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According to the blog post authored by OHS Archivist for Photography and Moving Images Matthew Cowan: The Oregon Historical Society has also just published a post on its blog, Dear Oregon, highlighting newly digitized footage of the explosion that is now available on OHS Digital Collections. Copies of Linnman’s book, The Exploding Whale and Other Remarkable Stories from the Evening News, are available for purchase from the OHS Museum Store.

Exploding whale free#

This program is free and open to the public to register in advance, visit ohs.org/events. Through this conversation, they will discuss how this strange event blasted both blubber, and their careers, skyward. On the 50th anniversary of the “ Florence Whale Explosion,” the Oregon Historical Society will commemorate one of the more bizarre moments in the state’s history with a live virtual conversation between Linnman, Brazil, and OHS Executive Director Kerry Tymchuk this Thursday, Nov. Linnman and cameraman Doug Brazil captured the explosion on film from about a quarter of a mile away - and decades later, it became a viral internet hit, with an estimated 350 million views.

There, Oregon State Highway Department crews hauled boxes of explosives to the remains of a beached sperm whale, with the hope that the ocean and scavengers would clean up the pieces. 12, 1970, KATU-TV reporter Paul Linnman described “a stinking whale of a problem” on the coast near Florence. Footage of bizarre story that went viral in internet era is newly digitized