Learn while you're at home with Plainly Difficult! The Baldwin Hills disaster was a catastrophic dam failure that occurred on December 14, 1963, in the Baldwin Hills neighbourhood of South Los Angeles. The disaster was caught live on TV and would show the world the fascinating potential horror that can be inflicted on a community. The dam project was headed by Ralph Proctor who had worked under the former Civil engineer Mulholland during the St Francis dam design and construction. Want to become a channel member?null Paypal Donate Link: https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=KC293ZJVG2VZG&source=url Help the Channel Grow Like, Comment & Subscribe! Subscribe Here: null. Equipment used in this video: Rode NTG3, Audient ID4, MacBook Pro 16, Hitfilm, Garage Band Check out My Twitter: https://twitter.com/Plainly_D Check out these other great channels: null null. null https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCGHDQtN_vzFYJaq_Fx1eikg Sources: https://pubs.usgs.gov/pp/0882/report.pdf https://scholarsmine.mst.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1098&context=icchge https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/216194272.pdf https://calisphere.org/item/bd99eb28a9793c1bd83d55aff231940b/ http://www.saveballona.org/gasoilfields/Lesson-BHDamGC.pdf By Vodkamike3 - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=83963416 By WaterArchives.org from Sacramento, California, USA - [IDAHO-L-0010] Teton Dam Flood - Newdale, CC BY-SA 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=41039960