betraying-martyrs:May 1, 1947, 23 year-old Evelyn McHale wrote a note to her fiancé&nb
betraying-martyrs: May 1, 1947, 23 year-old Evelyn McHale wrote a note to her fiancé (‘He is much better off without me. I wouldn’t make a good wife for anybody’), left a small collection of items on the observation platform of the Empire State Building, then leapt to her death, landing on the roof of a United Nations limousine. This photo was taken in the immediately after by a passerby. -- source link