45 Years After Upstairs Lounge Fire, Memorial Offers Something Like Peace For 1 Family

Marie Simoneaux, New Orleans Times-Picayune
Mon, 06/25/2018 - 3:00am

For 42 years, Farris Jerome LeBlanc's family did not know he was one of the 32 men killed in the deadly UpStairs Lounge fire.

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