Titanic Hero Honored

AND NO WORD ON WHAT CAUSED FIRE. THE TEENS EVENTUALLY MADE IT TO THE DANCE WHEN ANOTHER GROUP OF PROM GOERS OFFERED THEM A RIDE. AN UNSUNG HERO FROM ONE OF THE MOST INFAMOUS TRAGEDIES IN HISTORY IS GETTING HIS DUE. A LOCAL MAN WHO IS CREDITED WITH SAVING MORE THAN 100 LIVES THE NIGHT THE TITANIC SANK. HIS STORY IS RARELY TOLD. 104 YEARS SINCE THE TITANIC SANK AFTER COLLIDING WITH AN ICEBERG ON ITS MAIDEN VOYAGE, A FITTING MEMORIAL IS UNVEILED FOR A HERO. ROBERT JOHNS HOPKINS IS FINALLY GETTING HIS DUE. AS A YOUNGSTER HIS NAME WAS NOT IN ANY BOOKS. IT WASN'T A BIG THING ON THE NEWS. IT WAS JUST HEARSAY FROM MY FATHER. 2225 PEOPLE BOARDED THE TITANIC TRAMPING FROM SOUTH HAMPTON ENGLAND TO NEW YORK WHEN IT SANK 713 SURVIVED. IT'S SAID HOPKINS SAVED 130 PEOPLE THAT NIGHT, THE HEROIC ACT WELL RECORDED IN HISTORY, EVEN RECORDED IN THE BLOCKBUSTER TITANIC. HE ACTED QUICKLY WHEN ANOTHER VESSEL WAS FALLING TO HIS LIFEBOAT. ROBERT HOPKINS HACKED AWAY AND ALLOW THAT HAD BOAT TO GET OUT FROM UNDERNEATH BOAT 15. WE'RE WONDERING HOW MANY MORE DESCENDANTS THERE ARE IF HE HADN'T DONE THAT. WE'RE VERY HONORED. ROBERT JOHNS HOPKINS LIVED IN HOBOKEN NEW JERSEY UNTIL HIS DEATH IN 1943 AND WAS BURIED IN HOLY NAME CEMETERY IN JERSEY CITY WHERE HIS GRAVE WAS LEFT UNMARKED UNTIL TODAY. WE DIDN'T EVEN KNOW WHERE HE WAS BURIED FOR A WHILE. NOW THANKS TO A TOMBSTONE DONATED BY THE ARCHDIOCESE OF NEWARK, HIS GRANDCHILDREN AND GREAT GRANDCHILDREN ARE ABLE TO HONOR THEIR FOREFATHER. KEEP THE FAMILY STORY GOING. A STORY THAT REMAINS A POIGNANT PART OF HISTORY WITH HOPKINS' NAME NOW SET IN STONE. IN JERSEY CITY, MAGDALENA DORIS CBS2 NEWS. THERE ARE FIVE TITANIC