Jumps to Death

Jumps to Death

Photograph

Associated Press

Maker
American

Jumps to Death

August 4, 1975
Gelatin silver print
Image: 22 x 15 cm
Overall: 25.2 x 20.7 cm
Gift of Vincent S. Jones
Inscriptions recto (printed caption): (LON-18) Johannesburg South Africa, Aug. 4--Jumps to death--Amos Gexella jumps to his death from his perch on the balcony of the sixth floor of an apartment building in Johannesburg Sunday. According to the local suicide prevention center head, the crowd that watched from below kept calling for Gexella to jump as he was trying to talk him to safety. (AP Wirephoto) (LL21915pw EDS:See also LON-17

verso (marker): Bad Taste
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