Kind of guy who you think doesn't like you at first, but over time you probably grew love the stubborn old man. I feel that way just watching film of him! RIP sir
I was 7 years old when Mount St. Helens erupted. The very day that the mountain erupted, our family was moving from Snohomish Washington to Springfield Oregon. I remember the ash cloud passing over us and blocking out the sun. I remember my mom telling our dad to stop the car so she could go collect some of the ash from the ground. My dad told me years later that he had met Mr. Truman.
I remember the KOMO News guy who took camera footage under the ash even though he thought he wasn't going to make it. Mr. Truman was as grumpy as I remember! A man of his word.
I remember seeing him on the news. I was 15 at the time. I liked him then. Tough bugger. Yeah the mountain took him but he went on his own terms. I remember we heard the mountain firing off in Anacortes
That's actually not filmed. That was someone who was there that day taking pictures of the mountain. He had just got done and was leaving when it started to erupt so he grabbed his camera and snapped several pics of it. He did a great job capturing it, that's for sure. They also did a great job splicing it together to look like a film. What can you say...technology 🤔.
I remember seeing him on the news a week or two before the eruption. 44 years ago. we live in a completely different world now. nothing is the same as it was then.
Remembered this when that happened. Was a kid back in the 80s. Seeing it all over the news. Pretty wild to see. Everything in its path gone in seconds.. it's all growing back now. Just a different landscape.
Great little movie, I stood in the doorway in Portland, Or as the house shook. Of course we were all following the story of the man on the mountain. Day turned to night as the ash came down for days. I wore a mask and goggles to stay safe as I road my bicycle to the Portland Museum Art School. I will never forget that day and the days that followed.
It was an earthquake that triggered the eruption. It was bound to have some kind of event. But that earthquake caused a massive landslide and the whole side of the mountain blew out. I was to far south and only 5 to remember the shaking. But I do remember the ash.
I’m 59 years old and I remember as a child we used to go there pretty regularly I remember jumping into the icy cold lake, just wanted to feel how cold it really was ,knowing that the water from the lake came directly from the mountain I decided I wanted to jump in an my family laughed at me and I tell you as fast as I jumped in I was out just as fast that was the coldest I’ve ever felt
I was a kid and we were living near Anacortes when the mountain popped. I remember goofing around in my room then all of a sudden the whole house shook with one big BANG. Woke the old man up who thought I was jumping off the bed or something, lol. I feel bad for Harry's kitties. :(
I'd say the worst was one of the other geologist monitoring the eruption. (He literally said "It just got Dave and now it's about to get us". (Radio went silent).
I see that mountain all of the time. It's just crazy how nature took the blow and is reconstructing itself. In many places you can still see the damage though.
I remember back then, some months after the volcano went off, we could go to McDonalds and if you bought a Big Mac, fries and a drink, plus $1.00 more, you got a small plastic container (about 1 cup in size) containing volcanic ash. I still have mine. For all I know they dug a pit to build a new McDonalds restaurant somewhere and used the dirt to fill these cups. But, it does look exactly like the small bottle of ash I grabbed from Clark Air Base when that volcano blew its lid many years ago. I was evacuated after that one.
It's not about "Gotchas". He slowly adjusted his tune if you even cared to listen to his interviews in depth. He went from uninformed. Just like the scientists were, he grew frustrated and saw the mountain he loved change with the bulge and many quakes. Then, he lost his wife and I heard another account that he lost his daughter in a car accident when she was 39. He buried her up there too. He also had 2 divorces too. The man was old and tired and decided to go with the one thing that was his in the world that he fought so hard to build on top of his love for the mountain and said he wouldn't live a week after seeing the devastation and losing his land and life. Sounded like he was on heart medication too. Lay off him with your "gotchas" and "hind sight". You don't know about this situation as much as you think.
@@aaron___6014yup...just because he hadnt seen an eruption in the 50 years of being there he didn't believe it was ever going to.or he didn't think it was going to be as big as it was.in reality the side blew off and targeted him directly.i think mother nature saw a nut nearby and said don't mess with or doubt me.
Harry was such a character. What a wonderful person. He really has not missed much since his passing. In truth the world has went to hell. I have no doubts he would have despised how things are today. 😂 R.I.P. Legend 🙏🏻❤️🕊️
You realize he changed his mind quite a bit actually leading up to the event. He didn't know anymore than the experts at those times. Then, he changed his tune to staying and realizing the risk and didn't care and stayed. I wish they showed his quotes in chronological because, it's easy to rearrange his interviews to make him sound dumb til the end but, that's what happens when people that don't like you have control of your words when you can't even defend yourself because, you're dead. Disgusting.
