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WOMAN FALLS 11 STOREYS SHOCK FOR OPERATORS (Received June 24, 6.10 p.m.) NEW YORK, Jane 23 A mobile television transmitter making shots at Radio City picked up a scene of unexpected tragedy, when the cameraman trained the apparatus on the body of a young woman who had plunged from the eleventh storey of the Rockefeller Centre. The television engineers were startled to see a falling body cross the screen, and hear a scream from the crowds through the microphone.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23073, 25 June 1938, Page 15
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