“David F. Sorgi My father was I. Russell Sorgi, his first name was Ignatius, he took that picture on May 7, 1942.

He was a photographer for the Buffalo Couier Express

He was on his way back to the Couier, returning from an assignment (A local plant had sold a good number of War Bonds, took a couple of pictures)

He noticed a police car speeding, he followed it and came across a crowd of people looking up, he saw what they were looking at.

There was a woman on the ledge of the Genesee Hotel, which he did get a picture of, then she jumped. He took the picture, not knowing if he got her. But he did, and a photo of her on the ground.

He rushed back to the Courier, the Editor was in the darkroom with him, hoping he got the pic in mid-air, and mostly that her “stuff” wasn’t hanging out.

At his retirement in 1976, the CEO of Kodak informed him that he won the Pulitzer Prize, but because he was Italian he couldn’t win it, after all we were at was with Germany, Japan and Italy. I was standing next to him at the retirement party when the statement was read, I saw the tears running down the face.

He was a Beautiful Man & a great Father, he guessed he took over 250,000 pictures.
He passed in 1995, He was a Pulitzer Prize to our Family.”