09 Christmas Eve River Rescue Bygone Old Christmas December 2018 Issue

Nashville Retrospect by Allen Forkum

Dec 1, 201857:16Education

On Christmas Eve, 1956, a woman jumped off the Shelby Street Bridge into the Cumberland River with a baby in her arms. Host Allen Forkum (editor of The Nashville Retrospect newspaper) revisits this tragic and heroic stor...

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