings, were destroyed. An additional 36 homes received major damage and had minor damage. The office said 244 families sustained losses, 13 trailer homes were destroyed, and 27 small businesses damaged. Although no official damage estimate exists. U.S. Rep. Richard. White of El Paso estimated losses at S2 million. Source: Jefferson City Post-Tribune Jefferson City, Missouri Monday, June 14, 1965 - Submitted by Janice Rice
SANDERSON (f) Workers uncovered the body of a 17th victim of Friday's flash flood, a small boy, m an auto wrecking yard yesterday. Authorities said he presumably was one of 10 persons listed as missing and presumed dead, but they had been unable to identify the child. State Patrolman Leon Roberts reported a number of dead animals also were found in and around' Sanderson during the day. "It still looks like there was , flood here," Roberts said: The main street has all been cleaned up but no repairs have been made. Nearly a foot of rain in Sanderson Canyon just above here sent the flood hurtling through his far West Texas town; causing an estimated $2 million damage. Source: Corpus Christi Times Corpus Christi, Texas Wednesday, June 16, 1965 - Submitted by Janice Rice
Mud, sweat and tears were faced by the people of Sanderson today as they started to clean up the havoc wrought by a devastating $3.5 million flash Hood that occurred at 7 a.m. Friday. Rescue parties went out again today to search for an estimated 11 victims of the flood still missing. There are 16 known dead. Lt. Jerry Miller of the Department of Public Safety said, "I doubt if we will ever find some of the missing bodies. Victims have been found as far as five miles out of town. Bulldozers and heavy earth-moving equipment have been operated around the clock since they began to arrive there from surrounding towns Friday, pushing bits and pieces of what had been homes for 450 people Into clusters to be sprayed with disinfectant. Retaining walls of washed-out bridges were reinforced, and smashed cars were hauled to the Sanderson Courthouse and stacked on the grounds. Southern Pacific crews worked throughout the night on washed-out tracks so that train service can be restored. Telephone and electric company linemen worked feverishly, putting in new poles and repairing downed wires. ' Anti-typhoid shots were given to those who had not received them yesterday. The homeless ate at the Army Field kitchen set up by a detachment from Ft. Bliss at Sanderson school and slept there in the school rooms on mattresses provided by the American Red Cross. Saturday, bodies washed out of the Sanderson Cemetery were mass-buried in a bulldozed pit to eliminate additional health hazards. Spray teams poured germ-killing chemicals over affected areas citizens reflected the attitude of Sheriff Bill Cooksey who said. "The only thing left now is to pick up our dead and start all over." Premo Reyna, shoveling mud, said he had gotten up at 7 a.m. to go to work when the water hit his house. He and his family managed to survive by standing on the bed to keep their heads above the water. Missing Southern Pacific porter A. S. Scott was last seen, Lt. Jerry Miller said, sitting on the top of a boxcar attempting to ride out the raging waters. "The man who saw him said the box car hit a bridge and seemed to explode into splinters," he said. Jesus Marcus saved his wife and children by tying a rope to a bedpost so they could hang on to it, but he was washed away during his heroic effort to save his loved ones. He has not yet been found. Mrs. J. Sellers watched her twin sons Jerry and Frankie, 6, and their little sister. Debra disappear in the raging water. Another child, Ken Wayne Sellers, is missing. Maj. Robert Short of the Salvation Army In San Angelo, who arrived in Sanderson shortly after the disaster, said he had been told by some of the residents that they managed to survive by sitting on housetops, knocking holes Into the ceiling and climbing into the attic, or simply running ahead of the raging waters. The flash flood resulted when waters running down Sanderson Canyon southwest of Sanderson coverged with those coming down a former dry draw northwest of the town. Railroad timbers and debris are believed to have caught against the abutment of one of the bridges to form a temporary dam, which, when the bridge washed out, flooded the town suddenly with a tidal wave ranging from 30 to 60 feet deep, rushing with waves up to 12 feet high. The timbers, railroad ties and telephone poles were hurled as battering rams against buildings in the path of the flood waters. They battered the walls of the 50-year-old wool and mohair storage warehouse owned by Mr. and Mrs. John T. Williams, doing an estimated 150,000 damage and sweeping sacks of mohair along the flood route. When the waters receded mohair hung like Spanish moss throughout the stricken area. Mrs. Williams said the impact of the water had picked up and moved a two-ton safe across the warehouse, but had left a smaller lighter safe in its original position. Out shoveling mud from their warehouse, she said cheerfully, "Our business, is a total loss. But I guess we might as well laugh as cry. We'll start all over again." "Most insurance does not cover flood damage," she said. Personal belongings of residents could be seen for miles down Sanderson Canyon, east of town. Children's toys, clothing, refrigerators, irons, mattresses, shoes lay matted with mud in the formerly dry Sanderson Canyon Creek. All roads are open into the area now to all traffic, the Department of Public Safely said. Lt. Miller said no more food or clothing was needed. Source: El Paso Herald-Post El Paso, Texas Monday, June 14, 1965