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Marshall Plane Crash History and "We are Marshall" coverage

39th anniversary of crash to be observed Saturday, Nov. 14

HUNTINGTON — The Marshall University Memorial Fountain will be turned off for the winter during a ceremony at noon Saturday, Nov. 14, to mark the 39th anniversary of the 1970 plane crash that killed most of Marshall’s football team.

The story of the 1970 Marshall Plane Crash

HUNTINGTON -- Well-wishers bidding goodbye to the 75 Marshall University football players, coaches and fans who took off from Kinston, N.C., after a heartbreaking 17-14 loss to East Carolina University in Greenville, couldn't have known that was the last time they would see them alive.

Q&A: 'We Are Marshall' fact vs. fiction

Published Jan. 10, 2007 HUNTINGTON -- Lively conversations have been happening on The Herald-Dispatch forums, and plenty of e-mails have poured in asking questions about what really happened in the true story of “We Are Marshall.”