@coreym162 I don't think he was dumb or stubborn at all. My guessing is he'd lived there for most of his life and he was at peace to die and remain there for eternity if so be it. He went out with his head held high and I'd like think it was instant and any suffering only last a mere second or two. RIP HT, a legend in his own right.
False. Find the Lars Larson interview. He's scared, subdued, wanting to leave. Giving away his cats. He's a broken man, a widower, and alcoholic. The real him. He tells Lars he'll be remembered as a coward if he goes now, but wants to. That's a rare interview with him sober! The press was filming him while he was roaring drunk. All of the prior eruptions in the 1800s were small. In that context - when he made a haughty proclamation, it was mere comedy. Free advertisement for his hotel. When things looked serious, the damned press continued to play earlier comments. They exploited a broken, alcoholic widower still in mourning - reluctant to leave the last thing he and his soulmate built. Other than Lars, they should feel like **** the rest of their lives. If they gave him an out - "we were just joshing, fun and games" smart to leave now...they could have saved him.
God bless Harry. Guys in his 80s and was clear he was willing to take risk by staying. Several people stayed in Centralia PA after being asked to leave, and they didnt all fall into the earth.
Exactly - he was 83 and still had much of his strength. Had he left his home & life of 50 years (also worth to mention his second & most beloved wife was buried on the property) and seen afterwards what became of it, he most likely would have withered away within 1 year - propably even less...
I was in Wisconsin and left right away with a friend and his two teenagers, we walked 7 miles from where we left vans , we got close 😂😅just one of the things I remember about this life.
Just stumbled across this looking for vids about con men religious revivalists. Go figure. Hahaha! One guy on YT has a MSH's playlist with 188 videos on it. This should be one of them! Didn't find this when I was searching back when I was watching them all. It may be easier for the search function to locate this vid if you edited the title by adding a space between "Helens" and "Harry" >> (The Eruption of Mt St HelensHarry Truman David Johnston ORIGINAL MOVIE 39 Years later). Thanks for posting!
I love them ol cogers…grew up around so many I’m used to em and understand why they always seemed like an asshole….you would go if you’d lived through what that man had
You don't know what he could be thinking. He could have regretted his decision to stay. Realizing, since he's done it before, that he could have came back and rebuilt. I'm sure he'd be rebuilding on what looked to be a warzone, though.
I have a container of ash from the eruption that fell in Spokane WA.....my Aunt(God rest her soul) brushed it off their cars......I was in NW ND when this happened and I remember it to this day!
How is it possible that Johnson miscalculated by sitting directly in front of Mt. St. Helen's? According to reports, Johnson moved from his safe zone three miles closer into the blast zone. Ghastly.
You think? I think he rather would died in his sleep and be buried on his land with others carrying on his land. But he might been happy since everything was going to be taken with him.
@vinetacirule8094: My opinion he was definitely up cause old people wake up early. Idk if that’s with every country but in the US old people go to bed around 9pm and wake up around 5am.
I'm sure he was sipping on a coke and rum and was working or Chilling when it all happened. He probably stood in shock, dropping his mug... in awww as it all headed his way
I've always like Harry and how he lived on his own terms. That said, he and some of these others interviewed are a prime example of the dangers of "doing your own research " and deciding you know better than experts. Social media is absolutely filled with the sort of unearned confidence on display here. Luckily Harry didn't have the ability to convince others to stay in harms way due to the lack of up to the second media coverage in 1980.
I have always preferred to let natural selection take its course, it's nature's way of shaking the fleas off its back, we spend too much time trying to protect stupid people, if we remove warning labels the gene pool will eventually clean itself.
And I very much Doubt that he would've tried to influence anybody else's decision to stay or go. He was very clear on the reasons why he was staying. It's where his Life lived🤗🙃
Then they make the movie about this called st Helen's and the sad part about the movie is the actor that played David Johnston was killed not all to long after the movie came out. So sad
this is great stuff because its our states history (a huge event) caught on film so that we get to re-live a liitle bit of what we lived through in the 80's when it happened if you where alive when the mountain erupted and something that can not ever be forgoten in our memories especialy if we love stuff like this and because of the types of people who lived and died on the mountain like truman and the scientist and every one else who got to experience such a historical event
I would like to know if the house of the woman who believed her house was safe was on the north side, and if it was, what she had to say after the eruption.
