107 #82: First Officer Murdoch shot one or two passengers before shooting himself

TRUE, probably. At about 1 a.m., all Titanic’s officers had been issued with Webley revolvers, as Lightoller recalled in his

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107 #81: Col. John Jacob Astor IV was crushed by a falling funnel as Titanic sank

FALSE. This has generally been accepted as fact, probably because of the following statement by First Class survivor, Colonel Archibald

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