"Wonder Woman" stuntwoman Kitty O'Neil leaping off Valley Hilton in Sherman Oaks, Calif., 1979

Item Overview

Title

"Wonder Woman" stuntwoman Kitty O'Neil leaping off Valley Hilton in Sherman Oaks, Calif., 1979

Photographer

Oliver, R. L.

Date Created

February 13, 1979

Publisher

Los Angeles Times

Language

No linguistic content

Collection

Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Notes

Caption

It wasn't a plane. It wasn't a bird. It wasn't even Wonder Woman. It was a stunt. On Monday, stuntwoman Kitty O'Neil plunged 127 feet from atop the Valley Hilton in Sherman Oaks into an inflated air bag at the pool deck--as the scene was being filmed for an upcoming two-hour special episode of the Wonder Woman series. A Warner Brothers spokeswoman said Miss O'Neil, who is deaf, established a new high fall record and broke her own previous mark of 120 feet. Before the leap, Miss O'Neil practiced by making two 10-story jumps. After the leap, she rode to the airport for a return flight to Bonneville, Utah, where she's attempting to set a new world land speed record in her jet powered car.

Physical Description

Extent

1 photograph

Dimensions

35 mm.

Medium

b&w negative

Keywords

Genre

news photographs

Subjects

People
Sports
Wonder Woman (Television program)
Stunt performers--California--Los Angeles
Entertainment

Names

O'Neil, Kitty, 1946-

Location

Sherman Oaks (Los Angeles, Calif.)

Longitude

34.154396

Latitude

-118.469739

Resource type

still image