Robert Klara

Robert Klara is journalist based in Brooklyn, New York. His work has appeared in the New York Times, the Guardian and the Christian Science Monitor, among others. Klara is also the author of three books on American history.

On January 12, 1928, Ruth Snyder was executed at Sing Sing prison for murdering her husband, Albert.

How a New York Tabloid Captured the First Photo of an Execution by the Electric Chair

In January 1928, Tom Howard of the "Daily News" smuggled a camera into Sing Sing, where he snapped a picture of Ruth Snyder’s final moments

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