Description: Havana Harbour, 1898. At 9:40 PM, a massive explosion shattered the silence and sank the USS Maine, taking 260 American sailors down with it. Was it a Spanish mine, or a tragic accident? The truth didn't matter—the press had already decided. In this high-fidelity docushort, Disco Dave reconstructs the moment the United States was thrust onto the world stage. From the fires of the wreckage to the ink-stained fingers of "Yellow Journalists" Hearst and Pulitzer, witness the sixty seconds that launched a war and built an empire.