Owen Hart's death (Extremely rare pictures)

kashif

RIP OWEN!


THERE IS NO VIDEO OF OWEN FALLING ANYWHERE ON THE INTERNET. IF YOU SAY YOU HAVE SEEN IT, YOU ARE LYING OR MISTAKEN.

I do not believe there are any still photographs of Owen falling either. It is possible that some might exist, but I find it unlikely and here is why...

Owen fell a total of 78 feet. He reached a speed of 50 miles per hour. That translates to about 73 feet per second. That means he hit the ring in just over a second. It's not like in the movies where it seems like it takes 20 seconds for someone to fall that far. Since nearly the entire arena was not aware he was even up in the rafters, there is no way for someone to react fast enough to do anything.

Owen Hart 5/23/99
Kemper Arena, Kansas City, MO

Here is the ladder that goes to the catwalk just behind where I was sitting. Owen went up our aisle to get to the access point.



Here is a picture of the catwalk above me and Owen and his escort wearing street clothes over his wrestling outfit. You can barely make out his blue wrestling boots from his Blue Blazer costume. He is heading over to the rigging to prepare for his repel down to the ring. When Owen walked up my aisle I didn't even notice he was there. The girl in front of me said to her boyfriend she thought Jeff Jarrett was coming up our aisle. Then the boyfriend as well as me and my friend looked at the guy and saw it was Owen Hart. This may be the last known photo of Owen before he died.





In the next picture I have circled the curtain in the rafters. This is the area where Owen removed the street clothes he was wearing over his wrestling outfit. This is also where he was put in the harness to be lowered out down to the ring. He would step off the catwalk, hang for a second and then fall after the trigger that releases the harness accidentally gets tripped by something and the latch snaps.



I took this picture just seconds before Owen Hart fell. I have circled where the curtain is that he is standing behind. You can see on the screen they are still showing a clip of Owen hart talking with Kevin Kelly from an earlier interview. That video was also playing on the Titan Tron.



Just after I took the last picture Owen Hart fell to the ring. These are immediately after he fell out of the rigging when he stepped off the catwalk and fell. His head and legs hit the ropes right by the turnbuckle and then he bounced over into that position. At this moment he's been laying there for about 3 or 4 seconds maybe less.





At this point I had taken the last picture on my roll of film and was having to wait for it to rewind so I could change it out for a new roll. Maybe up to a minute of time passed. Before I was able to get these pictures of the emergency crew attending to Owen Hart. In this first one you can see Jerry Lawler standing outside the ring in front next to the man in the red shirt. Jim Ross sits alone at the announce table.





In the photo below Lawler has climbed in the ring and is looking on right in front of the referee (Jimmy Kordaris) with his hands on his head. That is also the ref that Owen supposedly yelled at as he fell to move so he didn't land on him. Any time I see him referee a match today I always think of this picture.





At this point they are preparing to move Owen out of the ring.





I am also including a few other photos I have found over the years. 2 are Associated Press photos that went out on the wire for papers who were going to run a story about it. Another is the front page of a news paper the next day.





Here I am including some scans of the Kansas City Star newspaper I purchased the next morning (Monday, May 24, 1999) before leaving the hotel to head to St. Louis for Raw the following night.

Conscience

This Reminds Of How Much This Sucked When It Happened.

richie75

thank you that was a good post

718LAX

thanks man

man i'll never forget that day