Who is evelyn mchale

Evelyn McHill.

In 1947, 23-year-old Evelyn McHale committed suicide from the 86th-floor observation deck and landed in a United Nations limousine. A reporter from "Life" magazine captured this photo, and people also called this photo "the most beautiful suicide."

Evelyn McHale was born in Berkeley, California, one of nine children of Helen and Vincent McHale. Vincent was a bank examiner who moved to Washington, D.C., in 1930. Her parents are divorced. Vincent gained custody of all the children and moved to Tuckahoe, New York.

After high school, Evelyn joined the Women's Legion and was stationed in Jefferson City, Missouri.

She later moved to Baldwin, New York, where she worked as a bookkeeper for the Kita Engraving Company on Pearl Street. She met her fiancé, Barry Rhodes, a college student who had retired from the U.S. Army Air Force.

Evelyn Frances McHale (September 20, 1923 – May 1, 1947) was an American bookkeeper who graduated from the Empire State Building on May 1, 1947. He committed suicide by jumping off the 86th floor observation deck. A photo taken by photography student Robert Williams four minutes after her death has become an iconic suicide photo and has been called "the most beautiful suicide."