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Ruskin Heights Today

By Lee Ingalls

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Kansas City, MO – The Ruskin Heights housing development survived one the Kansas City area's most destructive tornados fifty years ago this week. Most of the homes, shops and schools demolished by the storm on May 20th, 1957 were rebuilt. As the years passed, this part of Southeast Kansas City would face new challenges. KCUR's Lee Ingalls reports.

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