‘Hold My Legs’: How Ernie Sisto Shot a Sky-High Disaster
In 1945, a B-25 bomber crashed into the Empire State Building. Photographer Ernie Sisto captured the event by leaning out of a building to get a close-up shot.
When a B-25 bomber crashed into the Empire State Building in 1945, a Times photographer leaned far out to get close up.
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