the plane exploded and caught on fire.” Decades later, the tragic situation inspired the 2006 movie “We Are Marshall.” Since the crash, Mary Jane Tolley has always pursued answers about what ...

In November 1970, virtually the entire football team and all of the coaches of Marshall University (Huntington, West Virginia) die in a plane crash. That spring, led by Nate Ruffin, a player who ...

The Virginia widow of a Marshall football coach who died in a plane crash 54 years ago is sharing her story after the deadly mid-air collision in D.C. Mary Jane Tolley is 87 now and lives in ...