The White Mile Trial by Cecil Kuhne (.ePUB)
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The White Mile Trial: A River Rafting Tragedy and the Courtroom Justice That Followed by Cecil Kuhne
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Overview: In a lifetime of professional risk-taking, they had climbed to the summit of corporate marketing, earning themselves dazzling views down the glass-and-steel canyons of New York, Chicago and Los Angeles.
In summer 1987, 11 members of this informal fraternity of friends and high-powered business acquaintances attended an annual corporate retreat, traveling to a popular stretch of white-water rapids in the wilds of British Columbia. As the corporate world soon learned, only six survived a trip that was to have been “something very peaceful, with outdoor activity and a little excitement,” as one of the survivors said.
Following the tragedy was a dramatic two-week trial, where the stories of survivors and the opinions of the experts were both riveting and inconsistent. The jury awarded the plaintiff a million dollars, a fraction of what she had requested, but to many it was an extravagant amount for a lawsuit involving an experienced guide with a perfect safety record who had — obtained releases of liability before the trip — been belittled and pressured, by a domineering advertising executive, into going against his better judgement.
Outside of courtroom updates covered by newspapers and in the trades, HBO’s loosely-adapted (Golden Globes-nominated) TV-movie: White Mile (1994) — staring Alan Alda and Robert Loggia — was the only record commemorating this 1980s corporate America catastrophe (until now).
Genre: Non-Fiction > Biography > True Crime
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