She was likely financially screwed if her home was up there. People have the right to complain and be concerned about their property they work hard for. It's so easy to judge behind your keyboard behind anonymity. Try working hard for something sometime and then, sing the same tune.
You are just looking at a disorganized chronology without full context or reason he said what he said without considering the media starving for ratings. He had some very sensitive and heart felt interviews. He was more down to Earth than this limited assortment of interviews show him to be. The YMCA, Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts loved him near the end. That tells me all I need to know about him. He might have been a drunk and he was a mild mannered but, he knew what he was doing and would rather die to be with his wife and daughter (allegedly) and the life he built than live long enough to die heart broken and robbed of his great memories in the post-eruption toxic soup of Spirit Lake and die of a heart attack in some old people home. He was 83 and died the best way you can go at that age.
All those people were Trump supporters before they existed. They act just like his brainless goons do. The next "eruption" will be when he causes WWIII. But his idiot supporters don't see that coming either.
Thank you! I used to think he was stupid for years until last night. His words follow the inconsistent beaurocracy going back and forth between the USGS and the state. Everyone looks back and thinks it's all an organized scripted event when if you know what I know after watching years of footage that it was anything but. David Johnston was the only one to never change his expert tune but, no one took him as seriously as they should have. Harry changed his tune once the quakes kept waking him up and throwing him off the bed. His wanting to stay put and thinking the mountain wouldn't get him turned into he didn't care and wanted to go with it. He doesn't seem as much of a rebel as history tried to make him out to be which after the event just makes him look foolish as much as he was just tired from the stress from the event and he just wanted to go without living long enough to see the devastation and die of a heart attack anyway. It's a shame how little people get it. No thanks to media spin making him out as this "unwavering legend".
@10:41. I could be mistaken but there's another video entitled "The Mountain Erupts" that shows a guy who almost looks like this being wheeled out on a stretcher
@@leroyhildenbrand780 That close to the mountain I wouldn’t doubt it. I want to go see Mt. St. Helens and the surrounding area but last year’s landslide has delayed my trip. I read the Johnston Ridge Observatory will be closed until at least 2026. I’m in Tennessee and was just finishing first grade when the eruption happened. I don’t remember if we had any ash fall but I do remember a kid bringing in a jar of ash when school resumed in September. I don’t know from where he got the ash.
I’m wondering how strong the sound was from the eruption 10 miles away? Since some eruptions cause lightning I’m wondering if the lightning was strong enough to disrupt area communications? Next I’m wondering if when Yellowstone blows the next time if the lightning from the cloud could be strong enough to effect communications? Though when it blows, likely not in our lifetime anyone within 100 miles of it is likely dead.
Day of I flew from las Angeles to SeaTac on this day united airlines I think it was dc9. Half or less on board the pilot gosh the OK for us to fly around each side of the plane that was tipped so we could look straight down onto the slow motion is below of clouds rising I wish that I would’ve had my camera. And there was only a few of us that ventured everybody went to the windows so when the pilot turned, we could look down onto Saint Helens actually irrupt Ing. That was pretty cool. Someday I will never forget.
It was reported that truman didnt get out of bed until 9am.so he died in bed.not looking out a window or canoeing on spirit lake like the movie showed.
@@gerstmanndavid it was a friend of his from the government that frequently stopped and spent time with him and knew him rather well.do an internet search of truman 9 o'clock....eventually you'll find it.
I wonder what happened to that lady who said that she was not afraid and she paid taxes I wonder if she was inside her home when the volcano exploded if she was I wonder what her attitude was then people are responsible for their own actions when authorities tell you to get out and stay out there's a reason I do not feel sorry for her I think she had a poor attitude when all they were trying to do was save her life
Watch all of the interviews of his. He started off against authorities and in the end he became more humble and was thanking and waving at them the day before the eruption. The man knew he was a goner and didn't care. He lost his with (15 years his junior) and (allegedly) his daughter too (39 in a car accident). People can come to terms with a situation with time. Oh, no! People like you look back after the dust is settled like you know what really happened. Harry R. Truman knew the mountain would kill him and against his wishes everyone endangered themselves and others to try to save someone who didn't want to be saved. He was no dummy. He was 83 and fought in WW1 in the 100th Aero Squadron, 7th Squad, and trained as an Aeromechanic and he'd lived there for 52 years. Know the whole context before going out judging a man who isn't even here anymore to set his disorganized documentation of his words straight.
