He claimed that they were telling a Titanic lie. While Titanic Captain Edward John Smith’s official cause of death remains one of history’s enduring mysteries, author Dan E. Parkes has thrown ...

A new book recounts how the press fabricated the myth of Captain Smith's suicide, which ruined the lives of his widow and daughter. If there is a story that endures over time and is revisited from ...

DR. EDWARD JOHN SMITH Age 85, died peacefully on August 21, 2009, at his home in Oceanside, California, surrounded by his wife of 30 years and five children. Dr. Smith was born on October 15, 1923,… ...

Case in point: Capt. Edward John Smith, master of RMS Titanic. Against his better judgment, Smith acquiesced to pressure from the higher-ups in the White Star Line, which owned Titanic, to exceed safe ...

The archive film shows Captain Edward John Smith on board Titanic's sister ship the Olympic. Captain Smith, who died when the Titanic sank in 1912, was born in Hanley.

Edward John Smith was taken into custody and booked into the San Mateo County Jail early Saturday morning after a police search for his whereabouts throughout the evening, according to the San ...