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History Matters: The Tunguska event of 1908

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Map showing the approximate location of the Tunguska event of 1908
CIA / Bobby D. Bryant
Dr. Gary Joiner
Credit Press Image / LSU Shreveport

Airs Tuesday, August 15, 2017, at 7:45 p.m. Dr. Gary Joiner takes us back to 1908 and the Tunguska event and the explosion over this sparsely populated eastern Siberian Taiga Forest that flattened 2,000 square kilometers of forest yet caused no known human casualties.

History Matters is made possible in part by the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities and Louisiana Cultural Vistas Magazine. 

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