She hung her gray cloth coat on the fence at 86th floor of the Empire-state, put down her pocketbook with several dollars and a make-up kit filled with family pictures.
She gave a last gaze to the note, letters were stroked out but still readable, “He is much better off without me … I wouldn’t make a good wife for anybody”
She dropped the note and herself from the observation deck. Both of them came to rest at the same time, only the note was still at desk and her body was lying with serenity amidst the crumpled wreckage of UN limousine.
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Inspired by this picture actually,
After jumping from the observation deck, 23-year-old Evelyn McHale plunged over 300 meters down Empire State Building and landed on the roof of a parked UN limousine.
PS : pic taken from here.
well written..
the girl looks so serene even in her death!
thanks …!! and that was main reason … i read every thing i found related to her on the internet
Very sad story, just went up to the top myself yesterday. Any idea on when this happened?
long back … may 1st … 1947…
the actual picture was black&white …
Sad… Very well written, though \…
I wish I knew more about her! I actually found an old article with her pic when she was alive..it looks nothing like her. As morbid as it sounds, she actually looks prettier, here.
You’ve actually made me curious, martinilvr. Equally as morbid, I’m wondering where you found that. I’d like to see her before she tragically took her life.
I am curious, too.
I agree the girl looks so serene. And that was a really well written piece!
I saw this photograff when I was six yrs old and it stuck in my mind. looked for it for yrs till I found it on the net 5yrs ago .A 48yr search over. it has been on my wall ever sence it was nice to read and to find Eve”s name. one report by a policeman said he saw a white scarf slowly gentley falling to the ground when he heard A loud bang the timing suggests to me the scarf must have been around her collar when she removed her coat it reffed the scarf from her . in her left hand she has a death grip on some flowers very close too her broken but piecefull heart.
What kind of car was that? Pity…….
Strange … really strage. It inspires you to go for a suicide or atleast give a try.
I would a married her