Press Release — Director James Cameron makes the first step in apologizing to the men of the Titanic he misrepresented in his award winning blockbuster film.
The trend among recent authors and directors has been to assert that a higher death toll among third class passengers proves a deliberate attempt on the part of Titanic crew to give preferential treatment to first class passengers. Doug Phillips obliterates this myth in “The Titanic Numbers Game.”
In the mid-19th century, a brave group of British soldiers found themselves in a sinking vessel off the coast of South Africa. They gave the order “women and children first,” placed the women and children in lifeboats, and stood in formation as every one of them went down to a watery grave. For more on this thrilling story see “The Case of the Birkenhead.”