The Queen Mary

This guide to the Queen Mary in Long Beach opens in the ship's engine room at 3:55am in July 1966, when an eighteen-year-old worker named John Pedder was found pinned by a watertight door that had closed as he passed through it. It traces the ship's earlier decades ferrying royalty, refugees and troops across the Atlantic before she was permanently docked in Long Beach in 1967. You'll hear the competing stories crewmates told about why Pedder was near door thirteen that night. Stand in Shaft Alley, the narrow passage where it happened, as you listen.