    
Title: John Warde Description: John Warde (John William Warde, 1911-July 26, 1938), a mentally disturbed 26-year-old, who had been standing on a ledge of the Hotel Gotham 17 floors above Fifth Avenue saying he intended to commit suicide, photographed as his body bounced off the marquee of the hotel seconds before he crashed to the ground; thousands watched from below on July 26, 1938 as police tried to talk him out of it; Patrolman Sgt. Charles V. Glasco tried that for hours and thought he was close to grabbing Warde or talking him down when, after nightfall, Warde leaped or fell to his death; Warde's tragedy was the basis for a 1951 film, Fourteen Hours, which had an untrue happy ending with Warde being talked down safely; Location: New York, New York, 1938 Keywords: film, Charles V. Glasco, Hotel Gotham, suicides, Fourteen Hours, motion pictures, movies, John Warde, 1930s. Orientation: Portrait Dimensions: 1200 x 1962 (2.35 MPixels) (1.64) Print Size: 10.2 x 16.6 cm; 4.0 x 6.5 inches File Size: 6.74 MB (7,071,274 Bytes) Resolution: 300 x 300 dpi Color Depth: 16.7 million (24 BitsPerPixel) Compression: None Image Number: 0000096623 Source: Jay Robert Nash Collection |
