SFGate

Without the song, 'The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald' may have been largely forgotten

NASHOTAH, Wis. (AP) — Without Gordon Lightfoot's song, the Edmund Fitzgerald could have faded from memory along with the names of the roughly 6,500 other ships that went down in the Great Lakes before ...
Badger Herald

Edmund Fitzgerald honored, remembered on 50th anniversary

Fifty years ago, the S.S. Edmund Fitzgerald, along with the crew of 29 men, was lost on Lake Superior. The ship notoriously sank Nov. 10, 1975, an event that has since been popularized by Gordon ...
CBS News 8

50 years later, the sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald lives on in fascination with the maritime disaster

WASHINGTON D.C., DC — Monday is the 50th anniversary of the sinking of the S.S. Edmund Fitzgerald in Lake Superior, marking a half-century of fascination with one of the most infamous nautical ...
10TV.com

Retired AP reporter helped cement the legend of the wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald

LANSING, Mich.(AP) — Associated Press reporter Harry Atkins was far from Lake Superior on Nov. 10, 1975, “when the gales of November came early." But his news coverage the following day of the ...