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The Death of James Dean
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On the afternoon of 30 September 1955 James Dean and his mechanic, Rolf Weutherich, set out from Dean's house in Sherman Oaks in his new Porsche Spider. They were going north to Salinas to take part in a weekend race meeting. Just after five o'clock they stopped at Blackwell's corner, the junction of highways 33 and 466 to have a drink and to talk to some fellow racers who were also en route for Salinas. Before leaving one of them warned Dean to 'be careful of the cars turning in front of you. The Spyder's hard to see and it's getting dark.' An hour later Dean was dead, killed instantly when his car crashed with another at an intersection.
His death pitched him immediately and lastingly from teen idol status to that of one of the few truly legendary stars of the cinema. Thirty years on the obsession continues. He is still the ultimate icon of teenage rebellion. Thousands of fans make annual pilgrimages to Dean's home town, Fairmount in Indiana and to the intersection on highway 466 where he died. Dean's films still play to packed houses around the world, and his fans are renowned for their tireless devoation and seemingly insatiable appetite for any scrap of information or memorabilia relating to him.
The countless rumours and conflicting reports about the accident have ensured that the mystery surrounding Dean's death has never been fully explained. In The Death of James Dean Warren Newton Beath has meticulously gathered a mass of information about Dean's last day - he gives an almost hour by hour account of the events that preceded the crash and has drawn upon eyewitness accounts and many unpublished documents, including a transcript of the inquest, to present the most thorough and accurate account of Dean's death and the cult that it generated.
On the afternoon of 30 September 1955 James Dean and his mechanic, Rolf Weutherich, set out from Dean's house in Sherman Oaks in his new Porsche Spider. They were going north to Salinas to take part in a weekend race meeting. Just after five o'clock they stopped at Blackwell's corner, the junction of highways 33 and 466 to have a drink and to talk to some fellow racers who were also en route for Salinas. Before leaving one of them warned Dean to 'be careful of the cars turning in front of you. The Spyder's hard to see and it's getting dark.' An hour later Dean was dead, killed instantly when his car crashed with another at an intersection.
His death pitched him immediately and lastingly from teen idol status to that of one of the few truly legendary stars of the cinema. Thirty years on the obsession continues. He is still the ultimate icon of teenage rebellion. Thousands of fans make annual pilgrimages to Dean's home town, Fairmount in Indiana and to the intersection on highway 466 where he died. Dean's films still play to packed houses around the world, and his fans are renowned for their tireless devoation and seemingly insatiable appetite for any scrap of information or memorabilia relating to him.
The countless rumours and conflicting reports about the accident have ensured that the mystery surrounding Dean's death has never been fully explained. In The Death of James Dean Warren Newton Beath has meticulously gathered a mass of information about Dean's last day - he gives an almost hour by hour account of the events that preceded the crash and has drawn upon eyewitness accounts and many unpublished documents, including a transcript of the inquest, to present the most thorough and accurate account of Dean's death and the cult that it generated.
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