[This_far]

As above, history and a video. Had other links but an update appears to have 'moved' them.

[Flick Lives]

In the early 1970s, the labs imported sizeable quantities of Giant Hissing Madagascar cockroaches (so-called because, well, they are huge and they hiss and they normally only live on Madagascar) to see what would happen when they zapped them with large amounts of radiation.

I think I've seen that movie...

[This_far]

live link here

“http://www.boston-online.com/bizarro/the_cockroaches_that_ate_natick.html";

short yahoo clip

“https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0tK3s1Vnol0";

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

"As long as they stay away from the Twinkie factory in Natick!"

[FreedomPoster]

For old links like you mentioned, try sticking them in the Wayback Machine at Archive.org