Eleven Minutes

Anatomy of a Plane Crash . . . A few minutes past 7:00 pm., the evening of Nov. 1, 1955, a young man’s fury at having been placed in an orphanage as a child exploded in the night sky over a northern Colorado beet field. As 25 sticks of dynamite erupted in the rear baggage compartment of a DC-6B airliner en route to Portland, Oregon, 44 lives were destroyed instantly in the night sky. Eleven Minutes offers the first and only in-depth account of the crime itself, but also of the perpetrator's murder trial - a trial which posed many challenges not only to the American justice system, but to justice itself.