in and out of Tri State Airport a number of times years ago. A school friend's uncle was with the MU alum group and among the 70 who perished. A horrific tragedy with severe impacts for the Big Green Team, Marshall University, Huntington, West Virginia and multiple communities.
- 'Old Main' is the oldest structure at Marshall University. A fine campus and school.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Main_(Marshall_University)
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- 'Marshall-Huntington Linked Forever By Plane Crash.' West Virginia Public Broadcasting | By Eric Douglas, Nov. 13, 2020. [Editors Note: The following article was also published in the Fall 2020 issue of GOLDENSEAL Magazine].
On the evening of November 14, 1970, 75 Marshall University football team members, coaches and community members lost their lives in a plane crash. Obviously, the crash changed the lives of the families forever. But the crash changed Huntington, West Virginia and Marshall University, too. In the late 1960s, Huntington was a typical city for the region. It had a thriving business sector with steel and glass making factories as well as a company that manufactured railroad cars.
Marshall University was located in the middle of Huntington, but it was separate. The community supported the football and basketball teams on game days, but there wasn’t much more of a connection. The relationship between the blue-collar town and the university wasn’t strained; they just had little to do with each other. That changed after the crash. About the same time, the city began going through economic changes of its own. The nation itself was in an economic slump in the late 1960s that entered an official recession in 1969 and 1970. The heavy industry that had propelled Huntington to prominence began to close.
Aftermath: Morris “Mac” McMillian was a student at Marshall when the plane crashed. He described the atmosphere on campus in those next few days as “devastated.” “Everything was closed, except for the old Shawkey Student Union. We sat there and stared at each other. We didn't know what to do. There were no announcements. The buildings were closed, there were no classes,” McMillian said. And there was only one subject on everyone’s mind. “People just walked around in a daze downtown. And then people would, if you would get engaged in conversation with someone, it would be ‘Did you know anybody on the plane?’,” he said... https://www.wvpublic.org/section/arts-culture/2020-11-13/marshall-huntington-linked-forever-by-plane-crash
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