Interesting. I am certainly old enough to remember the disaster vividly. I watched the BBC's recent dramatisation of the terrible event, its aftermath and the investigation. It was presented as a coherent story with expert forensics investigators from the UK and the US cooperating to solve the puzzle step by step. Key witnesses like Bollier were introduced and then their role in unravelling the mystery became clearer with each episode. I knew that some of the facts are disputed, some of the links tenuous, but as you say even the Wiki page is confusing. As a TV programme it was interesting and moving and clearly it sought to give due respect to and remembrance of the victims, the affected familes, the locals and the investigators. It probably also had to tell one story. So I will be following this series with interest.
It's an infuriating story in so many ways, not least of which is the near damned certainty that there has been a tradeoff between the justice those families deserve and other priorities. And the complexities of the minutiae make it hard to understand exactly how that outcome was accomplished. But not impossible.
Interesting. I am certainly old enough to remember the disaster vividly. I watched the BBC's recent dramatisation of the terrible event, its aftermath and the investigation. It was presented as a coherent story with expert forensics investigators from the UK and the US cooperating to solve the puzzle step by step. Key witnesses like Bollier were introduced and then their role in unravelling the mystery became clearer with each episode. I knew that some of the facts are disputed, some of the links tenuous, but as you say even the Wiki page is confusing. As a TV programme it was interesting and moving and clearly it sought to give due respect to and remembrance of the victims, the affected familes, the locals and the investigators. It probably also had to tell one story. So I will be following this series with interest.
It's an infuriating story in so many ways, not least of which is the near damned certainty that there has been a tradeoff between the justice those families deserve and other priorities. And the complexities of the minutiae make it hard to understand exactly how that outcome was accomplished. But not impossible.