A Hazy Yellow Feeling
I had an uncle named Tom. An aunt named Robbie. Four cousins I never really got to know. In 1972, they were killed when a bomb destroyed a passenger jet over Vietnam.
When I tell people this, they half don't believe me. I suppose that's fine. Our family just kind of grew up with it.
A Hazy Yellow Feeling is their story. And ours. For what it's worth.
Episodes
7 episodes
Ep1-The Summer of Less Than
In the summer of 1972 a bomb destroyed a commercial jet over Vietnam. Six members of one Wisconsin family were killed.I was seven years old. I grew up in the shadow of it without ever fully understanding what I was living inside.T...
Ep 2-The Long Goodbye: The Kenny Family, before.
Before I tell you what happened to them, I want to spend some time letting them be alive again.A son who built a stone wall by the lake and never finished it. A CEO who talked the board into buying a company plane. A mother who kept the ...
Ep 3-Man Plans. God Laughs.
Bangkok, June 1972. A twenty-nine-year-old lieutenant in the Royal Thai Police walks his fiancée and his seven-year-old daughter onto a Cathay Pacific flight. He makes sure they're seated over the wing. He seats them, and gets off the plane.
Ep 4-Two And Half Minutes
June 15th, 1972. Twenty-nine thousand feet. Lunch coming down the aisle.It wasn’t quick. The plane came apart and it fell. And most of them were alive for what came next.It took two and a half minutes to reach the ground.
Ep 6-Carry On
A Field Marshal, his son, and his son's father-in-law — holding the army and the government in the same fist. History calls them the Three Tyrants.When Somchai was arrested, one of them told reporters the punishment should be execution b...