“I said, ‘Are you looking for an address?’ And they said yes, and it was ours,” she said. One of Jackie Eckerle’s three older sisters, Annie Hagerman, had gone to her family’s house to wait for Jackie to come home when she saw a police cruiser driving slowly by.
You’re just jumping to conclusions.’ And that whole night, I didn’t sleep at all, of course, because he didn’t come home.” “And, um, when my husband got home, I told him and he said, ‘No, No.
“I saw them carrying a kid out of the front and I said, ‘Those are Stephan’s shoes,’” Anne Votaw told O’Rourke.
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Later, Preston’s mother, watching the TV coverage at home, recognized something and realized her worst fear. But Preston still got separated in the crowd movement.
The 19-year-old Preston, who was short and had a slight build, had locked arms with his roommate, Hart Fales said. That night, 11 young people from the Cincinnati area were crushed by the crowd outside the coliseum and died of asphyxiation. Steve Upson: “We would have been 13 or 14 or whatever the number.”Įmily Maxwell Tammy Hart Fales survived the crowd crush before The Who concert on December 3, 1979. If we would have stayed any longer, we would have been. “So it was that crazy and the only thing was to exit. “We were getting pushed, so we had to put our feet out and step on people to keep from going on the pile, too,” Upson said. She said Doug pulled her up and led her and Upson out of danger. She had already seen the blue face of a helpless teen in a pile of people on the ground.īut Hart Fales was with another Finneytown friend, Stephan Preston, who had brought his tall and muscular college roommate, whom Hart Fales and Upson remember as Doug. Hart Fales said she fell in the suffocatingly-tight crowd and feared she would be trampled. Tammy Hart Fales and Steve Upson also attended Finneytown High and were at the concert that night. 4, as well an expanded documentary on the WCPO app on streaming devices. A companion podcast will be available Dec. Tuesday on WCPO Channel 9 and streamed on. Their remembrances will be included in a one-hour WCPO documentary, "The Who: The Night That Changed Rock,” airing at 8 p.m. O’Rourke also got exclusive, face-to-face interviews with rock legends Peter Townshend and Roger Daltrey of The Who, and the band’s manager, Bill Curbishley. 3, 1979, along with family members of four of the 11 victims – three from Finneytown - recently shared their stories with WCPO Anchor Tanya O’Rourke to mark the anniversary. They were among the lucky ones that night.įorty years later, four Finneytown schoolmates who survived the tragedy outside The Who concert on Dec. And multiple people running through that same glass window.” “Got her seated,” Wergers said, “and I came back down looking for the rest of the group and that’s when I found one of our friends, Cindy Meade, lying on the floor with no shoes, her purse gone, her coat gone, crying on the floor with a pile of other people’s belongings laying everywhere. But he didn’t foresee what he would encounter next. The 18-year old Wergers had just survived a life-or-death drama on the plaza. “I hate to say this today - sorry, police officer - I slammed a cop to get us out of the way and we went running into the show,” said Wergers, who was one of several friends from Finneytown High School gathered at the coliseum for the highly anticipated concert. Then, Wergers remembers, the duo ran through the turnstiles into the arena, where they thought British rock legends The Who had started playing. The crush of an anxious crowd pressed Matt Wergers and his girlfriend through a glass door on the Riverfront Coliseum plaza. Watch WCPO's documentary, "The Who: The Night That Changed Rock," in the video player above.
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