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10-31-2010, 02:39 PM
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Re: Evelyn McHale Jumped from Empire State Building (1 May 1947)
That is the most senseless tragedy ever photographed, and yet it is made even more tragic by the womans beauty.
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11-14-2010, 12:01 AM
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Re: Evelyn McHale Jumped from Empire State Building (1 May 1947)
From the internet: Evelyn Francis McHale was born in Berkeley California Sept 20, 1923. She was the next to the youngest of seven children, the first four children were spaced 1 year apart, the last three were spaced 2 years apart. There was also a stepsister from her mother’s previous marriage. Her father Vincent, was a bank examiner, orig from Illinois, her mother, Helen, orig from Pa, was a housewife. Around 1930, they moved to Washington, DC, where her father became an examiner for the Federal Land Bank. Also at this time the mother left, moving to an apartment in another part of Washington. The father retained custody of all seven children. Evelyn was 6. Whether the mother left voluntarily or was told to leave is unknown. They moved a few years later to Tuckahoe NY, where Evelyn went to high school. After high school, in 1943, Evelyn became a WAC and was stationed down in Jefferson Mo. After she was discharged, she burned her uniform. At some point, she moved to NYC to work, and met and became engaged to a young man named Barry Rhodes, who was just out of the Air Force and attending Lafayette College in Easton Pa. They were to be married at his brother’s house in Troy, NY. A year before her death, Evelyn had been a bridesmaid at Barry’s younger brother’s wedding. After the wedding, she removed her bridesmaid gown, said “I never want to see this again” and burned it. On the day she jumped, Barry said she seemed happy and looking forward to the marriage when she boarded the train home. Barry’s birthday being April 30th, I assume Evelyn had gone to celebrate his birthday with him. There was a security guard less than twelve feet from where she jumped. She dropped her handkerchief over the ledge just prior to climbing over and leaping to her death. In her suicide note, she wrote the following: "My fiance asked me to marry him in June, but I don’t think I would make a good wife for anyone. He is much better off without me. Tell my father, I have too many of my mother’s tendencies. I don’t want anyone in or out of my family to see any part of me. Could you destroy my body by cremation? I beg of you and my family -don’t have any service or remembrance for me.” As per her request, she was cremated.  - All of the above were facts I found on ancestry.com |
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11-14-2010, 07:44 AM
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Re: Evelyn McHale Jumped from Empire State Building (1 May 1947)
Massive internal trauma for sure but it does not show it this picture. Beautiful woman though
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