{"id":978,"date":"2024-12-11T20:24:07","date_gmt":"2024-12-11T20:24:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maderatribustg.wpenginepowered.com\/?p=978"},"modified":"2026-05-13T18:12:04","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T18:12:04","slug":"tragedy-tugged-at-nation-s-heartstrings-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/tragedy-tugged-at-nation-s-heartstrings-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Tragedy tugged at nation\u2019s heartstrings"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"978\" class=\"elementor elementor-978\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-6b7cf349 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"6b7cf349\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-32fe7bd0 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"32fe7bd0\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>El conductor estaba ebrio mientras viajaba hacia el norte en los carriles en direcci\u00f3n sur de la autopista 99. Cuando lleg\u00f3 a Ashlan Avenue en Fresno, sucedi\u00f3 lo inevitable; choc\u00f3 varios autos en el tr\u00e1fico en sentido contrario, uno de ellos de frente. El conductor ebrio no result\u00f3 gravemente herido, pero el \u00faltimo autom\u00f3vil en estrellarse contra el choque de frente que destrozaba veh\u00edculos y que iba en sentido contrario, se llev\u00f3 la vida de los padres de 10 ni\u00f1os.<\/p><p>Casi de la noche a la ma\u00f1ana, la dura situaci\u00f3n de los ni\u00f1os que quedaron hu\u00e9rfanos esa noche de julio de 1968 conmovi\u00f3 el coraz\u00f3n de la naci\u00f3n.<\/p><p>It took a while for the Highway Patrol to identify the couple who had been killed. They were 39 year-old Robert Morris and his 35 year-old wife Joyce from Madera. While the deceased were being transported to the morgue, their children were waiting in their home at 921 West Sixth Street for Mom and Dad to return. The couple had gone to Fresno to test drive an auto they wanted to buy.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The driver was drunk as he traveled north in the southbound lanes of Highway 99. When he reached Ashlan Avenue in Fresno, the inevitable happened; he struck several cars in the oncoming traffic, one of them head-on. The drunk driver was not seriously injured, but the last car to slam into the grinding, wrong-way crash [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":40366,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"elementor_theme","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_angie_page":false,"page_builder":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[33],"class_list":["post-978","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-history","tag-death"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/978","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=978"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/978\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40366"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}