Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds. 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. 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. 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
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Image
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b&w nitrate negative
Identifier
uclamss_1429_10796 ark:/21198/zz002h9wqr
Language
English
Subject
Suicides--California--Los Angeles Raymond, Leslie Ray, 1893-1935
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