The scenes of devastation were horrendous when the skywalks of Kansas City’s Hyatt Regency Hotel came crashing down on the crowd below on July 17, 1981. Oversights in the construction of the two ...

Former Kansas City Mayor Richard L. “Dick” Berkley, who led Kansas City during the 1980s as the city’s first Jewish mayor and oversaw its response to the fatal Hyatt Regency walkway collapse, died ...

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