Audio / Video

Thinking of suicide /

  • 01:00:11

Description

Bernard Mayes was an ordained Episcopal priest, a volunteer radio producer at KPFA, and the founder of the first suicide prevention hotline in America, started in San Francisco in 1963. Mayes published his autobiography Escaping God's Closet: The Revelations of a Queer Priest through the University of Virginia Press in 2001. In this program, founder of San Francisco Suicide Prevention and volunteer hotline manager Bernard Mayes discusses the psychology of suicide in America with Elsa Knight Thompson. They also discuss statistics and psychology of suicide in other cities and states in the country.

Details

Title

Thinking of suicide /

Creator

Mayes, Bernard, interviewee.

Thompson, Elsa Knight, interviewer.

Creator

Pacifica Radio Archive.

KPFA (Radio station : Berkeley, Calif.)

Published

Los Angeles :, Pacifica Radio Archives,, 1963.

Series

American women making history and culture

Type

spoken word

Extent

1 online resource.

Tracks

PRA_NHPRC1_BB0394_00_000_00.mp3 01:00:11

Linked Resources

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