Kansas City Hyatt Skywalk Collapse Morality Tale Examined

Kansas City's top faith writer offers his perspective on a tragedy that defined this cowtown.

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"What strikes me all these years later about that catastrophe -- in which 114 people died and 200 more were injured -- is that ethical questions are at the heart of the story. Such moral questions were at the core of the failure of those who designed and built the skywalks to make sure that what they were constructing was safe and not fatally flawed.

"Time and again, people who should have noticed that the skywalks inevitably would come crashing down let things go by . . ."

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Forty years later, a hard lesson in ethical behavior

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