DULUTH — TV anchor Dennis Anderson was preparing for the 10 p.m. news when he received a call asking about a 729-foot freighter that had gone down in Lake Superior. He realized he was going to have to cut into Monday Night Football and tell viewers that 29 men had died.

Meanwhile, John Crowley was at a Duluth bar with some Coast Guard shipmates when they were all called back to their cutter — immediately.

This fourth episode of the News Tribune's five-part podcast covers the immediate aftermath of the wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald. Listeners will hear Anderson’s and Crowley’s accounts of that terrible night, and learn why the official investigation into the wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald became highly controversial.

Listen to the complete audio here, or find "Edmund Fitzgerald: 50 Year

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