Halifax Explosion survivors heard on tapes lost for decades

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During a recent move, Rick Howe spotted a cassette tape he hadn't seen in years. When he slid it into his vintage Marantz recorder, the sounds carried him back half a century — and the voices took him back more than 100 years.

Howe was a cub reporter when he moved to Halifax in 1978. He was a radio news junkie, so when CJCH host Dave Wright opened his Hotline show to people who'd survived the Halifax Explosion, he started recording.

"It ended up with three hours of riveting historical context. People who were actually there, experiencing it as it happened and telling us what was going on," Howe says.

"And these are just average people. These aren't your fire chiefs, or police chiefs, or your mayors. These are just everyday Nova Scotians who were going about their everyday business when this calamity hit. "

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An uncle of mine was in the explosion as a young child. He stuttered from that day on.