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Title: Leslie Ray Raymond suicide note, last page, 1935
Date Created and/or Issued: December 6, 1935
1935-12-06
Publication Information: Los Angeles Times
Contributing Institution: UCLA, Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library
Collection: Los Angeles Times Photographic Archives
Rights Information: US
Description: Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.
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.
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
Type: image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_10796
ark:/21198/zz002h9wqr
Language: English
Subject: Suicides--California--Los Angeles
Raymond, Leslie Ray, 1893-1935
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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