Barnard keeps photos of the broken welds on the collapsed tower — they are a reminder to him that he thinks the collapse of the tower was not the fault of the workers or the company he worked for, National Steel Erectors out of Oklahoma.
1971 TV tower collapse survivor shares story (presspubs.com) SHOREVIEW — Don Barnard, 77, is the only survivor left from the Shoreview TV tower collapse that left seven workers dead on Sept. 7, 1971, 45 years ago.