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Author discusses Edmund Fitzgerald ship 50 years after its sinking

FILE - The Fitzgerald in a 1959 file photo, with a crew of 28 to 30 men, was carrying a load of 26,216 tons of taconite pellets.
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FILE - The Fitzgerald in a 1959 file photo, with a crew of 28 to 30 men, was carrying a load of 26,216 tons of taconite pellets.

The Great Lakes are vast and vital shipping lanes, moving essential goods across North America.

From the late 1950s through 1975,no freighter set more records or earned more respect than the Edmund Fitzgerald, the largest and most deluxe cargo ship of its day.

Fifty years ago, it sank in a ferocious storm, its final journey and crew – half from Ohio -- immortalized in an unforgettable Gordon Lightfoot song.

A new book sheds light on the wreck, the loved ones left behind and the sweeping history of the largest lakes in the world.

We’re talking today with New York Times best-selling author John U. Bacon about his new book, The Gales of November: The Untold Story of the Edmund Fitzgerald.

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