[Rescuers attempting to coax George Bentley down from a supporting cable on the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge from where he threatened to jump]

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Local identifier: AAD-2250
Title: [Rescuers attempting to coax George Bentley down from a supporting cable on the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge from where he threatened to jump]
Date: 1956 Feb. 29
Issuance: monographic
Collection: San Francisco Historical Photograph Collection
Type of Resource: still image
Physical Description: 1 photographic print: b&w.
Form: graphic
Use and Reproduction: Permission to use this image must be obtained from the San Francisco History Center, San Francisco Public Library.
Note: Folder: S.F. Bridges-Bay-Suicides.
Newscopy: "Scores of Bay Bridge motorists early this morning saw a Catholic priest and a highway patrolman coax a 21-year-old youth down from his precarious perch on a cable 300 feet over the water. Identified as George James Bentley of Tacoma, he was taken to the psychiatric ward of San Francisco Hospital for observation..."
LCSH Subjects: San Francisco (Calif.)--Photographs
San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge (Oakland and San Francisco, Calif.)
Keywords: Suicides
Bibliographic Number: .b10270711
Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12352/islandora:142067