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VAULT - 1960S

Six Rapid City cheerleaders died along with three adults, including a father who piloted the plane, as they returned from a state basketball tournament
The dozen-plus missing persons cases we profiled came from incidents over nearly a century, from 1938 to 2012.
Cool Whip on your favorite dessert? Thank William A. Mitchell, born in Raymond, Minnesota, for his prolific career inventing convenience foods we enjoy
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Once home to the deadliest weapons on the planet, former silo, Cold War launch facility stands as reminder of dangerous times.

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Carol Thompson was brutally attacked in her St. Paul home on March 6, 1963. Her husband T. Eugene Thompson would eventually be convicted of conspiring in the first-degree murder gone wrong.
The Twin Cities show was part of the Beatles’ 1965 concert tour, which had opened a week earlier at Shea Stadium in New York.
Warren Magnuson was the high school team captain and later hobnobbed with U.S. presidents, dated movie stars and quietly became one of the most powerful men in the country.
Although initially convicted of first-degree manslaughter Loyal Lundstrom's case was overturned 18 months later by the Minnesota Supreme Court. But that wasn't the end of the story.
Where did Al Capone and other mobsters hunker down in in the Upper Midwest? Who was 'Creepy' Karpis? What happened in the Bohn kidnapping? All these stories and more in Best of The Vault 2022.
Eighteen miles northwest of Bemidji, in the backwoods of Buzzle Township, is Pinewood — once an operative logging camp filled with lumberjacks and early settlers. Throughout its history, this once lively community has become a place of unsolved mysteries, two bank robberies, a bizarre train derailment and multiple wildfires.
A look back at the Minnesotan who inspired more than one of his songs and how the state's cold spring inspired another.
The current debate over the daylight-saving time echoes early battles in Minnesota against clock shift mandates, amid a mishmash of local rules.
Minnesota has its share of extreme weather: the Halloween blizzard of 1991, The Red River flooding of 1997, the Twin Cities tornado outbreak of 1965, the Comfrey-St. Peter tornado outbreak in 1998 and the 1999 'Boundary Waters Blowdown.'
John Anglin claimed he lived in Minot and Fargo after the most famous prison escape in U.S. History. Age progression software is making it easier to know if you might have run into him.
This year marks the 60th anniversary of the most famous prison break in history.  Evidence is now piling up that the three men survived and one even lived in Fargo.

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