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Jan 11, 2012 · This is the only known photo of Jocelyn Gordon Whitehead, the McGill University student who punched Houdini in his dressing room at the Princess Theater in Montreal on October 22, 1926.
Jocelyn Gordon Whitehead (25 November 1895 - 5 July 1954) was an American shoplifter. He is best known for punching Harry Houdini on 22 October 1926. This resulted, contributed, or covered up, Houdini's appendicitis that would end his life.
Jocelyn Gordon Whitehead was the McGill University student who punched Houdini in his dressing room at the Princess Theater in Montreal on October 22, 1926. Whitehead's blows either started, contributed, or covered-up the appendicitis that would take Houdini's life nine days later.
Oct 31, 2011 · According to eyewitnesses, Houdini was laying on a couch having his portrait sketched by a student when Jocelyn Gordon Whitehead, a McGill University student, entered the room. Whitehead asked to...
Mar 11, 2020 · Houdini lived for another six days, dying early in the afternoon of Sunday, October 31, 1926. The official cause of death was diffuse peritonitis, the result of a burst appendix. J. Gordon Whitehead’s sucker punch did not cause the appendicitis.
Mar 22, 2024 · They were later joined by a freshman student named Jocelyn Gordon Whitehead. While Smilovitch sketched Houdini, Whitehead chatted with the magician. After some talk about Houdini’s physical strength, Whitehead asked if it was true that he could withstand even the mightiest punch to the stomach.
Oct 31, 2016 · At some point, a student named J. Gordon Whitehead arrived and asked Houdini if it was true that he could resist hard punches to his abdomen—a claim the magician had supposedly made in public.
May 26, 2024 · Then on October 22nd, Houdini was resting in his dressing room at the Princess Theatre, icing his ankle, when a McGill University student named Samuel J. Smilovitch arrived with two friends, one of whom was Jocelyn Gordon Whitehead. What exactly transpired between Whitehead and Houdini that day remains disputed.
Witnesses to an incident at Houdini's dressing room in the Princess Theatre in Montreal on October 22, 1926, speculated that Houdini's death was caused by Jocelyn Gordon Whitehead (1895–1954), who repeatedly struck Houdini's abdomen.
Jul 4, 2005 · The Man Who Killed Houdini by Don Bell is a definitive investigation into the events that occurred in Harry Houdini's dressing room on Oct 22, 1926, and the man at the center of the fatal "attack," J. Gordon Whitehead.
