by Jon Wilkman
flood fatalities in, here, here, here
investigators and, here
testimony of, here
work and family of, here, here, here, here
Ruiz family ranch, here, here, here, here, here, here, here
Rumsey, Mrs. A.M., here, here, here
Sacramento Union, here
sag pipes, here, here, 44, 55. See also No Name Sag Pipe
Salton Sea, here
Saltsville, Virginia, here
Salvation Army, here, here
Samaniego, Rose, and family, here
San Andreas fault, here, here, here
San Diego County, California, here
San Fernando Valley
annexation with Los Angeles, here
drive through, here
Mulholland, community in, here
Mulhollands and, here, here, here
suburbs of, here, here
San Fernando Valley Mission Land Company, here
San Francisco, California, here, here, here, here, here, here
San Francisco Bulletin, here
San Francisco earthquake, here
San Francisquito Canyon
in 2015, here
after flood, here
aqueduct plans and, here
author’s childhood near, here
Del Valle family and, here
earthquake dangers in, here, here, here
economy of, here
geology of, here, here, here, here, here
Harnischfeger and, here, here
importance in early Los Angeles history, here
jurors’ visit to, here, here
Mulholland and Van Norman’s drive through, here
Mulholland’s first arrival in, here
on night before flood, here
powerhouses in, here, here
quiet and isolation of, here
as site for St. Francis Dam, here, here, here, here
sluicing in, here
San Francisquito Creek, here, here, here, here, here
San Francisquito School, here, here, here, here, here
San Gabriel Dam, here
San Quentin Prison, here, here, here, here, here, here
Santa Barbara, California, here
Santa Clara River and Valley. See also Fillmore, California; Piru, California; Santa Paula, California
after flood, here, here
agriculture in, here
Blue Cut, here
communities in, here
dam break and, here, here, here
dam plans and, here, here
Kemp Camp, here, here, here, here, here
Mexican-American population in, here
Mulholland and Van Norman’s ride past, here
percolation test and, here
real estate project planned for, here
restoration of, here, here, here
Santa Clara River Protective Association, here, here, here, here
Santa Clarita, California, here
Santa Clarita Valley Historical Society, here, here
Santa Monica, California, here
Santa Monica Anti-Annexation Committee, here
Santa Paula, California
in 2015, here
after flood, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here
C.C. Teague in, here
colonias in, here
community in 1920s, here, here
film studio in, here
Ku Klux Klan in, here
on landslide in Santos, Brazil, here
legal claims made in, here, here, here
Louise Gipe on duty in, here
Mexican-American population in, here
on night of flood, here
Outland and, here, here
promotional film of, here
Spanish Town in, here
Union Oil Company founded in, here
Santa Paula Chronicle, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here
Santos, Brazil, landslide in, here
Saticoy Bridge, here
Saugus, California
gossip and rumors in, here, here
Mulholland and Van Norman’s drive through, here
on night of flood, here, here, here, here
Outland’s interviews in, here
post office in, here, here, here
reporters in, here
in Santa Clarita, here
SCE substation in, here, here, here, here
Savage, John L., here
Sazilly, J. Augustin de, here
Scattergood, Ezra
BPL leadership, here, here, here, here
Colorado River and Boulder Canyon project and, here, here
defense of, here
at DWP board meeting, here
Mulholland’s recruitment of, here
Record endorsement of, here
Scattergood Memorandum, here, here, here, here
SCE. See Southern California Edison
schist, here, here, here, here, here, here, here
Schuyler, Philip, here
Security National Bank, restitution payments through, here
Sedgwick, Allan E., here, here
Sellers, J. Clark, here, here, here
Sespe formation, here
Sexton, Perry, here, here, here, here, here
Shasta Dam, here
Shaw, Thomas, here
Sheffield Dam, here
Sherman, Moses H., here, here
Sherman Way, here
“Sick Rush” to California, here, here
Siebert, William, here
Sierra snowpack, here, here, here
Silvey, Henry (Ray), here, here, here, here
Six Flags Magic Mountain, here
Small, Cecilia, here, here, here, here, here
Smith, Chester, here, here, here, here
Smith, William, here
Socialist Labor party, here, here
soil mechanics, here
Sokol, Joe, here
Sonoratown neighborhood of early Los Angeles, here
Southern California Country (McWilliams), here
Southern California Edison (SCE)
Big Creek powerplant, here
BPL’s competition with, here, here, here
