Failed Publicity Stunts
On this week's episode, we discuss several failed publicity stunts, like the one in "Crush, Texas."
Crush, Texas\xa0was a temporary "city" established as the site of a one-day\xa0publicity stunt\xa0in the U.S. state of\xa0Texas\xa0in 1896. William George Crush, general passenger agent of the\xa0Missouri\u2013Kansas\u2013Texas Railroad\xa0(popularly known as the "Katy", from its "Em-Kay-Tee" initials), conceived the idea in order to demonstrate a staged\xa0train wreck\xa0as a public\xa0spectacle. No admission was charged, and train fares to the crash site were offered at the reduced rate of\xa0US$2 from any location in Texas.
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