In 1916, a great white shark attacked five people near the Jersey Shore. Library of Congress In the summer of 1916, panic struck the Jersey Shore. A shark sunk its teeth into Charles Vansant, the ...

The year 1916 was a fantastic summer on the Jersey Shore, if you liked the threats of war, polio, and a deadly attacker stalking the waterways. That was the summer that a series of strange, violent ...

Spielberg’s thriller “Jaws” came out in 1975. I couldn’t believe it when I read that in Adam Clark’s epic shark tale. Before moving to New Jersey, I lived near the beach in Southern California, where ...

Few films have ever matched the primal terror of Jaws. Steven Spielberg’s 1975 masterpiece redefined blockbuster filmmaking and embedded the shark as one of pop ...