Colorado River and Boulder Canyon project and, here, here
compensation for death and injury, here
expansion of, here
Finkle and, here
flood damage, victims, and survivors, here, here, here, here, here, here, here
Kemp construction camp, here, here, here, here, here, here, here
opposition to DWP from, here, here
Outland’s investigation and, here, here
powerline severed, here
Saugus substation, here, here, here, here
Southern California Quarterly, here
Southern California Telephone Company, here
Southern Pacific Railroad, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here
South Forks Dam, here
Spainhower, Oscar, here, here
Spanish Town, Santa Paula, here
Spann, Katherine, here, here, here
Spence, Robert, here
Spirit of St. Louis, here
Spring Valley Water Company, here
Stanford University, here, here, here
Starbard, Ray, here
Star Film Company, here
Starks, Edward Chapin, here
Steen, Helmer, here, here
Steenblock, L.M., here
Stephens, Jess E., here, here, here, here, here, here, here
Stevens Continuous Water Stage Recorder (Stevens Gauge), here, here, here, here, here, here, here
St. Francis Dam
after disaster, here, here, here
bench marks, here
building of, here, here, here, here, here, here, here
cofferdam, here
collapse of, here, here, here (See also St. Francis flood)
commemoration of disa
ster, here
completed, here, here, here, here
computer analysis of failure of, here, here, here, here
cracks appearing in,(See also concrete, cracks in) here, here, here
description and photos of, here, here, here
design of, here, here, here, here, here, here, here
dynamite threat against, here
east abutment of (See east abutment of St. Francis Dam)
Finkle’s warnings about, here
fragment distribution, here, here, here, here, here
geology of abutments, here
Grunsky’s evaluation of, here
historical amnesia about, here, here, here, here
investigations into failure of, here, here
Jakobsen’s, criticism of, here
largest fragment of, here, here
leaks discovered at, here, here, here, here
missing section of, here, here, here, here
Mulholland’s plans for, here, here, here
Mulholland’s testimony about, here
on night of March here, 1928, here
overflow of, here
San Francisquito Canyon as site for, here, here, here
site in 2015, here
in The Temptress (film), here
west abutment of (See west abutment of St. Francis Dam)
wing dike of (See wing dike of St. Francis Dam)
St. Francis flood
anger and amends after, here
dead zone after, here, here
death and injury claims, here
donations following, here
films about, here, here, here
missing persons inquiries, here
path through San Francisquito Canyon, here
path through Santa Clara River Valley, here, here
poems, ballads, and songs, here, here, here
press coverage of, here, here, here, here, here, here
reconstruction following, here
scour marks left by, here, here, here
speculations about cause of, here
survivors and victims of, here, here
telephone operators during, here, here, here, here
St. Francis Reservoir, here, here, here, here, here
structural dams, here
Sunset Boulevard, here, here
Sweetwater Dam, here
Swing, Phil, here, here
Swing-Johnson Boulder Canyon bill, here, here
Symons, Bill, here, here
Takayanagi, Rynkichi, here, here
Tate, H.L., here, here
Teague, Charles Collins, here, here, here, here, here, here
Teapot Dome scandal, here
The Temptress (film), here
Tennessee Valley Authority, here
Teton Dam, here
Thees, Frank, and family, here, here
The Warning (statue), here
Thomas, E.H. (Elwin), here, here, here
Three Gorges Dam, here
three-spined stickleback fish, here
Tombstone (Block 1)
Bonner and, here
in computer analysis, here, here, here, here
demolition of, here, here, here, here
downstream of, here
in Fisher’s film, here
fragments piled beneath, here
Grunsky’s ladder in, here, here, here
images of, here, here
on morning after flood, here
Rogers’s investigation and, here
survival and movement of, here, here, here, here, here
as tourist destination, here, here
Torres, Jesus, and family, here, here
Towne, Robert, here
Tozier’s Drug Store, (Santa Paula), here
triangulation, here, here, here, here, here
tufa, here, here, here, here
UCLA, here, here
Union Oil Company, here, here, here
United States dams
in Arizona, here, here, here
Colorado River and, here, here, here
constructed by Bureau of Reclamation, here
in Idaho, here
inspections of, here
in New York, here
in Oregon and Washington, here
in Pennsylvania, here
safety of, here, here, here, here
Universal City, California, here
