Alex Burkholder was born and raised in Chicago. He received a Master Degree in Journalism from Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois.During his younger years Alex rode on Chicago Fire Department apparatus and helped fight fires. Alex began his forty-six-year career in journalism with Chicago’s Lerner Newspapers in 1962. Next he moved to WGN Radio and Television News for twenty-one years. That experience was followed by twenty-four years at ABC7 Chicago mainly as an investigative producer and recipient of an Emmy Award. He is a founding member of the Fire Museum of Greater Chicago. Alex and his wife, Barbara, reside in... Read More
Death of the Angels
November 11, 2018
Paperback
$20.00
The story of the tragic blaze at Our Lady of the Angels School in 1958.
Summary
In “Death of the Angels” we see the stories, many for the first time, of students who were lucky to survive one of the nation’s most deadly school fires. Their words, along with those of heroic firemen and others, were recorded more than forty years ago.
A total of ninety-two students and three nuns died as a result of the fire that frigid day December 1st, 1958 at Our Lady of the Angels School on Chicago’s West Side. A fire that occurred only minutes before the end of the school day.
Now sixty-years since the tragic blaze, the author takes a fresh look at who was responsible for the deaths and whether justice was served. Also the author reports new revelations regarding the fire.