Liz is the presenter of the Ben Franklin’s World podcast, the Founding Director of Colonial Williamsburg Innovation Studios.
At the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, and an award-winning early American historian. She graciously consented to elaborate on how history buffs might look for the unsung tales of the past.
This is retired Armenian swimmer Shavarsh Karapetyan. He had just finished a 26-kilometer (16-mile) run in 1976 when he heard a tremendous collision.
A trolleybus had plunged into a reservoir after losing control. It had sunk to a depth of 10 meters (33 feet) and was 25 meters (82 feet) offshore.
Despite having no vision due to the silt rising from the bottom, Karapetyan dove right into the sewage-infested waters and used his legs to kick the trolleybus’s rear glass.
