A military plane was carrying the weapons when it exploded over a rural area, killing three people and sending the bombs plunging toward the ground Jan. 24, 1961. The “safety interlocks on the weapons ...

My mother was praying. She thought it was the End of Times.” Three of the eight crew members died when the B-52G Stratofortress bomber crashed about 10 miles from Goldsboro, southeast of Raleigh ...