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Did you know... that Kid Canfield (pictured) is the first known person to die live on radio?

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Did you know nomination

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The result was: promoted by Vaticidalprophet (talk) 12:59, 23 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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Canfield in a 1925 advert

... that Kid Canfield (pictured) is the first known person to die live on radio? "as far as anyone knows, the sudden death of Canfield, while speaking over a radio station, was the first of its king ever to happen" from: "Kid Canfield, Noted Reformed Gambler, Dies At Microphone". Bluefield Daily Telegraph. 13 March 1935. p. 1. Retrieved 11 May 2021.
- ALT1:... that Kid Canfield (pictured) claimed to have stopped gambling after his brother committed suicide at the table when he beat him at poker? "According to the legend he recounted so many times, Kid Canfield's notorious gambling career came to an end after he cheated several thousand dollars out of a sucker at a poker game in San Francisco. The beaten, depleted sap stood up from the table, pulled out a gun, placed a barrel to the side of his head, and pulled the trigger. That mark, Kid Canfield would reveal, turned out to be his brother" from: Abraham, Jeff; Kearns, Burt (2019). The Show Won't Go On: The Most Shocking, Bizarre, and Historic Deaths of Performers Onstage. Chicago: Chicago Review Press. p. 110. ISBN 978-1-64160-220-4. and "after playing for twenty eight hours the young man has lost all his money, $20,000, that did not belong to him, and looking at the picture of his mother, decides to end it all. "Kid" Canfield goes over to the young man, lying on the gambling table and seeing a picture in his hand, looks at it and dings that it is the picture of his own mother, and that the boy was his own brother and besides the body of his brother tears up the cards and swears never again will he touch a card as long as he lives" from: ""Kid" Canfield Here: Reformed Gambler". The Tuscaloosa News. 26 February 1915. p. 1. Retrieved 11 May 2021.
- ALT2:... that Kid Canfield (pictured) claimed to have won $350,000 from gangster Arnold Rothstein in a single card session? "Among his pigeons was Arnold Rothstein, the New York City mob kingpin who'd go on to fix the 1919 World Series. Kid Canfield claimed he took the racketeer for $350,000 in one sitting. He said it was no gamble - the cards were marked" from: Abraham, Jeff; Kearns, Burt (2019). The Show Won't Go On: The Most Shocking, Bizarre, and Historic Deaths of Performers Onstage. Chicago: Chicago Review Press. p. 110. ISBN 978-1-64160-220-4.

Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Richard Hatherill

Moved to mainspace by Dumelow (talk). Self-nominated at 19:44, 11 May 2021 (UTC).[reply]

... New enough, long enough, text referenced, image free and okay, QPQ provided, no copyvio issues. Hooks in article and followed by citations containing hook facts. I prefer the proposed ALT0. Thank you. Whispyhistory (talk) 06:59, 14 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]