1975. Geraldo Rivera on his Good Night America program brings us the story of a man unable to pay his employees for 6 months, pushing him to the brink of suicide.
“But halfway across, Sasso stopped said he’d be right back and calmly walked out on a steel girder hundreds of feet above the entrance to New York Harbor…”
Geraldo recounts the story of this man driven to contemplate taking his own life during the holiday season. We learn that Mr. Sasso insisted on only speaking to Assistant District Attorney Thomas Sullivan, who later arrived at the scene and did succeed in getting him down off the bridge.
Later in studio Paul Sasso is brought in to tell his version of events, having been completing work for months but not getting paid by clients. Employees calling his home, talking to his wife, ringing the doorbell eventually drove him beyond what he could take.
This day, Geraldo’s television history.