F 986.1.mp4 Apr 2026

For years, American media suppressed this footage, viewing it as too disturbing or as a "stigma" of suicide, rather than an act of survival in an unsurvivable situation.

Provide a timeline of how the of this footage changed over 20 years.

The footage contained in files like "f 986.1" eventually inspired the famous 2003 article by Tom Junod and the subsequent documentary The Falling Man .