Those residents and others were completely selfish, putting law enforcement and their families in danger like that. they had plenty of time to gather things and relocate prior to eruption. Were officials off on the eruption yes, but we have never seen a volcano erupt before so how could experts predict what would happen or the strength. The mayor warn them and warned them and people atill went up there, then they blamed her and took her to court when people died. Ridiculous
Valientes, los geólogos y personal que trabajaba en servicio de la ciencia y la seguridad ciudadana. Tercos e ignorantes, quienes de manera arrogante, desconocían las señales y advertencias.
Harry said he hates to drink, but people drive him to it 😂
I know the feeling, all too well.
I got to meet him and roll across the lake in a canoe when I was a teenager, a couple of years before it erupted. I will never forget it.
Wow really that’s very interesting he seemed like a extremely decent man
Bet the man had seen some things up in the wilderness over those years. Probably had the most legendary campfire tales.
R.I.P. Harry Truman and David Johnston and all the others who lost their lives in this
Kind of guy who you think doesn't like you at first, but over time you probably grew love the stubborn old man. I feel that way just watching film of him! RIP sir
I was 7 years old when Mount St. Helens erupted. The very day that the mountain erupted, our family was moving from Snohomish Washington to Springfield Oregon. I remember the ash cloud passing over us and blocking out the sun. I remember my mom telling our dad to stop the car so she could go collect some of the ash from the ground. My dad told me years later that he had met Mr. Truman.
My heart broke for Harry’s sister. 😢
I remember the KOMO News guy who took camera footage under the ash even though he thought he wasn't going to make it. Mr. Truman was as grumpy as I remember! A man of his word.
Incredible footage. Priceless interview reels shown with Dr. David Johnston. Thank you for sharing.
Props to the many camera men who captured the amazing footage for our viewing pleasure.
I remember seeing him on the news. I was 15 at the time. I liked him then. Tough bugger. Yeah the mountain took him but he went on his own terms.
I remember we heard the mountain firing off in Anacortes
This is the best filming of an eruption. My God, it was devastating
That's actually not filmed. That was someone who was there that day taking pictures of the mountain. He had just got done and was leaving when it started to erupt so he grabbed his camera and snapped several pics of it. He did a great job capturing it, that's for sure. They also did a great job splicing it together to look like a film. What can you say...technology 🤔.
I remember seeing him on the news a week or two before the eruption. 44 years ago. we live in a completely different world now. nothing is the same as it was then.
Change is constant.
Remembered this when that happened. Was a kid back in the 80s. Seeing it all over the news. Pretty wild to see. Everything in its path gone in seconds.. it's all growing back now. Just a different landscape.
I lived at 2373 Cottage Way Pine Grove Area. May 18 1980 today it's Cottage Avenue saw eruption on KRCR 7R channel 7. I was 18 years old .
Great little movie, I stood in the doorway in Portland, Or as the house shook. Of course we were all following the story of the man on the mountain. Day turned to night as the ash came down for days. I wore a mask and goggles to stay safe as I road my bicycle to the Portland Museum Art School. I will never forget that day and the days that followed.
It was an earthquake that triggered the eruption. It was bound to have some kind of event. But that earthquake caused a massive landslide and the whole side of the mountain blew out. I was to far south and only 5 to remember the shaking. But I do remember the ash.
I’m 59 years old and I remember as a child we used to go there pretty regularly I remember jumping into the icy cold lake, just wanted to feel how cold it really was ,knowing that the water from the lake came directly from the mountain I decided I wanted to jump in an my family laughed at me and I tell you as fast as I jumped in I was out just as fast that was the coldest I’ve ever felt
From my own experience, mountain water is never warm and in the winter, it's deadly.
We had a fine dusting of ash in Northern Illinois from this event.
RIP Harry......a real patriot I would have been glad to know.
REAL PATRIOTS have DD214s…
Shoveling ash like snow in Yakima WA.
Visited Mt St Helens in 2012 and the Mountain was coming back nicely.
“Harry says he hates to drink, but people drive him to it..”
I was a kid and we were living near Anacortes when the mountain popped. I remember goofing around in my room then all of a sudden the whole house shook with one big BANG. Woke the old man up who thought I was jumping off the bed or something, lol. I feel bad for Harry's kitties. :(
Truman never left. Ain't that the truth. R.I.P. Harry!
