Friday, November 13, 2009
Marshall University Memorial Set
During a ceremony at noon Saturday, November 14th., the Marshall University Memorial Fountain will be turned off for the winter in observance of the 39th. anniversary of the November 14, 1970 plane crash which took the lives of 75 victims, including coaches, staff, supporters and flight crew, while killing most of Marshall's football team. As the team was returning from a loss to East Carolina, the plane crashed near the Tri-State Airport. A memorial service will take place at Joan C. Edwards Stadium before the 4:30 P.M. kickoff against Southern Mississippi. The keynote speaker will be Joe Gillette, a 1973 Marshall graduate who would have been a member of the 1970 team had he not suffered a severe shoulder injury in the summer of 1969.
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