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A brief history: On November 14, 1970, seventy-five Marshall Thundering Herd football players, coaches, boosters, members of the media, and flight crew died when their plane crashed on approach at Tri-State Airport in West Virginia. This story is now a movie called We Are Marshall.
The movie obviously could not tell each individual story, but one of the players was a birth father. His birth daughter shared her story with the media.
[url=http://www.herald-dispatch.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/99999999/MUCRASH04/605300304/1101]Daughter's search turns up father she never knew <span class="story_bodycopy"> <p><em>Editor's note: This story was originally published Nov. 14, 2003</em></p><p>HUNTINGTON -- Listening to stories and looking at pictures. That's all Patty Smith can d[/url]
"They told me my father died in the Marshall plane crash, that I was born a week later, the day they buried him," she said. "They said both parents were only children and that my mother was also a college student."
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