Click on the photo at right to download the PDF - March 3, 1995 Pulitzer Prize Winning Article by Robert Campbell on the John Hancock Building, titled " Builder Faced Bigger Crisis Than Falling Windows"
What everyone remembers is the windows.
It was Chicken Little's panic come true: The glass was falling out of the sky.
The glass in question was from the 10,344 windows of the John Hancock Tower. They began to fail almost from the start. The crisis came in a winter gale on the night of Jan. 20, 1973, while the tower was still under construction. Gusts reached 75 miles per hour at the upper floors. Huge panels of glass, each weighing 500 pounds, shattered and dropped like sequins off a dress, smashing into other windows on their way down. In all, at least 65 fell.
