Category 5: The Story of Camille, Lessons Unlearned from America's Most Violent Hurricane

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271 Index Acadiana (LA), 23–25 advisory, hurricane, 54–55, 63, 70–71, 82–83, 91–92 aerial reconnaissance, 55, 64–65, 90–91 Alamo Victory (ship), 128–29 Alligator Point (LA), 99–100, 118, 134 Anderson, William C., 57–58 Andrew, Hurricane, 154, 224 anemometer, 108, 122 Apalachicola (FL), 82, 150 Apollo 11, 76 Army Corps of Engineers (USACE), 28, 50, 73, 89–90, 104, 109, 127, 138, 148–49, 151, 212 Atchafalaya River, 26, 31 Audrey, Hurricane, 13–22, 26, 53, 84, 89 Balch, Jackson, 143–47, 195 Bangladesh, 66 Barnett, Ross, 44, 77–78, 142, 241 Barranco, Charles Edward, 4, 156–58 Bayh, Birch, 146 Bay St. Louis (MS), 70, 144 Beaulieu (MS), 147 Beauvior (MS), 148 Bengal, Bay of, 66 Betsy, Hurricane, 47–50, 78–79, 87, 93, 106, 111, 118, 136 Beulah, Hurricane, 61 Bielan, Ed, 95, 124–25 Bienville, Jeanne Baptiste, 28 Bilbo, Theodore, 77 Biloxi Beach (MS), 140–42, 241, 257 Borden Inc., 2, 142 Borgne, Lake (LA), 99, 117, 134–35 Branch Pilots Association, 103–4 Braun, Werner von, 144–46 Broadwater Beach Marina, 99 Broussard, Florence, 17–20 Broussard, Stephen Sr., 17–20 Brown v. Board of Education, 39, 219 Bryant, Tinker, 11, 168–69 Buffalo (boat), 104–8, 136, 242 bulletin, hurricane. See advisory, hurricane Burrwood (LA), 104 CBS (television network), 3, 57 CORE. See Congress of Racial Equality Caernarvon (LA), 31 Cajuns, 23–25, 40 Cameron (LA), 15, 25, 89 Cameron Parish, 16, 21–22 Camp Shelby (MS), 220 Carter, Jimmy, 234 Chalmette (LA), 49–50 Charles, Lake (LA), 25 Charleston (ship), 151 Chef Menteur Pass (LA), 99 cheniere (de‹nition), 16 Cheniere Caminada, 12–13, 89 Christenberry, Judge, 43 Church of the Redeemer (Biloxi), 119 City of Pensacola (barge), 151 civil defense, 79–80, 89–90, 179–80 Civil Defense, Virginia Of‹ce of, 179–80, 182, 190, 203–4, 244 Clark, Robert Lee, 90 Coast Guard, 99, 104, 134–35, 213 Cold War, 166, 179, 262 computer models, 65–66 Conner, Henry, 170–71, 204 Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), 40 Corpus Christi (TX), 55–56 Cristobal (ship), 104, 110–11, 121 Croatians, 44, 105, 137 Cronkite, Walter, 3–4, 156, 209 DHS. See Homeland Security, See Homeland Security, Department of Dauphin Island (AL), 150 Davis, Cecil, 170–71, 181–82 Davis Creek (VA), 172, 174, 182–84, 189, 191 Davis, Jefferson, 141, 148 Dedeaux, Curtis, 141 De La Beckwith, Byron, 77, 241 Delacroix Island (LA), 92–93, 118 Department of Homeland Security. See Homeland Security, Department of De Vries, Edith, 233 Dixie White House, 147, 241 Dole, Bob, 213 Dolores (boat), 92–93 Duckworth, Ben, 85–86, 94–96, 115–16, 123–27, 130–34, 158, 239–40, 198–201 Duckworth, Hubert, 1–6, 156–58 Duckworth, Josephine, 1–4, 198 Duke, David, 33 Duncan, Bill, 4, 156–58 Duncan, Marian, 4 Durr, Ronald, 99–100, 117–18, 134–35 Durrschmidt, Greg, 81, 98–99, 121 Dussel, Charles, 99, 117–18 Eastland, James, 40 Edna, Hurricane, 57–58 Edwards, Edwin, 33 Eisenhower, Dwight, 58–59, 141 election fraud, 37, 40 Ellington Air Force Base (TX), 91 emergency plan, lack of, 87–88 Emergency Preparedness, Of‹ce of, 214 Embrey, Austin, 210 evacuation, 31, 62–63, 96–97, 227; in Mississippi, 74, 80–81, 85–86, 94; in Plaquemines Parish (LA), 46, 73 Evers, Medgar, 141 eye, hurricane, 58, 60, 124 FBI. See Federal Bureau of Investigation FCC. See Federal Communications Commission Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), 44, 243 Federal Communications Commission (FCC), 166, 167 FEMA. See Federal Emergency Management Agency, 215, 234, 237 Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), 215, 234, 237 Fiesta Club (MS), 81 ‹re ants, 9, 197, 213 ›ood of 1927, 30–31, 36, 38 Flossie, Hurricane, 38 forecast, hurricane. See advisory Fort Jackson (LA), 106–7, 137 Fort St. Philip (LA), 41 Fort Walton (FL), 63–64, 70, 147 Freedom Train, 77 Galveston (TX), disaster, 13, 45, 56 Gamble, James, 181, 204 gambling, 240 Gannon, Mike, 6 Garden Island (LA), 108 Gerlach, Mary Ann, 6–8, 124, 238–39 Gladys, Hurricane, 54 Goad, Robert, 214 Godwin, Mills, 206–8, 216, 218, 244 Gomez, Camille, 111–14 Index 272 Governor’s Emergency Council (MS), 221 Grand Isle (LA), 12, 25, 82, 89 Green, Theodore, 58 Guice, Julia, 79–81 Guice, Wade, 79–81, 83 Gulf Coast (MS), map, 75 Gulfport Veterans Hospital (MS), 75 Gulfside Assembly (MS), 74 HUD. See Housing and...