The Very Worst Thing (2010)

On February 28 1958 the community of Floyd County Kentucky experienced one of the greatest tragedies imaginable when a school bus carrying 48 students careened over an embankment and plunged into the Big Sandy River Miraculously 22 children survived by swimming to shore the rest of the students and their driver werent so fortunate Over 50 years later filmmaker Michael Crisp reflects on the accident that broke Americas heart by speaking with crash survivor Martha Burchett Marsh and numerous other locals whose lives were forever affected by this heartbreaking catastrophe