2009 TV News Archives

George Reeves

June 25, 2009: A Look Back in Time - George Reeves' Death

Having been 50 years since the death of actor George Reeves, the LA Times has dug up newspaper articles from June 1959 in which Reeves' death and the ensuing coroner's reports were published.

Here's an excerpt from a report published in The Times on June 24, 1959...

    [Los Angeles County Coroner Theodore J. Curphey] ordered the autopsy and personally joined in performing it in response to published statements -- particularly by the actor's mother -- which questioned the suicide theory.

    "The examination of the bones of the head and brain," Curphey said, "establish the fact that the fatal wound was of close contact nature with the gun pressed against the skin, producing extensive fracturing of the skull and marked damage to the brain along the wound track.

    "From these findings, coupled with the investigative report supplied this office by the police, it is my opinion that the wound was self-inflicted," he added.

You can read the complete report, which includes newspaper scans, at the LA Times website.



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