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2 unusual facts about Edwin S. Shneidman


Edwin S. Shneidman

In 1970, he became Professor of Thanatology at the University of California, where he taught for decades.

As an intern, he studied schizophrenia, then thought to be environmentally caused, at the Veterans Administration hospital in Brentwood|.


Bernard Durning

He rose through the ranks of the studio as assistant to Edwin S. Porter, Charles Brabin, and John Hancock Collins.

David O. McKay School of Education

The David O. McKay School of Education began in 1913 as an integral part of BYU named the Church Teachers College with Edwin S. Hinckley as the first dean.

Desperate Poaching Affray

The film, along with Frank Mottershaw's film A Daring Daylight Burglary, is considered to have helped launch the chase sub-genre and influenced Edwin S. Porter's The Great Train Robbery.

Edwin S. Porter

He collaborated with several other filmmakers, including George S. Fleming.

In his Jack and the Beanstalk (1902) and Life of an American Fireman (1903) he followed earlier films by France's Georges Méliès and members of England's Brighton School, such as James Williamson.

Edwin S. Underhill

Underhill was elected as a Democrat to the Sixty-second and Sixty-third Congresses (March 4, 1911 – March 3, 1915).

Joseph J. Thorndike

American Heritage sold to McGraw-Hill in 1970, to private investor Samuel Pryor Reed of New York City in 1976, to Forbes in 1986, and to an independent publisher, Edwin S. Grosvenor, in 2007.


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