On November 28, 1942, the Cocoanut Grove Fire started. 492 people were killed.

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1. The 16-year-old busboy

Stanley Tomaszewski died in 1994 at age 68.

He told a Boston Globe reporter that he prayed for the souls of the innocents who died. He also said he often visited their graves in Massachusetts. “I’ve suffered enough, was spit on, called every name in the book and threatened,” he said. “Phone calls in the middle of the night. It hasn’t been easy, I don’t have a sense of guilt, because it wasn’t my fault.