Ruskin Heights Tornado Memorial

Ruskin Heights Tornado Memorial After the Tornado Photos

After the tornado photos are available at the Kansas City Public Library.

This page is photo intensive. Depending on your server, load time may vary.

If you can identify any of these pictures please let us know, especially if you lived there. Most of these photos are of Ruskin Heights, but some are from Ottawa to Spring Hill, to Martin City, to Grandview, Hickman Mills and beyond. Ruskin Heights is obvious from the aerial photographs. To enlarge thumbnails click on the pictures and they will enlarge. If you have pictures to share via email or snail mail we would love to see and share them on this site. Thanks for visiting.

To see the Large set of photos we are directing you to the Kansas City Library Website so that you may order them direct. These photos are listed 1957 Montgomery as the source. You can purchase them through Kansas City Library for a piece of history.

Some home photos from Rick Etem:

OTHER RESOURCES available from the Kansas City Public Library and Jackson County Library

Ruskin Heights Tornado (photos) by Montgomery 1957

"36 Deaths; 156 Are in Hospital" Kansas City Star, May 21, 1957

"New Terror in a Savage Spring: A Record Rampage of Tornadoes and Sudden Floods" Life (Magazine)June 3, 1957

The Ottawa-Kansas City Tornado Disaster of May 20, 1957, by J.B. Muecke 1957

"Weather: Caught in the Suburbs" Time magazine June 3, 1957

"The Resurection of Ruskin Heights" by Jack Lewis in American Mercury magazine, January 1959

"The Night We'll Never Forget: Ruskin Heights Revisited," Walt Bodine, "Kansas City Town Squire", June 1973, Issue 5, Volume 7.

Twilight Twister by Agnes Turnbaugh 1977

"Vivid Memories of a Twister's Toll" by Joe Nemecek in Kansas City Star Magazine May 15, 2005

This page is for educational purposes to help viewers access historical facts that are available to the public.

Last updated on Jun 29, 2007

These photos are from the Kansas City Library and can be purchased from the Kansas City Library