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Episode Nineteen | Victoria Snelgrove: No Triumph, All Tragedy, Boston, Massachusetts


On Oct 20, 2004, the Red Sox clinched the championship and were headed to the World Series after a tense series against the New York Yankees - our bitter rivals. We hadn’t won in 86 years thus perpetuating the "Curse of the Bambino". Despite the game being played in New York, people from all around flooded into the streets and headed to Fenway Park. What should have been a grand celebration turned tragic when an unprepared police department pulled out riot gear to fend off swarms of revelers. A Boston police officer shot an innocent bystander - 21-year-old Emerson College student, Victoria Snelgrove - in the face.


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Source Links:

Riot images

https://www.mic.com/articles/116680/11-stunning-images-highlight-the-double-standard-of-reactions-to-riots-like-baltimore


Cops Across U.S. Are Using 'Less-Lethal' Weapons. In Boston In 2004, A Woman Was Killed With One


https://www.wbur.org/news/2020/06/10/rubber-bullets-protesters-victoria-snelgrove-boston



Archived Student Remembered As A Bright, Budding Journalist Raja Mishra and Julie Polovina, Boston Globe

https://www-proquest-com.ezproxy.bpl.org/bostonglobe/docview/404918575/44C7296B94134E10PQ/2?accountid=9675


Video Of Victim Comforts, Pains As Family Still Grapples With Loss

Megan Tench, Boston Globe May 3, 2005

Https://Www-proquest-com.Ezproxy.Bpl.Org/Bostonglobe/Docview/404964621/306a7ae35e8d4fd6pq/2?Accountid=9675


Victoria E. Snelgrove, 21; Had Passion For Journalism Emma Stickgold, Boston Globe; Oct 25 2004

Https://Www-proquest-com.Ezproxy.Bpl.Org/Bostonglobe/Docview/404929761/306a7ae35e8d4fd6pq/1?Accountid=9675


Commission Report: Victoria Snelgrove https://web.archive.org/web/20110610210149/http://www.cityofboston.gov/police/pdfs/report.pdf

State Findings In Victoria Snelgrove case

https://web.archive.org/web/20051226021746/http://www.mass.gov/da/suffolk/docs/091205.html


Boston Globe - Snelgrove panel rips police

Faulty planning, lack of judgment in effort to control crowd found

http://archive.boston.com/sports/baseball/redsox/articles/2005/05/26/snelgrove_panel_rips_police



Links


Torie Fund - https://www.victoriasnelgrove.com


WBUR - Ten Years After: Victoria Snelgrove

https://www.wbur.org/news/2014/10/21/victoria-snelgrove-anniversary


Boston Herald - The Snelgroves share memories of Torie 9 years later

https://www.bostonherald.com/2013/10/18/heslam-snelgroves-share-memories-of-torie-nine-years-after-tragedy

Tragedy in Boston: The impact projectile death of Victoria Snelgrove

https://www.police1.com/police-products/less-lethal/projectiles-launchers/articles/emtragedy-in-bostonem-the-impact-projectile-death-of-victoria-snelgrove-pOAEJHNfvAivymNj/


New York Times - Bill Buckner Obituary https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/27/obituaries/bill-buckner-all-star-shadowed-by-world-series-error-dies-at-69.html


Fox Sports - 30 years after Buckner’s error extending the curse

https://www.foxsports.com/stories/mlb/30-years-ago-today-bill-buckners-error-extended-the-red-sox-curse


Red Sox

https://mentalitch.com/the-history-of-the-boston-red-sox/

https://www.si.com/mlb/2018/10/20/boston-red-sox-world-series-history-wins-record

https://www.britannica.com/topic/Boston-Red-Sox


Mayor Kim Janey https://mayorjaney.com



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