Survivors recall fatal crash 40 years ago

By: Associated Press - Texarkana Gazette

Associated Press Ron Hicks, left, and Frank Estes, right, and other family members of bus crash victims and survivors lay a wreath next to a monument during a 40th anniversary memorial services Dec. 14, 2012, at Crocket High School in Austin.

AUSTIN—On the night after Christmas 40 years ago, two buses carved a thin line across the vast blackness of the New Mexico plains. They carried 58 young people and seven chaperones from Woodlawn Baptist Church in South Austin, the passengers still reveling in the merry holiday glow, en rout...

Published: 01/09/2013