'The legend lives on': Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald still resonates 50 years later
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FILE - The Fitzgerald in a 1959 file photo, with a crew of 28 to 30 men, was carrying a load of 26,216 tons of taconite pellets. (AP Photo, file)Deb Felder holds up a picture of her father who died on the Edmund Fitzgerald Monday, Oct. 20, 2025, in her home in Nashotah, Wis. (AP Photo/Morry Gash)FILE - Two U.S. Coast Guardsmen move a life raft from the freighter Edmund Fitzgerald across the dock in Sault Ste. Marie, Mich. Nov. 11, 1975, after the raft was plucked from Whitefish Bay by the freighter Roger Blough, a ship assisting in the search for the missing Edmund Fitzgerald, which sunk on Nov. 10, 1975, in Lake Superior. (AP photo/JCH, file)Frederick Stonehouse, whose 1977 book "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" was the first written on the famous ship, discusses the impact of the disaster 50 years later on Oct. 25, 2025, in Marquette, Mich. (AP Photo/Scott Bauer)
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FILE - The Fitzgerald in a 1959 file photo, with a crew of 28 to 30 men, was carrying a load of 26,216 tons of taconite pellets. (AP Photo, file)