Leslie Ray Raymond suicide note, last page, 1935
Item Overview
- Title
- Leslie Ray Raymond suicide note, last page, 1935
- Date Created
- December 6, 1935
- Date
- 1935-12-06
- Publisher
- Los Angeles Times
- Language
- English
- Collection
- Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Notes
- Description
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Last page of the suicide note left by Leslie Ray Raymond, who killed himself by asphyxiation by inhalation of automobile emission. He had been a radio announcer in Oakland, California, known as "Brother Bob." In his suicide note he confesses having an affair with his niece.
Reported in the article, "Suicide Ends Love Mix-Up. Radio Announcer's Farewell to Wife Hints Niece as 'Other Woman,'" Los Angeles Times, 7 Dec. 1935: 3. - Caption
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Text from negative sleeve: 3039. 12-6-35. Ray Raymond & copies of suicide note left by him. [Stamped:] DEC 11 1935.
Handwritten on negative: Suicide note left by Ray Raymond 12-6-35
Physical Description
- Extent
- 1 photograph
- Medium
- b&w nitrate negative
Keywords
- Genre
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cellulose nitrate film
news photographs
notes - Names
- Raymond, Leslie Ray, 1893-1935
- Location
- Los Angeles (Calif.)
- Resource type
- still image
- Subjects
- Suicides--California--Los Angeles
Find This Item
- Repository
- University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
- Local Identifier
- uclamss_1429_10796
- ARK
- ark:/21198/zz002h9wqr
- Manifest url
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Access Condition
- Rights statement
- copyrighted
- Rights Holder
- UCLA Charles E. Young Research Library Department of Special Collections, A1713 Young Research Library, Box 951575, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575. E-mail: spec-coll@library.ucla.edu. Phone: (310)825-4988
- Rights Country
- US
- Funding Note
- Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.
- License
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This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License .