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

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
Date: 1979-02-13
Publisher: Los Angeles Times
Language: No linguistic content
Collection: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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.

Genre: news photographs
Names: O'Neil, Kitty, 1946-
Location: Sherman Oaks (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Longitude: 34.154396
Latitude: -118.469739
Resource type: still image
Subjects: People
Sports
Entertainment
Wonder Woman (Television program)
Stunt performers--California--Los Angeles

Repository: University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
Local Identifier: uclalat_1429_b1045_288946
ARK: ark:/21198/zz0002qs2q
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