Universal Studios, here, here
University of California, Berkeley, here, here, here, here, here, here
uplift (or upthrust)
Coroner’s Inquest discussion of, here
dam failure and, here, here, here
Grunsky and, here, here
Hoover dam design and, here
Mulholland dam and, here
Upper San Fernando Dam, here
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, here
U.S. Department of the Interior, here
U.S. Forest Service, here
U.S. Reclamation Service/Bureau of Reclamation
Colorado River and Boulder Canyon project and, here, here, here, here
dam projects of, here, here
Lippincott and, here
Owens Valley and, here, here, here, here
Vajont Dam, (Italy), here
Valencia, California, here
Van Norman, Harvey
after disaster, here, here, here
California Governor’s Commission and, here
dam break and, here
leak examination by, here, here, here, here, here, here
Mulholland’s mentorship of, here
as Mulholland’s replacement, here
Mulholland’s trip to dam with, here, here
orders given at Powerhouse here, here, here
percolation test and, here
in Los Angeles Record poem, here
Vásquez, Tiburcio, here
Vasquez formation, here
Vejar, George, here, here, here, here
Venice neighborhood in Los Angeles, here
Venice, Italy, here
Ventura, California, here, here, here, here, here, here
Ventura County, California
Citizens Committee in, here, here
Cryer and business leaders of, here
death and injury claims, here, here, here, here
inquest in, here
Joint Restoration Committee and, here, here, here, here
Mexican-American population in, here
population in, here
reaction to disaster in, here
C.C. Teague, leadership in, here
Ventura County Historical Society, here
Ventura Free Press, here
Ventura Star, here, here
Villa, Filipe, and “proclamation” by here
Wallace, Carl, here
Wall Street Journal, here
Waltz, Chester, here
Ware, Ralph, here
Washington Times, here
water-main breaks, here
water rights law (California), here
Waters of Death (film), here
Watterson, George, here, here, here
Watterson, William, here
Watterson brothers (Mark and Wilfred)
arrest of, here
bank closings by, here
as Owens River Valley activists, here, here, here, here, here
in San Quentin, here, here, here
Wegmann, Edward, here
Weid Canyon Dam. See Mulholland Dam
West, Nathanael, here
west abutment of St. Francis Dam
during collapse, here, here, here, here
conglomerate on, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here
jurors’ inspection of, here
Mulholland and Van Norman’s inspection of, here, here
Rogers’s focus on geology of, here
speculated as source of collapse, here, here, here
water leaking from, here, here, here
wing dik
e remains on, here, here
Western Construction News, here, here
White, Leslie T., here, here
Whittier College, here
Wiggins, Frank, here
Wiley, Andrew Jackson, here, here
Wilkman, Nancy, here, here
Willard Bridge, here, here
William Mulholland: A Forgotten Forefather, here
William Mulholland Memorial Fountain
completion, here
dynamite attack against, here
Willis, Bailey, here, here, here, here
Wilshire, Gaylord, here
Wilshire Boulevard (Los Angeles), here
wing dike of St. Francis Dam
bench mark on, here
described, here, here
remains of, here, here
size of dam including, here
snapped clean, here, here, here
Wood, Harry O., here, here
World Power Conference, here
Wright, Harry, here
Yangtze River, here
Yaw, Ellen Beach, here
Young, C.C. (Clement Calhoun), here, here, here, here
Zanja Madre (Mother Ditch), here, here, here, here
Zanjero, here, here, here
A NOTE ON THE AUTHOR
Jon Wilkman is a veteran documentary film writer, director, producer, and nonfiction author. His work has appeared on CBS, ABC, NBC, PBS, HBO, and the History Channel and has been honored with national and international awards. His seven-hour series Moguls and Movie Stars: A History of Hollywood, which aired on Turner Classic Movies, was named one of the top ten television programs of the year by the New York Daily News and the Wall Street Journal and was nominated for three Emmy Awards, including best writing. Wilkman is also the author of Black Americans: From Colonial Days to the Present, and with his late wife, Nancy, Picturing Los Angeles and Los Angeles: A Pictorial Celebration. He is a former president of the International Documentary Association and an Emeritus Member of the Board of Directors of the Historical Society of Southern California. Currently at work on a documentary about the St. Francis Dam disaster, Wilkman lives in Los Angeles.
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