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October 30th, 1929 A distraught and corrupted New York stock
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October 30th, 1929

A distraught and corrupted New York stock broker plummets to his death as law enforcement watches helplessly from the curb.

The man willingly leapt to his demise as specially tasked law enforcement attempted to infiltrated his office on suspicions of fraudulent investments.

Officer Duncan Fraser (seen in the rear of the photo) was on traffic watch when the incident unfolded, and is quoted as saying "Poor bastard. Tomorrow night have been a brighter day", which after widespread media attention is credited with the first time the term was popularized in pop culture terminology.

Now my question is, what did he mean by this? And would Hollywood ever make a movie about this?
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What's fraudulent investment banking compared to state-sanctioned investment banking? :^)
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It's a shame a cop couldn't get there in time to help him.

It's for the best though, as being involved in high level fraud like that is dangerous and if he talked to the cops his whole family would have been killed.

Any idea on how many stories he fell?
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It was a meme. There were no brokers jumping out windows, only a small increase in suicides in the following depression.
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>>1070653
Photo evidence would suggest it was anything but a meme.

One minute this man was circling prime investments in his news paper work his ball point pen, and the next he was flailing his arms as he fell head first to his death.

Must have been very terrifying, probably screamed the whole way down.
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>>1070653
>>1070721

Not him, but the popular depiction has always been of stockbrokers autodefenestrating because of massive losses on the stock market, not because they'd been caught engaging in fraudulent activity. So even if this was the seed of the meme, the meme remains a meme.
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>>1070721
there were a few isolated cases of this however, it was not a widespread phenomenon.
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Anybody have any more info on this? It's very interesting
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