Royd Anderson

Royd Anderson is a Cuban American filmmaker, teacher and historian from New Orleans. He specializes in Louisiana disasters that are usually not mentioned in Louisiana history textbooks. Anderson produced many award-winning documentaries such as Pan Am Flight 759, The Upstairs Lounge Fire, The Continental Grain Elevator Explosion, Mother's Day Bus Crash on 610 and The Luling Ferry Disaster. He has been an invited guest speaker at Princeton University, Tulane University, Loyola University New...See more

Royd Anderson is a Cuban American filmmaker, teacher and historian from New Orleans. He specializes in Louisiana disasters that are usually not mentioned in Louisiana history textbooks. Anderson produced many award-winning documentaries such as Pan Am Flight 759, The Upstairs Lounge Fire, The Continental Grain Elevator Explosion, Mother's Day Bus Crash on 610 and The Luling Ferry Disaster. He has been an invited guest speaker at Princeton University, Tulane University, Loyola University New Orleans and the FBI New Orleans Division. Some of his TV appearances include for the Lifetime Movie Network, the National Geographic Channel, WYES's Informed Sources and WLAE's Louisiana: The State We're In . He can be reached at rcand@mygrad.loyno.edu. See less