David Johnston talking about what could happen and then it does happen and it kills him and Harry. Gives me shivers.
I'd say the worst was one of the other geologist monitoring the eruption. (He literally said "It just got Dave and now it's about to get us". (Radio went silent).
"Vancouver, this is it." I wonder if David might have been referring to his own death.
Shiver me timbers….
I see that mountain all of the time. It's just crazy how nature took the blow and is reconstructing itself. In many places you can still see the damage though.
I remember back then, some months after the volcano went off, we could go to McDonalds and if you bought a Big Mac, fries and a drink, plus $1.00 more, you got a small plastic container (about 1 cup in size) containing volcanic ash. I still have mine. For all I know they dug a pit to build a new McDonalds restaurant somewhere and used the dirt to fill these cups. But, it does look exactly like the small bottle of ash I grabbed from Clark Air Base when that volcano blew its lid many years ago. I was evacuated after that one.
Sounds like a Trump scam. $1 in 1980's was a bit.
I feel sorry for the poor cats.
Who gives a shit about a cat
@@user-jt6qd8ri4l😂
What about the cats at your local shelter? Go rescue them.
@@PheNom1466 I've got 10!! LOL!
@@cloverfield911 🤣
Never doubt a volcanologist!
It's not about "Gotchas". He slowly adjusted his tune if you even cared to listen to his interviews in depth. He went from uninformed. Just like the scientists were, he grew frustrated and saw the mountain he loved change with the bulge and many quakes. Then, he lost his wife and I heard another account that he lost his daughter in a car accident when she was 39. He buried her up there too. He also had 2 divorces too. The man was old and tired and decided to go with the one thing that was his in the world that he fought so hard to build on top of his love for the mountain and said he wouldn't live a week after seeing the devastation and losing his land and life. Sounded like he was on heart medication too. Lay off him with your "gotchas" and "hind sight". You don't know about this situation as much as you think.
@@coreym162 What makes you think I was referring to Harry Truman, Ears?
That Truman fella was quite the character.
And a know it all.
@@aaron___6014yup...just because he hadnt seen an eruption in the 50 years of being there he didn't believe it was ever going to.or he didn't think it was going to be as big as it was.in reality the side blew off and targeted him directly.i think mother nature saw a nut nearby and said don't mess with or doubt me.
@@aaron___6014 And an extremely crotchety, Ebenezer Scrooge-type fellow (talking from years of personal experience).
Harry loved his life.... Nothing wrong with that. 😊
I remember the day this happened. It was all over the news.
Harry was such a character. What a wonderful person. He really has not missed much since his passing. In truth the world has went to hell. I have no doubts he would have despised how things are today. 😂 R.I.P. Legend 🙏🏻❤️🕊️
The quality of analogue film back then is something I miss . NEVER .
The pyroclastic flows traveled at 450mph and Truman thought he could outrun the eruption in his boat.
You realize he changed his mind quite a bit actually leading up to the event. He didn't know anymore than the experts at those times. Then, he changed his tune to staying and realizing the risk and didn't care and stayed. I wish they showed his quotes in chronological because, it's easy to rearrange his interviews to make him sound dumb til the end but, that's what happens when people that don't like you have control of your words when you can't even defend yourself because, you're dead. Disgusting.
@coreym162 I don't think he was dumb or stubborn at all. My guessing is he'd lived there for most of his life and he was at peace to die and remain there for eternity if so be it.
He went out with his head held high and I'd like think it was instant and any suffering only last a mere second or two. RIP HT, a legend in his own right.
@coreym162 Many people know the true story of Harry R .Truman
@@coreym162 Its common knowledge he didn't care anymore. He wasn't gonna leave no matter what was gonna happen to him.
False. Find the Lars Larson interview. He's scared, subdued, wanting to leave. Giving away his cats. He's a broken man, a widower, and alcoholic. The real him.
He tells Lars he'll be remembered as a coward if he goes now, but wants to. That's a rare interview with him sober!
The press was filming him while he was roaring drunk.
All of the prior eruptions in the 1800s were small. In that context - when he made a haughty proclamation, it was mere comedy. Free advertisement for his hotel.
When things looked serious, the damned press continued to play earlier comments. They exploited a broken, alcoholic widower still in mourning - reluctant to leave the last thing he and his soulmate built.
Other than Lars, they should feel like **** the rest of their lives.
If they gave him an out - "we were just joshing, fun and games" smart to leave now...they could have saved him.
First there is a mountain,then there is no mountain,then there is...
