On November 29, 1988, six Kansas City Fire Fighters from KCFD Pumper 30 and KCFD Pumper 41 started their shift and would never return home. Overnight before the end of their shift they would perish from a tragic explosion. #NeverForgotten
— KCFD (@KCMOFireDept) November 29, 2020
The Kansas City Firefighters Case and the Railroading of the Marlborough Five
J. Patrick O'Connor
On the night of November 29, 1988, near the impoverished Marlborough neighborhood in south Kansas City, an explosion at a construction site killed six of the city’s firefighters. It was a clear case of arson, and five people from Marlborough were duly convicted of the crime. But for veteran crime writer and crusading editor J. Patrick O’Connor, the facts—or a lack of them—didn’t add up. Justice on Fire is OConnor’s detailed account of the terrible explosion that led to the firefighters’ deaths and the terrible injustice that followed. Available at KU Press and Amazon
