TRAGEDY TELEVISED
GIRL HURTLES TO DEATH CAMERA CATCHES SCENE (Reed. June 25, 9 a.m.) NEW YORK, June 24. A mobile television transmitter which was making “shots” at Radio City picked up a scene of unexpected tragedy, when the cameraman trained the instrument on the body of a young woman who plunged from the eleventh story of the Rockefeller Centre. The engineers were startled to see the hurtling figure cross the screen and hear a scream from the crowds through the microphone. i
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19666, 25 June 1938, Page 5
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