Rebirth
Your compilation is good. Thank you.
God bless Harry. Guys in his 80s and was clear he was willing to take risk by staying. Several people stayed in Centralia PA after being asked to leave, and they didnt all fall into the earth.
Exactly - he was 83 and still had much of his strength. Had he left his home & life of 50 years (also worth to mention his second & most beloved wife was buried on the property) and seen afterwards what became of it, he most likely would have withered away within 1 year - propably even less...
Good ol Harry.🔥
this volcano was really a story of Harry Truman vs God. we know who won.
RIP Harry, you lived a long, full life. semper fi.
Harry was a Character "Rip buddy"
I was in Wisconsin and left right away with a friend and his two teenagers, we walked 7 miles from where we left vans , we got close 😂😅just one of the things I remember about this life.
The hat flying off is gold...
Just stumbled across this looking for vids about con men religious revivalists. Go figure. Hahaha! One guy on YT has a MSH's playlist with 188 videos on it. This should be one of them! Didn't find this when I was searching back when I was watching them all. It may be easier for the search function to locate this vid if you edited the title by adding a space between "Helens" and "Harry" >> (The Eruption of Mt St HelensHarry Truman David Johnston ORIGINAL MOVIE 39 Years later). Thanks for posting!
12 years old and watched it in science class that morning 😢
Hmmm we didn't have school on Sundays
Monday in Australia is Sunday in many backward arsed futtbukd countries🤗🙃
The original film lasted 92 minutes. So they have removed over half of it
Excellent video.
44 years later and people still talking about him from a couple news clips, imagine if we all knew him all his life.
WW1 vet.
@@aaron___6014ship sinking survivor aswell from that conflict
No thanks.
@Itsjustlife33: “no thanks” what?
I love them ol cogers…grew up around so many I’m used to em and understand why they always seemed like an asshole….you would go if you’d lived through what that man had
Excellent video
This is awesome!
You can only imagine his last thoughts!
He looked like the type of person who wouldn't care he had nothing to lose either way.
If Harry saw it coming his last thought was probably, "better than dying in a hospital bed and more exciting than dying in my sleep!"
😮 oh sh!t
You don't know what he could be thinking. He could have regretted his decision to stay. Realizing, since he's done it before, that he could have came back and rebuilt. I'm sure he'd be rebuilding on what looked to be a warzone, though.
I was just 10 years old living in Kennewick Washington when this happened, sky got dark about 9 or 10.
If i had a time machine i would surely stay there a few weeks every year
I have a container of ash from the eruption that fell in Spokane WA.....my Aunt(God rest her soul) brushed it off their cars......I was in NW ND when this happened and I remember it to this day!
I hear McDonalds are buying😁🙃
Mother nature took everything down including his sign, never play chicken with mother nature. You’ll lose every time. RIP Harry Truman.
The Helicopter flying inside & around the Volcano's puckerhole was Crazy!
No need to add all the fake Smithsonian clips the actual footage is enough, adding the other cheapens it.
I absolutely agree with you!
How is it possible that Johnson miscalculated by sitting directly in front of Mt. St. Helen's? According to reports, Johnson moved from his safe zone three miles closer into the blast zone. Ghastly.
I’m sure Harry was thrilled to see that landslide heading for him.
You think? I think he rather would died in his sleep and be buried on his land with others carrying on his land. But he might been happy since everything was going to be taken with him.
More possible he didn't see it coming at 8.32 am, possibly sleeping and died at sleep
@vinetacirule8094: My opinion he was definitely up cause old people wake up early. Idk if that’s with every country but in the US old people go to bed around 9pm and wake up around 5am.
@@vinetacirule8094the volcano erupting would have woken him up for sure
I'm sure he was sipping on a coke and rum and was working or Chilling when it all happened. He probably stood in shock, dropping his mug... in awww as it all headed his way
His whole livelihood ended up being a fossil that somebody will dig out years from now.
I've always like Harry and how he lived on his own terms. That said, he and some of these others interviewed are a prime example of the dangers of "doing your own research " and deciding you know better than experts. Social media is absolutely filled with the sort of unearned confidence on display here. Luckily Harry didn't have the ability to convince others to stay in harms way due to the lack of up to the second media coverage in 1980.
I have always preferred to let natural selection take its course, it's nature's way of shaking the fleas off its back, we spend too much time trying to protect stupid people, if we remove warning labels the gene pool will eventually clean itself.
