STUNT-MAN KILLED
Photographers Destroy Films (N.Z. Press Assn.—Copyright) SAN FRANCISCO, July 12. A photographer said yesterday that he bad destroyed movie films of a stunt-man's fatal plunge from the Golden Gate bridge. Ronald Miller, aged 27, from Lodi, California, dived from the bridge on Wednesday and disappeared beneath the bay waters as three photographers filmed the tragedy. “I’m sure I can make it,” Miller said before be went over the side to the water 220 feet below, in what appeared to be a perfect dive. He never came up. Mr Paul Kayfetz, a photographer, of Berkeley, said that the films had been destroyed. “We feel extremely bad as it is. We don’t want to exploit this,” he said. There have been 384 confirmed suicides from the bridge and only five people are known to have survived the leap. Mr Kayfetz said he had been reluctant about the project, but quoted Miller as saying he jumped safely from a bridge in Seattle and 88 feet down a waterfall in Hawaii.
Miss Kathy Krawcyzk. of Berkeley, Miller's fiance, was also watching the jump.
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Press, Volume CX, Issue 32349, 15 July 1970, Page 6
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