Titanic Survivor Olaus Abelseth - Prairie Public TV Interview (1978)
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- Olaus Abelseth, a third-class passenger on the Titanic, tells of the ship's near collision in Southampton, the struggle of getting up to the Boat Deck after the ship struck the iceberg, and how he escaped the ship in her final moments.
This interview was aired on Prairie Public Television as part of the special "Spin" on November 12, 1978 and is courtesy of the State Historical Society of North Dakota.
Read the full annotated transcript of this interview: titanicarchive...
Film Sources:
A Night to Remember (1958), dir. Roy Ward Baker / The Rank Organisation
S.O.S. Titanic (1979), dir. William Hale / EMI Films
Titanic (1997), dir. James Cameron / Paramount
Titanic (2012), dir. Jon Jones / ITV
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Wow! Never seen this interview before. Thanks.
They do so much overkill of Astor, Brown etc but the real stuff is this real life experience.
Amazing we have a recording of someone who was on Collapsable A.
Thanks so precious, we need more survivors interview for understand this ship!
@@leleroi hopefully more survivors will give interviews in the future so we can learn more!
Really cool to see the real Olaus Abelseth! His voice is remarkably like the one in the A&E documentary. Great find!
I've never heard/seen this interview! Thanks for posting!
Wow so interesting. I’m always fascinated to hear Titianic testimonies I’ve never heard before.
Thanks for this epic interview of this Norwegian born at Ørskog in Sunnmøre
From 11:50 to 2:00 The ship took 2 hours and 10 minutes to sink. It took another 20 minutes for the six survivors who were in the water to be rescued by the lifeboats. By 3:00 everyone else was pretty much dead
I never knew this interview existed. So fascinating to see Olaus Abelseth himself telling his story after reading it countless of times over the years. Thanks for sharing.
Great interview i never saw before.
Thank you for this rarely seen interview!
Nice! I'd heard of this interview, but never seen it before.
Oddly contradictory to his 1912 accounts.
Joni Feathers survived the Tenerife runway collision in March1977. There is a detailed account online fairly recently where she recounts she remembers nothing until coming to after the collision and eventually escaping the aircraft. However a local newspaper report from her California town a couple of days following the collision has her recounting the details of the actual collison. Remember the brain decides for you what you remember and what you don't. It decides what it wants you to know and detail and otherwise. Abelseth swam to Collapsible A and was picked up by RMS Carpathia.
Fair, although I find it odd that he didn't mention his brother-in-law and cousin.
An interview l have never seen!
Thanks!
I think he was portrayed in SOS Titanic in 1979, driving his shoulder through one of the gates using his size and strength, that separated steerage from second class, enabling him and the few Irish emigrants with him to escape. He was Norwegian I think.
What year did he passed away after this interview?
Ole passed away in 1980 at the age of 94
Very interesting, this was all new to me. Thanks!
1:41 I was under the impression that first class wouldnt have dance parties or anything but i guess they did
He was a third class passenger.
@@mikeg8375 I know but he said he was listening in on first class passengers and they were having a party
Wow, these are great.
From everything I have watched, read about and heard the actual truth about Bruce Ismay is that he was made a scapegoat by white star line, the media and film makers needed a “baddie “ to blame.
It’s taken me around 25 years to understand and comprehend that Bruce wasn’t in charge of the ship.
Captain E J Smith was.
Also on a side note Captain Smith tried his hardest to escape too 😢😢😢
there has to be someone to blame. Since the captain went down, all the fun was stolen away
I'm more annoyed by Ismay for how he tried to avoid any kind of accountability after the sinking.
@@rbsk999Captain is ALWAYS to blame. You are the captain for a reason.