Today’s Vivacious Yet Truly Morbid Fact!
“Adult” motion picture actors – a community not generally known for their precautionary lifestyle – are particularly frequent victims of the automotive crash exit. Death crash porn stars include among their illustrious ranks Veronica Blue (2000), Krysti Lynn (1995), Tommy Wilde (1994), Leo Ford (1991), and Tom Farrell (1993), who was killed by a hit-and-run driver while urinating by the side of the freeway. The archetypal instance of the genre took place on October 3, 1979, when “vivacious 29-year-old Playboy playmate” Claudia Jennings was involved in a fatal accident on the Pacific Coast Highway. This is a stretch of road notorious for its car crashes as well as for its ghost sightings. According to popular superstition, spirits are drawn to the water, and the Pacific Coast Highway is the road at the end of the earth.
Claudia Jennings: What, me vivacious?
Culled from: Car Crash Culture
Wretched Recommendation!
The other book I read recently is another fascinating work about Chicago’s morbid history…
City of Scoundrels: The 12 Days of Disaster That Gave Birth to Modern Chicago
by Gary Krist
A fascinating book that tells the story of 12 pivotal days in the life of Chicago during the summer of 1919. A blimp disaster, a transit strike, a race riot, and a child murder all conspire to throw the city into chaos, while the city was led by Big Bill Thompson, a man of great political skill and ambition (we can thank him for making much of the landmark Plan of Chicago a reality), but also deeply flawed in many ways, and ill-equipped to handle the race riot that resulted in numerous murdered Chicagoans who were guilty of nothing more than having the “wrong” color of skin in the “wrong” part of town. The books give great insight into the fractured race relations that are still roiling the city. An excellent book for enthusiasts of Chicago history.
5/5