Kansas City Hyatt Regency Collapse Remembered
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KANSAS CITY, MO (KCTV/AP) - Kansas City, Missouri, on Saturday marked the 40th anniversary of one of its greatest tragedies with a release of white doves. About 100 people gathered at the Skywalk Memorial Plaza to remember the 114 people killed when disaster struck the Hyatt Regency Hotel on July 17, 1981.
Forty years ago, Lynn Driggers was getting ready to go out to dinner with her husband when she got the call. The Hyatt Regency, she was told, had collapsed. Driggers worked as a nurse at St. Mary s Hospital, then located near the site at 28th Street and Main, and she d been summoned to work to perform triage.