And I very much Doubt that he would've tried to influence anybody else's decision to stay or go. He was very clear on the reasons why he was staying. It's where his Life lived🤗🙃
Then they make the movie about this called st Helen's and the sad part about the movie is the actor that played David Johnston was killed not all to long after the movie came out. So sad
Harry is my new hero!❤🏔️
I still remember Harry Truman and how stubborn he was before the massive eruption
Stubborn is one word, stupid is another...
@@dempseyarmy7524 He didn't care either way. He had lost a lot already.
Nicely done!
We got a light dusting in Maine when this happened. It was all over my mother's car.
Does anyone know what happened to the lady that said she wasn't afraid?
The wind carried the ash up to Edmonton & the city had one inch of ash covering everything -- it was really wierd...
this is great stuff because its our states history (a huge event) caught on film so that we get to re-live a liitle bit of what we lived through in the 80's when it happened if you where alive when the mountain erupted and something that can not ever be forgoten in our memories especialy if we love stuff like this and because of the types of people who lived and died on the mountain like truman and the scientist and every one else who got to experience such a historical event
hopefully the earth is about to move into a new, more geologically active period soon.
Awesome video!
I would like to know if the house of the woman who believed her house was
safe was on the north side, and if it was, what she had to say after the eruption.
She was likely financially screwed if her home was up there. People have the right to complain and be concerned about their property they work hard for. It's so easy to judge behind your keyboard behind anonymity. Try working hard for something sometime and then, sing the same tune.
@@coreym162 Your a massive Karen in all your bitchy little comments.
I mail ordered ash from the eruption...It got to me in NY in a little plastic zip lock bag..
The eruption occurred the same day I graduated HS. The summer that followed was extremely hot.
You graduated on a Sunday? 1980 had 2 days over 90 degrees that summer. Justsayin
That old guy was kinda full of himself. Couple days later you could see the ash high in the atmosphere above the East Coast USA.
Yeah came across as ignorant but he went the way he wanted.
You are just looking at a disorganized chronology without full context or reason he said what he said without considering the media starving for ratings. He had some very sensitive and heart felt interviews. He was more down to Earth than this limited assortment of interviews show him to be. The YMCA, Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts loved him near the end. That tells me all I need to know about him. He might have been a drunk and he was a mild mannered but, he knew what he was doing and would rather die to be with his wife and daughter (allegedly) and the life he built than live long enough to die heart broken and robbed of his great memories in the post-eruption toxic soup of Spirit Lake and die of a heart attack in some old people home. He was 83 and died the best way you can go at that age.
@@coreym162 Getem Karen
I’d have no trouble at all with Harry Truman.
I'd hope not, what with him being dead these last 43ish years...
All those people were Trump supporters before they existed. They act just like his brainless goons do. The next "eruption" will be when he causes WWIII. But his idiot supporters don't see that coming either.
Yeah, what do you mean by that? That's really strange to say 🤔🙄
Well hed be better than Trump. A dead squirrel would be
@@michaelmckinney401A pile of Skunk poop is better than Trump.
I remember that day, Turning on the TV and wondering why it had no color (ash over everything). Also being pitch black in Yakima at noon.
Never put the Lord to a foolish test
Not a dammed one of you criticizing Harry actually listened to a word he said
Thank you! I used to think he was stupid for years until last night. His words follow the inconsistent beaurocracy going back and forth between the USGS and the state. Everyone looks back and thinks it's all an organized scripted event when if you know what I know after watching years of footage that it was anything but. David Johnston was the only one to never change his expert tune but, no one took him as seriously as they should have. Harry changed his tune once the quakes kept waking him up and throwing him off the bed. His wanting to stay put and thinking the mountain wouldn't get him turned into he didn't care and wanted to go with it. He doesn't seem as much of a rebel as history tried to make him out to be which after the event just makes him look foolish as much as he was just tired from the stress from the event and he just wanted to go without living long enough to see the devastation and die of a heart attack anyway. It's a shame how little people get it. No thanks to media spin making him out as this "unwavering legend".
@@coreym162 where is the footage or quotes showing he changed his tune?
@10:41. I could be mistaken but there's another video entitled "The Mountain Erupts" that shows a guy who almost looks like this being wheeled out on a stretcher
I have a jar of ash that fell here in Montana
Harry was born in 1897!!😮 he was 83 in 1980🎉 RIP old timer.😢
I lived in lakeside California and the cloud covered and the Ash fell
8:35 Is that the David Johnston who said, "Vancouver Vancouver This is It!" And his body was never found?
i am part of the lake and mountain and they are part of me. no shit.
