Video: 'CBS News original report - 50 years since the collapse of the Teton Dam'

(Saturday, June 5, 1976, 11:55 a.m. MDT) — 11 people were killed today when the Teton Dam, an earthen dam in eastern Idaho built by the Bureau of Reclamation on the Teton River, suffered a catastrophic failure as it was filling for the first time.

Video: 'The Wild Story of the Teton Dam Failure'