It was a new camera and the photographer only had 5 flash bulbs, yet there he was, on that fateful night, witnessing what would become the most devastating hotel fire in American history. Arnold Hardy ended up getting detained by the police that evening but not before he made history as we tell in this week’s Stories of Atlanta.
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Hardy’s final photo captured the horror of that December night in Atlanta. Amazingly, the woman who leaped from the 11th floor, Daisy McCumber, survived and lived until age 86, finally passing away in 1992.