So they knew it was gonna go, just not when,i didnt remember that!!
It’s funny the geologist kept predicting the ash might reach as far as Eastern Washington. I remember ash coming down for a week or more in San Diego.
I learned from another video that the site of Harry Truman’s lodge is buried 200 feet deep.
So his cats didn’t make it.
@@catlifewithbabykitten Unfortunately not. I feel really sorry for them especially.
I was there in 1986 at age 13. From what I heard, Harry's lodge was under 800 feet of ash .
@@leroyhildenbrand780 That close to the mountain I wouldn’t doubt it. I want to go see Mt. St. Helens and the surrounding area but last year’s landslide has delayed my trip. I read the Johnston Ridge Observatory will be closed until at least 2026.
I’m in Tennessee and was just finishing first grade when the eruption happened. I don’t remember if we had any ash fall but I do remember a kid bringing in a jar of ash when school resumed in September. I don’t know from where he got the ash.
I'm hoping to be able to go back either sometime this year or next year. I'm also playing on hiking to the top of it
I forgot how many dead expert amateur geologists there were from this.
I’m wondering how strong the sound was from the eruption 10 miles away? Since some eruptions cause lightning I’m wondering if the lightning was strong enough to disrupt area communications? Next I’m wondering if when Yellowstone blows the next time if the lightning from the cloud could be strong enough to effect communications? Though when it blows, likely not in our lifetime anyone within 100 miles of it is likely dead.
Day of I flew from las Angeles to SeaTac on this day united airlines I think it was dc9. Half or less on board the pilot gosh the OK for us to fly around each side of the plane that was tipped so we could look straight down onto the slow motion is below of clouds rising I wish that I would’ve had my camera. And there was only a few of us that ventured everybody went to the windows so when the pilot turned, we could look down onto Saint Helens actually irrupt Ing. That was pretty cool. Someday I will never forget.
Harrys sister sure loved her brother💔
It was reported that truman didnt get out of bed until 9am.so he died in bed.not looking out a window or canoeing on spirit lake like the movie showed.
Please tell us who was there to witness this and actually survived to report it?
@@gerstmanndavid it was a friend of his from the government that frequently stopped and spent time with him and knew him rather well.do an internet search of truman 9 o'clock....eventually you'll find it.
Yea i was 8 i remember watching the news on this
I wonder what happened to that lady who said that she was not afraid and she paid taxes I wonder if she was inside her home when the volcano exploded if she was I wonder what her attitude was then people are responsible for their own actions when authorities tell you to get out and stay out there's a reason I do not feel sorry for her I think she had a poor attitude when all they were trying to do was save her life
"Than the mountain...Axeplodn" 🥒 *crunchh*
Me Granpa Harry❤
Real charmer.
……Truman was an ornery old critter, & that obstinacy killed him.
Johnston was doing his USGS job, but way too close to eruption site. RIP
Watch all of the interviews of his. He started off against authorities and in the end he became more humble and was thanking and waving at them the day before the eruption. The man knew he was a goner and didn't care. He lost his with (15 years his junior) and (allegedly) his daughter too (39 in a car accident). People can come to terms with a situation with time. Oh, no! People like you look back after the dust is settled like you know what really happened. Harry R. Truman knew the mountain would kill him and against his wishes everyone endangered themselves and others to try to save someone who didn't want to be saved. He was no dummy. He was 83 and fought in WW1 in the 100th Aero Squadron, 7th Squad, and trained as an Aeromechanic and he'd lived there for 52 years. Know the whole context before going out judging a man who isn't even here anymore to set his disorganized documentation of his words straight.
@@coreym162 BLAH BLAH BLAH
Those residents and others were completely selfish, putting law enforcement and their families in danger like that. they had plenty of time to gather things and relocate prior to eruption. Were officials off on the eruption yes, but we have never seen a volcano erupt before so how could experts predict what would happen or the strength. The mayor warn them and warned them and people atill went up there, then they blamed her and took her to court when people died. Ridiculous
In italy there is a joke on naples, if the mount goes off we have a less camorra problem, but unfortunally not everybody in naples is a bad ppl.
Valientes, los geólogos y personal que trabajaba en servicio de la ciencia y la seguridad ciudadana.
Tercos e ignorantes, quienes de manera arrogante, desconocían las señales y advertencias.