The blast wave traveled at least 6,500 feet per second, significantly faster than the speed of sound, so it slammed into Joe Harris’ home on Doughton Way an instant before the walls of his workplace half a mile away crashed down on him. Harris’ young wife, Bertha, with one son crawling around in diapers and […]
Steve Mellon
Steve is a photojournalist and writer for the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, but he is currently on strike and working as a Union Progress co-editor. Reach him at smellon@unionprogress.com.
