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(11 a.m.) VATICAN CITY, Mar. 23. Holy Year pilgrims screamed in St. Peter’s Basilica today when a man leaped from the whispering gallery in the great dome 175 ft. directly above them.
They gaped, some believing they had seen a miracle, when the man failed to hit the marble floor but remained suspended above them, unhurt. .. _ The man, an Italian ex-Air Force officer, France Zucconi, had tied a rope under his arms to the gallery s railing before he leaped. As he dangled two letters dropped from his pockets. One was addressed to the Pope and the other to the Italian press asking the world to give him a chance to work —if the rope held. . , The police took him in custody.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXVII, Issue 23211, 24 March 1950, Page 5
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