1947 Suicide

bornkillerbornkiller AdministratorIn your girlfriends snatch
edited January 2014 in Spurious Generalities
The date is May, 1947 and 23 year old Evelyn McHale has only recently left her fiancee. She wrote, "He is much better off without me, I wouldn't make a good wife for anybody" ... Then she crossed it out. She went to the observation platform of the Empire State Building. Through the mist she gazed at the street, 86 floors below. Then plunged to her death. In her desperate determination she leaped clear of the setbacks and hit a United Nations limousine parked at the curb. Across the street photography student Robert Wiles heard an explosive crash. Just four minutes after Evelyn McHale's death Wiles got this picture of death's violence and its composure.


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